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One Cottage Industry Whose Wares Have Proved Timeless (4/27/09)

As early as the 1760s, several English companies were making cottages in both porcelain and pottery, to be used as pastille burners. (A pastille is a small pellet of an aromatic paste, used either to fumigate or deodorize.) The small cone of something like charcoal or gum arabic was saturated with the fragrance to be used, placed on a base, lit, and covered with the cottage. The perfume rose up the chimney and helped rid the room of the many odors always present in homes of the day.

Over the last few years collecting cottages, especially those made by the company Dept. 56—such as the Original Snow Village … More >>

Antique Maps: Roads to the Past (4/20/09)

Antique maps are a connection between the past and present. These often striking collectibles show how the world was or … More >>

The Shakers’ Purity Extended to Style (4/15/09)

Editor’s Note: The Shakers were, unquestionably, a very strange sect, but that didn’t stop them from producing what are now … More >>

Art of the Glaze: Collecting North Carolina Art Pottery (4/8/09)

This unsigned North Carolina ring handle art pottery vase with decorative ring lug handles on the top sides is advertised as made by Arthur Ray Cole in the 1940s.

By A. Everette James, Jr. (All items shown in this article are availabe for purchase through GoAntiques.com. Click on the photos … More >>

Tips for Keeping Collectibles Safe (4/1/09)

By Dr. Stephenie Slahor Whatever makes up your collection, be it art, antiques or collectibles, you want to enjoy it. Whether … More >>

Folk Art: So Much More than Grandma Moses (3/25/09)

Editor’s note: The charm of folk-art collectibles reaches far beyond rural artists. Learn what folk art really is, and see … More >>

Ferraris: Fast-and-Furious Yellow from Hot Wheels (11/15/08)

Ferraris usually come in red, but Hot Wheels produced a line of the famous Italian race cars in yellow, which … More >>

The El Camino in 1:64 (2/11/08)

by Doug Breithaupt For many years, fans of Chevrolet’s El Camino have had little to collect in small-scale diecast. That has … More >>

Coming of Age: Toys in Early America (7/31/07)

A drawing of a largely unclothed Indian girl with her new doll.

American toys actually predate recorded history. American Indian children played with the smaller versions of their parents’ items, right down … More >>

All Kinds of Smoke Can Be Hazardous to Art and Antiques (6/27/07)

Smoke is, in essence, energy that does not burn completely during a fire. Combustion occurs, giving off heat, light, carbon … More >>

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