Old cookbooks are not just for collecting, but they are indeed fun to collect. I can not say I have any particular sense of reasoning when it comes to my own collection, but I sure have a lot of them. As a great eBayer, I was constantly picking them up for a song and a [...]
Q: As a collector of Belleek, I say the first markings are in black, but a lady I email back and forth with says it was different colors. Could you tell us who is right?
A: First of all, for those who wonder what is Belleek, it is one of the best porcelains you can buy. [...]
Cast Iron toys commonly called iron toys have been of great interest to both children and adults since they first came on the scene in 1825, in America. The earliest of iron toys was a simple little iron that rested upon a trivet. You can almost imagine a child pretending to slave over the hot [...]