Redditor /u/special_evan shares a photo of a multi tool quite unlike the Leatherman PST in your pocket. It's labeled with the words Underwood and Haymarket. Underwood was a metalworker who operated from a shop on Haymark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/07/Check-Out-This-Cool-Nineteenth-Century-Multitool/While attending the Constitutional Convention in July of 1787, George Washington found the brutal summer heat unbearable and decided to purchase a "fan chair". This photo shows one owned by the museum collections of Moun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/13/This-Is-an-Eighteenth-Century-Fan-Chair/M.S. Rau is an antique store in New Orleans. It sells only the finest, most luxurious, and most unusual art and furnishings available. It collection includes this mechanical marvel: the Hupfeld Phonolist-Violina Model B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/13/This-Antique-Music-Machine-Automatically-Plays-a-Piano-and-3-Violins-Simultaneously/Leaving aside electric pencil sharpeners, how do these machines work? The simplest modern pencil sharpner, in which you twist the pencil, uses what I've learned is called a manual prism. If you turn a crank, then you're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/26/Anique-Pencil-Sharper-Very-Different-from-Modern-Designs/King Charles Albert (1798-1849) of Sardinia-Piedmo... ...ou behind the ultimate power desk for your office. Antiques expert Bill Rau takes us on a tour of the desk an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/10/24/This-Amazing-Antique-Desk-Is-Filled-with-Hidden-Compartments/Duane Scott Cerny started out in the business of c... ...untered, both alive and deceased, while obtaining antiques for his store.
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/06/Hoarders-Hauntings-and-Two-Headed-Cows-Dealing-with-Dead-Peoples-Things/In 1965, the first bar called Thank God It’s... ...e decorations featuring Tiffany lamps, ferns, and antiques all over. The antiques were inspired by Cracker Barrel, and in turn TGI... ...rniture in natural woods and a few well-appointed antiques like framed sepia-toned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/13/The-Death-of-Flair-As-Fridays-Goes-Minimalist-What-Happens-to-the-Antiques/For some time, the common image of antique collect... ...classify. A new word sprang up to describe these antiques : “Mantiques.” Collectors Weekly talke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/15/How-Mantiques-Make-It-Cool-for-Average-Joes-to-Shop-and-Decorate/The Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy possesses this marvelous work of Sixteenth Century craftsmanship. It is an astronomical compendium, which is a collection of astronomical instruments. This example has three compartm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/17/A-Beautiful-Antique-Astronomical-Multitool/(Photo: Wartski)The great jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) made 50 ornately jeweled eggs for the nobility of Imperial Russia. A few of them have been lost to time. But one of those lost prizes has now been r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/22/33-Million-Faberge-Egg-Discovered-in-Flea-Market/