After World War II, collecting whimsical ceramic dishes, accessories, and figurines became very popular in the U.S. -and for a while they were all made in America. Some designers became more popular than others, and thei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/15/who-killed-american-kitsch/Ryan Matthew Cohn is an artist, antique collec... ...ector, blogger, and a buyer for the store Obscura Antiques and Oddities in New York City. He makes art objec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/31/ryan-matthew-cohns-creepy-antiques/In the 1960s, music videos were shown in coin-operated machines from a French company called Scopitone. Strange and somewhat exotic visuals were added to pop songs to draw viewers to the machines, which were introduced t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/scopitone-the-visual-jukebox-of-the-60s/Uranium glass isn't radioactive enough to be dangerous, but it still has the unique ability to glow under the black light. WebEcoist has a fascinating article showing a variety of uranium glass creations for your vie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/07/10-cool-objects-made-from-uranium-glass/When he was a boy, John Weber, 70, was given an old cup by his grandfather. He assumed that it was just a worthless piece of brass and occasionally used it for target practice with his air rifle. Eventually, Weber deci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/11/man-discovers-that-the-old-cup-that-hes-been-using-as-a-plinking-target-is-worth-99000/Hmm, this looks like someone doing a steampunk... ...n of Star Wars, doesn't it? Wrong! These are real antiques . This pair of early rescue masks, shown above, d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/13/victorian-star-wars/The Opium Museum is, at the heart, about the t... ...Museum is, at the heart, about the trade in rare antiques , since opium smoking paraphernalia was outlawed....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/the-opium-museum/The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey has a permanent display called "Musical Machines & Living Dolls", featuring over 700 antique automata, including quite a few fancily-dressed mechanical monkeys from France. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/the-monkey-aristocracy/Last weekend I stopped into Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, MI. I first heard of this mesmerizing monstrosity on one of my favorite websites: roadsideamerica.com. This was not my first visit to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/27/marvins-marvelous-mechanical-museum/Bernice Gallego of Fresno, California had no idea what the baseball card she found in her attic might be worth, so she listed it on eBay with a starting bid of $10. After a few inquiries about the card, she pulled the au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/08/139-year-old-baseball-card-found/
