10 Tips For Family Vacations To Remember
Thinking of taking a family vacation by car this year so you can go antiquing along the way? Getting there is half the fun — or at least half the story you and the kids remember (complain about?) years...
View ArticleAntique Memorial Book Of Victorian Mourning Hair Braids
At an estate sale I recently was lucky enough to get this little, unassuming, antique book… Plain brown boards, penciled notes and a math problem… A slim 6 and one-half inches 3 and one-half by inches....
View ArticleGreat Way To Display Collectible Travel Postcards & Souvenirs
I spotted this clever display at an antique mall and I thought it would be great for use in the home too: a simple vintage wall shelf, with the vintage postcards in the little spaces for knick knacks —...
View ArticleUsing Antique Images & Vintage Graphics To Make Things Without Ruining Your...
If you’re like me and enjoy collecting and have a creative streak, you’ve probably faced the issue of balancing your delight in making things with your collector’s desire to keep the integrity of your...
View ArticleVintage Tip For Organizing Photographs & Ephemera
This is a vintage snapshot or photograph storage tip from Edward O’Connor of Mineola, NY, I found published in Household Help, Fifth Series of Hints & Time Savers for the Home (offered by New...
View ArticleFoxy Vintage Postcard Stories
Many people collect postcards for what’s on the front… Maybe they collect real photo postcards, or vintage images of animals on postcards, or antique images of cities… Maybe they collect by artist or...
View ArticleFashion Crimes: A Vintage Scrapbook
At first look, this vintage fashion catalog from the 1930s is just a cool piece for ephemera and fashion collectors… But as you know, you should never judge a book by it’s cover! This is an incredible...
View ArticleThe Wonder Of Collecting
On shows like Oddities there’s much talk about cabinets of curiosities, but you needn’t have a fancy cabinet — or anything morbid, or even Victorian, to display in it — to arouse curiosity. In fact, I...
View ArticleThe Top Three Online Content Curation Sites For Collectors
Most collectors are aware that they are curating their collections — or at least they should be! But now, there’s online curation, or more specifically, online content curation. Unlike blogging or...
View ArticleGhost Signatures and Diamond Dealers
The front page of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette for Tuesday, August 3rd, 1920, brought a mysterious story: Diamond Merchant’s Sudden Death Closes Pages In Famous ‘Ghost Book’ Chicago, Aug. 5 — The sudden...
View ArticleA Vintage Mae West Scrapbook
Today’s scrapbooks are filled with photographs of family & friends, complimented by decorative papers and supplies purchased for the sole act of creating fantastic looking photo albums. But once...
View ArticleThe Joy and Tribulation of The Antique Dealer
No Egrets Antiques has just completed our third antique show of this new year. Our first was held in West Bend, WI in January. Cold, but the snow kept away and turn-out was very high! As always, the N....
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe Still Alluring At 90
I continually swear that I’m not going to write, again, about Marilyn; but here I am again… I may have been able to to get away with a wistful smile & a re-Tweet or two in the honor of her 90th...
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