Picking for Pleasure: Understanding Antiquing Acquisitions

It seems fitting that my last two posts were about buying likenesses of houses. Because a year ago this month, Tyler and I bought an actual ...

Strolling through Philadelphia's hip Fishtown after delving into a sweet Halloween ice cream treat at Weckerly's Ice Cream last Sat...

Shuffling back to our car last April in Old City Philadelphia after visiting the supposed (I should just believe the sign) last remaining st...

As Tyler and I were leaving our favorite antique mall in Lewes, DE, last summer, I plucked a photograph jauntily resting on a table with oth...

Browsing the aisles of a favorite antique mall in Lewes, DE, a few weeks ago, I came across a 1958 "how-to-get-there" street guide...

I cannot resist desiccated ephemera. Nicole Belolan's Collection And so that's why I came home from the Allentown Paper Show ...

Meet Uncle Bill Moody. Meet Uncle Bill Moody and  his friends. Nicole Belolan's Collection I bought this gem, labeled ...

Walking toward the exit of the enchanting Pennsylvania Farm Show a few weekends ago, Tyler asked me for a final time whether I wanted to ha...

Scanning my Twitter feed back in December, I got excited when I spotted what looked like an early twentieth century photograph of a man wear...

I love this photograph. I can't quite make out who and what are pictured in the dozens of photographs arrayed on the wall. But t...

Last year, I mentioned an article from the 1970s that profiled a woman named Jenny Bell Whyte who made modern clothing out of historic cove...

Flipping through the finalists of a frenzied photo shopping spree one day last fall, Tyler and I debated which CDV's, tintypes, snapsho...