AntiquesQ&A
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Ground to Perfection

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  QUESTION:  I love a good cup of coffee and grind my own beans. Today’s coffee grinders are sleek and efficient, but antique coffee grinder...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

A Natural Air Freshener

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  QUESTION: While browsing a flea market a couple weekends ago, I discovered a strange sort of glass bud vase on one of the tables. It seeme...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Improving Time

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  QUESTION: My grandfather loved old clocks and had quite a few. My favorite was a type of wall clock that looked like a banjo. In fact, he...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

A Little Box Named After the Roman Goddess of Fire

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  QUESTION:  A few months ago, I was out antiquing and came across several little silver boxes in an antique shop. They didn’t seem to have ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Gaudy Welsh—Cheerful, Cheap, and Colorful

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  QUESTION:  My grandmother loved to collect pieces of china. Among her pieces, which have now been passed on to me, are several brightly co...
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Bob Brooke
Writing has been my life and my work for the last 30 years. During that time, I've had the opportunity to explore a variety of subjects, researching many of them on travels to over 70 countries. I’ve also been an avid collector of antiques and collectibles and specialize in writing about antiques. My antiques articles have appeared in many antiques and consumer publications, including British Heritage, AntiqueWeek, American Antiquities Journal, and Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine. I have also published two books on antiques, How to Start Your Own Antiques Business in Your Home and Recognizing and Refinishing Antiques for Pleasure and Profit, both from Globe Pequot Press. Throughout my writing career, I've produced nearly 4,000 articles and 15 books. I write non-fiction because I feel that fact is infinitely more interesting than fiction. However, in one of my latest books, Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure: The Outer Banks from Globe Pequot Press, I crossed the boundary between nonfiction and fiction, writing an historical narrative of the harrowing disasters in the seas off North Carolina.
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