Like Nippon, Occupied Japanese objects are increasingly growing in value and collectibles, and more dealers are scrambling to provide these items to their buyers. Identification is simple of course the...
Frank and John Fenton were brothers who founded the Fenton Art Glass Company in 1906 in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. The endeavor was only a decorating store when it began, its operation in July of 1905, and using...
This 20th century company is well-known both for its artware and universal lines of tableware, as well as ornamental pieces and down-to-earth pottery of numerous kinds. The majority of its fine artware which...
McKinley Tariff Act from 1890, law establishing record-high tariffs on many imported items, sponsored by Representative William McKinley, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the act was designed to...
Nathaniel Currier began his profession in lithography in 1828. At that juncture, he was apprenticed, at the age of 15 years old, to Pendleton of Boston, one of the earliest American lithographic firms...
Sam Butcher the artist and creator behind the Precious Moments collection and manufactured by Enesco. The collection illustrates his depiction of the teardrop-eyed children made of porcelain bisque and formed...
Certain characteristic of Bakelite are unmistakable and the collector should become familiar with the weight, feel, and appearance. Confirming whether a piece is in fact Bakelite can be a complex bona fide...
This was the earliest true multi-color printing technique pioneered by Godefrey Engleman of France, first commercialized in 1830. Previously, colors had been applied by an artist with a study hand and...
Salt cellars, sometimes called the salt, open salts or salt dips, they are the serving dishes from which salt was served with miniature spoons. Early salt was coarse and clumped together in humid weather,...
Acuminating a collection of objects cannot be compiling just by going out haphazardly to acquire antiques. The antique market is enormously complex. The cost of a piece is determined by objective criteria...