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BEVERLY, Mass. – The April 27-28 sale at Kaminski Auctions kicks off with over 300 lots of Chinese treasures: porcelains, bronzes and an important third or fourth century Gandhara Buddha on Saturday morning, followed by a selection of furniture and furnishings from Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and other estates. Sunday will feature the estate of […]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Odd, unidentified or unusual collectibles make every antiques show and shop more fun. How do you use a dog treadmill? Did the dealer say it was an elephant catcher? Is that strange crock really an 1850 chicken feeder? And what is the use for an oversized cardboard top hat covered in wallpaper? […]
CATAWBA INDIAN RESERVATION, S.C. (AP) – No other group on this earth makes pottery the way the Catawba Indians of York County make it. Using clay hand-dug from Catawba River banks, Catawba pots and jugs and other pieces are worked and fired by hand with no wheel—nothing but millennia of heritage and DNA and spirits […]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – The skill of sewing with a needle and thread was required in the centuries before the sewing machine was invented. A machine, probably the first, was used in England in 1715, and another was patented in 1844. But the Elias Howe (1845) and Isaac Singer (1851) machines were the ones that gained […]