Antiques

The Hitchcock Chair Company was an industry leader and innovator in both the 19th and 20th centuries. After a fascinating history, it folded—again—in 2006.

A 7 1/2-inch tall Russian vase, which was cataloged with a $600 to $900 estimate, didn’t end its auction until it hit $141,450 – 157 times its high estimate.

The holy city of Jerusalem has inspired artists and craftsmen for thousands of years. Their creations often span time and space, like the city itself.

A Daytona Beach, Florida, museum may hold the best collection of American antique furniture south of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Two rediscovered marble busts by the 18th century French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon sold for a combined $1.475 million at the Fine Art & Antiques Auction held March 23 by Cottone Auctions.

Facing the prospect of impending death, Civil War soldiers fashioned their own ID tags from coins and tokens. These Civil War ID tags are collectible today.

The highlight of Pook & Pook's June 15 online antique toy sale is part two of the Morton A. Hirschberg Collection of steam toys. Hirschberg is a former president of the Antique Toy Collectors of America.

Heritage Auctions will make its expansive offerings of fine & decorative art more accessible than ever before when the firm launches monthly Fine Art auctions in the summer of 2019.

A rare U.S. gold coin struck at the San Francisco Mint in 1857 (recovered five years ago from a California Gold Rush shipwreck) set a record auction price.

If you were late to Saturday’s session of Eldred’s two-day spring sale of art and antiques April 5-6, you missed a few of the day’s most exciting lots ...

One Ruby Lane shop I come back to time and again is Allie's Antiques. The seldom-found items are usually in excellent condition and give me a serious case of "the wants."

Milk cans – used to store and ferry dairy products from farm to market – have been incorporated into home decor and have become a collector’s dream.

Author Steve Woit’s Fly Fishing Treasures: The World of Fly Fishers and Collecting is a colorful review of the area where collecting and fly fishing meet.

Complimentary antique appraisals from the Antique Trader staff of appraisers is a service reserved exclusively for Antique Trader magazine subscribers. In this installment: "Lady" lamps and cut glass candy dishes.

Once you decide you have an interest and want to give it a go, here are the places and steps you can take in your pursuit of studying furniture.

TV shows like ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ have made collecting vintage barware popular for young and old alike.

Around 1900, as homes were spreading outward from the inner city, lawns began to come into vogue. To keep those green spaces green, all sorts of different lawn sprinklers were developed.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has recently added several important objects of Judaica to its collections. Objects that represent the early Anglo-American experience have also been acquired.

On April 15, 2019, a fire broke out at Notre-Dame de Paris. The fire destroyed the cathedral’s spire and large sections of its roof. We can still see how the landmark once was in vintage and antique postcards.

Collectors say it’s the sheer simplicity of dexterity games and puzzles that helped them survive when other fun games landed in the dustbin of history.

For the enthusiast and collector, a large vintage and antique cast iron cookware auction is akin to a chocoholic diving into a pool of dark chocolate.

Fred Taylor’s introduction to Furniture French came when he and his wife were furnishing their first house. Learn about furniture pieces with French names.

For each car painted from the 1950s-1970s, another layer of enamel was added to the hardened mosaic of colored slag that would come to be known as Fordite.

A monumental 8-foot Japanese cloisonné vase created by Japan for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair was auctioned for $135,000 by Clars Auction Gallery in February 2019.

An important Russian bronze may sell for as much as $120,000 during an Eldred's auction scheduled for April 5-6 in East Dennis, Mass.

Collectors are once again flocking to own the hand-crafted Boehm porcelain birds that have been popular with presidents, royalty and heads of state.