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Vintage Sleuthing: Rabbit hole dive - insurance fire mark from our colonial history
Sometimes an object crosses our path that impels us to dig around on the internet to see if we can find out more. The internet can give you all kinds of information...if...
Vintage Sleuthing: The Regency romances of Georgette Heyer
When you speak of Regency romances, the first name you think of is Jane Austin. Which is only fair because Austin wrote romantic novels about the time in which she...
Vintage Sleuthing: Pub jugs - where advertising meets barware
The need to get their brand in front of people for whom it might resonate is why so many companies invest in promotional products. Beer, wine and alcohol makers have spent centuries handing...
Vintage Sleuthing: Rabbit hole dive - What was the H.A. Johnson & Co. of Boston, MA?
Sometimes an object crosses our path that impels us to dig around on the internet to see if we can find out more. The internet puts lots of information at your fingertips,...
Vintage Sleuthing: Hoya Art Glass
This sturdy modern salad set crossed our path with no labels, no makers marks, nothing to go on to identify it. That meant it was time for some vintage sleuthing....
Vintage Sleuthing: Ribbon paper dolls
In the course of our vintage-lovin' lives, we've seen quite a few of these framed ribbon beauties. As luck would have it, a pair of ladies in frames with removable backs came...
Vintage Sleuthing: Boston coffee advertising from 1920s
One of the most fun and frustrating tasks in being a vintage seller is finding something interesting and aesthetically fabulous and trying to find out what exactly it is. The...