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Antique Trends in 2020

Antique Trends in 2020

The great thing about antiques is that with each passing year new items and collectible categories age into this coveted ...
Acclaimed artist Todd McFarlane brings his creator-owned character Spawn together with Marvel’s top-selling Spider-Man, the character that propelled him to fame, on the golden anniversary edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.

Comic Character Collectibles: April 2020

Spider-Man Meets Spawn to Celebrate Overstreet’s 50th by J.C. Vaughn It has been mentioned more than once in this space ...
Glass plate with the Libbey logo inscribed.

Great Collections: April 2020

The Glass City Museum: How Edward Drummond Libbey’s Glass Collection Started the Toledo Museum of Art Edward Drummond Libbey was ...
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Great Collections: March 2020

Inheriting a Collection of Musical Note: An Interview with Jane Porter Jane Porter with her mother, 2011 When her mother ...
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Exploring Antique Technologies: March 2020

Using Technology to Keep your Antiques Safe By Kary Pardy The restored Rothko murals were installed for the November 16, ...
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What's Selling on eBay: March 2020

By Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod These examples show that eBay has quite a following in the collector marketplace. It ...
1878 Edison Phonograph Patent Image

Antiques Peek: March 2020

Buying Patented By Jessica Kosinski Anyone who collects antiques will tell you that determining value can involve several important factors ...
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Publisher's Corner March 2020

By Maxine Carter-Lome Celebrating 20 Years of Living and Loving Antiques This issue marks the 20th Anniversary of the Journal ...
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Exploring Antique Technologies: February 2020

No Matter Which Direction the Wind Blows, We Still Love American Weathervanes By Kary Pardy This ca. 1890-1899 wood fish ...
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Great Collections: February 2020

Make No Little Plans: A.B. Wells, A Collector of Americana Excerpts from osv.org on their founding collector extraordinaire Old Sturbridge ...
Television Academy Foundation Launches 2020 Spring Auction

Television Academy Foundation Launches 2020 Spring Auction

The Television Academy Foundation launched its 2020 Spring Auction featuring once-in-a-lifetime television experiences for fans including exclusive set visits, celebrity ...
February 2020 Issue: A Solute to Americana

February 2020 Issue: A Solute to Americana

By Maxine Carter-Lome The best definition of Americana that I have come across is, “material ephemera of the distant American ...
What's Selling on eBay: January 2020

What's Selling on eBay: January 2020

by Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod Discovered during the clean out of a local estate. Approximately 8 inches x 7 ...
January 2020 Issue: Defining Vintage

January 2020 Issue: Defining Vintage

The word “vintage” is ascribed to items in the range of at least 20, but more appropriately 50 years old ...
Title image: Bandai’s mid-1950s Ford station wagon was around 12 inches in length and fitted with a friction motor. This near-mint example with original box sold for $305 in a 2020 Vectis auction. Photo courtesy Vectis Auctions Ltd.

Americans in Japan: The Golden Age of the Japanese Tinplate Toy Car

By Douglas R. Kelly A vacation or a business trip, for me, just isn’t complete without at least one visit ...
The Football 78 red sticker packet cover for the UK depicted a bicycle-kicking footballer in front of a Union Jack background. That design – only the colors would change – became iconic over the next decade as it was repeated all the way through to Football 88.

Panini Stickers: The Brand in Next-Generation Ephemera

By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Trading cards and stickers are not new to the collectibles world or ephemera collectors. Nor are ...
1966 Mr and Mrs Clause

Annalee Dolls – A Holiday Tradition

by Jessica Kosinski There are many traditions and objects associated with the holidays. Some start out regional and then slowly ...
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Horology in Folk Art

By Bob Frishman This article was first published in the NAWCC journal. This abbreviated version of the original article has ...
Docent marking the first permanent location of Williamsburg’s historic First Baptist Church on South Nassau Street, spring 2020. A partnership led by First Baptist Church and Colonial Williamsburg has resumed archaeological investigation of the site, which last took place in 1957. Let Freedom Ring Foundation

An Archaeological Project Attempts to Find Clues About the Beginnings of One of America’s Oldest Black Churches, but Where Is The Story?

By The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation staff A version of this article first appeared in the winter 2021 issue of Trend ...
Sports Fans Collect

Sports Fans Collect

You can always spot a sports fan in the crowd - whether at the stadium or on the street – ...
This enormous ca. 1755 armchair is ambitious in both scale and design. Its bold contours are enabled by the dense mahogany that came from the colonized West Indies. Distinct in its beautiful grain and light-reflecting sheen, mahogany became eighteenth-century Britain’s “national wood.” Thomas Chippendale’s design for this “French Chair,” published in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1754), specified that it “must be covered with Tapestry, or other sort of Needlework.” Here, the needlework depicts a scene of the Annunciation, the feast day when contracts for trades and craftspeople were renegotiated. photo: The Met

Chair Styles: Take a Seat … or Two … or Three …

by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Everyone has their favorite chair, whether it is an ergonomic masterpiece or an overstuffed recliner ...
The National Museum of Funeral History unveiled its new, highly anticipated George H.W. Bush Memorial Exhibit, honoring the 41st President of the United States and his wife, Barbara Bush.

The National Museum of Funeral History: The Heritage of Death Care

While not a favorite topic for discussion, “death care is one of man’s oldest professions,” according to Robert L. Waltrip, ...
Hoban’s 1793 north elevation drawing reduced the building from three to two floors because of a concern that there was not enough stone at the government quarry to complete both the Capitol and the President’s House. – White House Historical Association, Original Plans Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society Title image: This drawing has also been used in the title image of this article and has been edited for clarity of viewing

Building the White House

By Lina Mann, Historian, The White House Historical Association “I wake up every morning in a house that was built ...
In 2020 we closed on a c.1740 house in Brookfield, MA

Our (Very) Old House

By Kaitlin Servant In January 2020 we said goodbye to the house we had lived in for the past ten ...