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As a kid JB admired a silver, now tarnished, handled basket with a clear glass lining. She calls it her grandmother’s German silver bride’s basket. It consists of a filigreed …

Young family guy RT wrote that he likes 1940s lithograph prints in a realist style. He picked up online two nudes by Emil Weddige (1907-2001). RT wants to know about …

MN enjoyed buying storage lockers whose owners defaulted on payments. He bought one in the early 2000s in San Diego and stuffed boxes of books and papers into his own …

In my Lake Arrowhead shed lurks a beast, a four-hundred-pound vintage butcher block table. During one of its many laborious moves, it lost four legs and now only the massive …

A reader found inspiration in my article about a successful donation of a hammer to the Zagreb Museum of Broken Relationships. GG wants to donate a miniature haunted spirit house. …

Let me tell you the story of Mom’s Doree hatbox. In 1973 my father’s bad taste led him to buy my mother a makeover session at Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door …

RM owns a six-hundred piece, fifty-years-in-the-making cowboy clothing collection with vintage leather jackets and tooled western belts. She’s seventy now, so it’s time to sell these objects. She’s in luck! …

JE owns a vintage Vaughn Claw hammer, a “California Framer,” circa 1940. She used it this January for a very specific reason. This Christmas she received a handmade wooden birdhouse …

A collector of authentic Hermes Carre Foulard silk twill hand-colored scarves frames them for her wall. Others she keeps in their distinctive slim orange boxes. By 1937 Hermes designed for …

Artnet tempted me with a list of the Art World’s most compelling movies about art of 2025. I found them all so good I wanted to share. These films deal …