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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Look, Touch, But You Don't Have to Buy: On Shopping at the Delaware Antiques Show with No Money

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Fancy antiques shows like the Winter Antiques Show  (benefits East Side House Settlement ) in New York City have their critics, but I relish...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Material Culture Minute: Kittens

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While plowing through a new stock of photos at one of our favorite antique malls, Tyler and I came across this stunning tintype portrait of ...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Material Culture Minute: "Are you a doctor?" Or, the Continuing Saga of Collecting Disability History

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Combing the aisles of an antique mall in Chadd's Ford, PA, a few weeks ago, I was looking for something special. A friend, who was out a...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

It Still Smells like Crayon: On Purchasing a Circa 1890 Makeup Box

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I find it hard to resist antiques I know probably should have been discarded years ago. The best example I have of that is this late ninetee...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

A New Blog

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In this snapshot (a recent acquisition-isn't it a great interior?), it looks like our friend has an announcement to make! Don't...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Material Culture Minute: "We Go from One Thing to Another"

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There is often a fine line between what antique dealers sell and what they collect. In some cases, dealers display their personal collection...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Stocking Up

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It's a real pleasure to receive an invitation to lecture on my M.A. thesis topic--Berlin work--five years after I finished that degree a...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Stuck Between a Decoy and some Berlin Work

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Norman Rockwell's  Good Friends  (1925) &  #UDFlat_SPencer I was practically born in a flea market . Thus it should come as no s...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Material Culture Minute: Where did you Get that Giant Papier-mâché Boar?

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Perusing a small Shriners' Hall antiques show in New Castle, Delaware, today, I could not help but stand aghast at and bemused by the si...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Property of Nicole Belolan: Ephemeral Material Culture of One Day in 2014

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Some time in 1935, Virginia Brussard (possibly the Altha "Ginny" Virginia Compher mentioned here ) bought a blank scrapbook...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Material Culture Minute: Collecting Disability History

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I had the pleasure of writing a blog post about my collection of disability history photographs, crutches, ceramics, and ephemera--and how c...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Stitch by Stitch

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Under Tyler's tutelage, I have been sewing a hunting shirt for myself. Hunting shirts, as former Colonial Williamsburg journeyman tailo...