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Imagine a breadbox-sized box with a round metal disk inside, a music box with a coin slot for a nickel. In 1900 one found this box in taverns, pool halls, …

Art Deco clocks are special to me. My mom recently passed “out of human time” and into the next realm at the age of 96. She collected clocks, especially those …

PS asked about a pair of silver stirrups, necessary for riding a horse. Imagine a time before cars in our world, and we rode horses—or they pulled us. For thousands …

MC inherited a pottery floor vase, a quirky work from the mid-1970s by genius Santa Maria potter, William “Bill” Shinn (1932-2011). Did Shinn get inspiration for the design from a …

Why did people use washbats, a washboard, washbox, washing dollies, peggylegs, possers, posssticks, dollypegs, peggy, maiden, plunger, ponches, and punchers? They used these to wash clothes with or without a …

2019: what a year! The art and design world CHANGED that year, and we thought it had changed forever. More of us want to forget the year 2019 because important …

KC sent me a “relief” three-dimensional image of an eagle. This work created out of plaster, a plaque, boxed in the image on three sides measures seventeen by twenty-eight inches. …

JE owns a wonderful 1900s vintage Japanese necklace composed of faces of benevolent gods. The links are porcelain on sterling. The faces, and the gods they belong to, are important …

Imagine a clock that winds itself based on changes in atmospheric pressure. This Atmos clock doesn’t need a human. It winds itself with the help of a sealed bellows of …

Frightening yet beautiful, this wooden and polychromed (painted with many colors) carved Bapende mask from Zaire belongs to a group collected by a world-famous celebrity. The current owner asked, “Where …