When American Colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they were protesting taxation without representation. But you might be surprised to learn that the tea they dumped would have been worth about $2 mil...

Anyone can make a pinback button these days- my ki...  ...ld pick up others now and then at flea markets or antiques stores, but before the last 25 or so years with t...

The Industrial Revolution ushered in an avalanche of inventions, of machines and gadgets that sometimes made our lives better, but often were as useless as snake oil. There was no shortage of people who rushed in to capi...

Lisa Hix and Hunter Oatman-Stanford of Collectors...  ...Mercanteinfiera in Parma. It’s the largest antique fair in Italy, a country where antiques for sale can be several hundred years old. Over a...

Have you ever heard of a tussie-mussie? Spellcheck certainly hasn’t. Before cities had adequate fresh water and sewers, when horses filled the roads, the air was full of the foul smells of body odor and worse. A tu...

(Photo: Hansons Auctioneers)According to the family, it had been acquired by a now-deceased relative in the 1930s. For many years, the vase was used as a doorstop at their home in Birmingham, UK.But this is no ordinary v...

The auction house Cooper Hewitt offers for sale th...  ...t get the name "cockfight chair"? The Handbook of Antique Chairs explains that "Fops would recline on the c...

(Image: PBS)How do the appraisers on the televisio...  ...S)How do the appraisers on the television program Antiques Roadshow know the value of the vast multitude of...  ...u’ve got to get on the internet and look up Antiques Roadshow; that weird pot you made is on there.&rd...  ...dshow; that weird pot yo...

Have you ever seen a “page turner” for...  ...Zealand professor Ian Spellerberg collects office antiques . A few years ago, he bought a blade that was purp...  ...although it can be hard to distinguish them in an antique store. Spellerberg shares what you need to know a...

From 1728 to 1878, the Socci family of Ponte a Ema...  ...it and the other surviving models at Clostermann Antiques .-via Core 77