Ask a German the difference between “Dresden” and “Meissen”, and they’ll tell you “about 15 miles.” Ask us the same question, and we’ll say “no difference.” That’s because we’re talking about porcelain…porcelain in Germany. Elector Frederick Augustus I (King August the Strong to his friends) planned to make his home in Dresden the most important […]
Everyone seems to have a “thing” for figural bottles. How about you? What? You’re not familiar with figurals? Figurals are objects – everything from jewelry to napkin rings, spoon holders to bottles – that are shaped like something else, most often a person or animal. Just think of Mrs. Butterworth and her bottled pancake syrup! […]
Most people can tell a piece of Weller pottery when they see one. It has the name Weller right on the bottom. But did you know that most of the plain color Weller we see with the large scrawled name is not the stuff that made the pottery famous? Weller was the invention of a […]
Tea has been a very important drink to the people of our country, although perhaps not quite as popular as in other places of the world. Ever since the infamous tea party in Boston Harbor, we’ve found ingenious ways to store and serve the hot beverage, most of which are highly collectible. Since tea was […]
{And you thought it was just a cereal bowl!} This is a short article on china- not the country, the object. It seems that human exploration, deception, and even wars have been fought over the discovery of a certain formula….one that delineates the ingredients of a hard, ceramic substance called porcelain. Porcelain, you see, is […]
Some collectibles come and go, but depression glass has held its own since it was first produced during the late 1920’s and continuing into the 1940’s. Some acquire it for its color or pattern; some collect it for nostalgic memories of “grandma’s cupboard”. Whatever the reason, it remains very popular in the world of collectables. […]
