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 By Sharon Stajda,   In the mid 18th century , some very prominent residents of Worcester England were deeply concerned at the languishing industrial condition of the city. A gentleman by the name of Doctor John Wall came up with a plan to...

By Sharon Stajda, Majolica is believed to have been derived from century's old Chinese porcelain. As early as the 13th century, Spain exported its tin-glazed Hispano-Moresque pottery to Italy. The Spanish port which the earthenware was shipped...

 By Sharon Stajda,   Irish Belleek porcelain is a very fine thin almost transparent porcelain, it takes its name from the village in Ireland where it originated in the year 1857. The glaze on Belleek item's is a creamy ivory color with...

Punkinseeds were made by the Heddon company of Dowagiac, Michigan. Today, they are a favorite to many people, and are quite collectible. This lens will mostly focus on the wooden punkinseeds, the 740 & 730 series, but there will be a little info a...

 By Sharon Stajda, Red Wing Pottery The Red Wing Stoneware company was founded in 1878, the company was located in Red Wing Minnesota. It was one of the earliest Midwestern potteries outside of Ohio. As a rule pottery factories that strayed from t...

By Sharon Stajda, Ancient glass factories have been excavated at Poitou, Lyons, Marne, and Vendee in France, and there is evidence of some glass making as far back as the twelfth century, the trail is somewhat dim until somewhat later . "In the t...

By Sharon Stajda Finding a definitive definition for both an antique and a collectible is not possible. Just what constitutes an antique and what constitutes a collectible is determined by each individual antique dealer. Many times, the dealers will...

Collector's today are interested in many types of pottery and porcelain. Pieces from literally all over the world.  It is often very hard to identify old pottery. Most pottery companies marked their wares with a hallmark, some did not....

By Sharon Stajda, Old Delftware , was made as early as the 16th century. It was originally a low-fired earthenware, that was coated in a very thin opaque tin glaze with painted on blue or polychrome design. It was in the last half of the 19th century...

By Sharon Stajda,     Jacobean is a term used to cover all English style furniture from the reign of King James,to King James II However, throughout this span of time Jacobean furniture showed markedly different influences. The earliest Jaco...

  By Sharon Stajda, The founder's of Roseville pottery were  George Young, and C.F. Allison. The business it self got off to somewhat of  a modest beginning, making general stoneware for the home. In 1902 the pa...

By Sharon Stajda,   Flow Blue , sometimes referred to as flowing blue, is a stone china that is decorated with oriental patterns. Flow Blue was first made in Staffordshire from about 1825, while the old blue china with historical scenes...

By Sharon Stajda. "In the 18th century the decorations on stoneware pottery took the shape of formalized loops, flowers, animals, fish, birds, and butterflies. " Stoneware pottery such as: crocks, jugs, jars, wine-vats, churns, water-coolers, flask...

By Sharon Stajda   Each company had several variations in design, depending on the artists design concept. Each company had its own design pattern for the featheredge used on a given item. The pottery piece was formed from a soft paste c...

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There are a huge variety of antique ornaments and structures available for your garden including sundials, statues, urns, earthenware jars, lead cisterns, chimney pots, millstones, sandstone slabs, fieldstones, flowerpots, wood figures, fountains, la...

Antique silver and other metal objects make great collectibles, because we can use them for generations without worrying that they might get chipped or broken.  The patina of old silver makes it a wonderful addition to a variety of styles of dec...

By Sharon Stajda, The first pottery workers were hired from nearby Ohio. This is the main reason the workers were labeled the "Northern People" by the residents of Erwin. The Ohio craftsmen were responsible for training the Erwin r...

Find the perfect retro item to complete your collection. Perhaps you just want a concert t-shirt from the '70's. Or are you the creative type who turns vintage items into works of art? Then relax and browse for awhile. Items change daily so check bac...

Financial experts predict that over the course of the next five years the price of silver is likely to rise by 1000 percent.  During the last two years alone the price of scrap sterling has almost doubled and this price increase has filtered thr...