Now in its 37th year, Milford Antiques Shows, at the Hampshire Hills Sports and Fitness Club, announces its 2013 show dates. Read More +
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Show promoter association bids visitors Welcome to Brimfield
Organizers of America’s best-loved destination for antiquing are gearing up for the start of the Brimfield antiques show season. See what’s on tap for 2013. Read More +
Happy tunes at Music City Shows: Customers and dealers sing the praises for Nashville’s trio of antiques shows
Happy tunes were sung by customers, dealers and even the show promoters at Nashville’s Antiques Week as results were tallied after the Feb. 13-16, 2013, events. Read More +
An American Art Form: Exploring the emergence of leaded glass lamps
In Lessons from a Lampmaster, columnist Joe Porcelli expounds on the emergence and evolution of leaded glass lamps as an American decorative art form. Read More +
Furniture Detective: Wood Art: Eclectic Aesthetic style bridges Victorian and Arts & Crafts
Since the definition of art is open to interpretation, one man’s art might be another man’s junk. The same holds for furniture, and the Furniture Detective explains. Read More +
10 Things You Didn’t Know About: Vintage Telephones
As a society, we spend a tremendous amount of time on our phones, but there are a few surprising things about the telephone’s past that you may not know. Read More +
Speaking of Dolls: Recognizing the beauty of a good name
New man made materials used by the military in World War II gave the doll industry a new platform, but it was a series of unique partnerships that gave it rise. Read More +
Rare blue-green Plantation Bitters bottle sets new auction record at $46,000
The highlight of Glass Works’ online bottle auction was a common bitters bottle in a rare color, ‘St. Drake’s Plantation Bitters’, that sold for $46,000. Read More +
Behind the Gavel: Clearing inventory with unique solutions
Creative solutions and innovative actions are the name of the game when you’re in business for yourself, and here Wayne Jordan introduces you to an innovative solution seeker making big strides in the antiques industry! Read More +
Dickens book collection sells for $70,800: 17 times high estimate
Even Scrooge might have eked out a curmudgeonly smile on December 6, 2012, at Waverly Rare Books, as the hammer fell on a collection of 30 leather-bound books comprising the “Works of Charles Dickens.” Read More +