QUESTION: When I was a little boy, my mother used to take me shopping with her in our little midwestern town. On the way to the emporium, ...

  QUESTION: For the last several years I’ve begun to purchase various pieces of Mid-Century Modern furniture and accessories. While doing s...

  QUESTION: This summer while vacationing on Cape Cod, I spent some time antiquing. In one of the shops I discovered an unusual chair. It lo...

  QUESTION: My grandmother loved to sew. She made her own clothes and some of those of her family. Over the years, she assembled quite a co...

  QUESTION: As I browse the booths of antique shows in my area, I’ve come upon small ochre-colored wooden boxes in various shapes with a bla...

  QUESTION: My grandfather worked as a conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad. When he died some years ago, I inherited his pocket watch. F...

  QUESTION: When I was a kid in the 1950s, I received a View-Master stereoscope for Christmas. It came with several reels of photos, plus I...