Sackets Harbor is a historical village at the beginning of the 1000 Islands in New York State. In the 1970's my husband David and I were...

Yellowware is a lighter clay than stoneware or redware, and there was a great deal of that clay readily available to potters in America....

Looking at a century-old photograph and seeing something familiar that is also genuinely unique—say, a piece of furniture—is a novelty....

It has been said that ‘color is energy’. Although I can’t definitively explain that concept, I have a sense of its meaning. Whether it’s...

It is hard to believe, in this age of electronic toys that beep, flash, and move, that there was a time when the simple figure of an...

GCADA is an acronym that stands for Genesee Country Antique Dealer’s Association was founded in 1948 by several Rochester New York...

We all come to our collecting of antiques from various paths. Our first auction, our second antique show, a museum exhibit, or perhaps an...

We have been running Muleskinner Art and Antiques for 50 years now. We have always had a retail shop but over the years we have found it...

“Mission joke” is how 1970s antiques dealers referred to the dark, boxy oak furniture produced by virtually every turn-of-the-century...

A short time ago a friend asked me to put together an article about Oriental rugs. “Show them how to tell rugs apart,” he suggested....

I have been asked this same question numerous times throughout my career “What’s it like to be an antique dealer?”. This blog will give...

B Close-up of Jacob Hersperger’s desk dated 1850 by Jacob Knagy. (Collection of Dan and Pam Freeburg). By the early 1800s in most of the...

The collecting of Christmas decorations has been very popular for many years. They bring back nostalgic memories of past holidays for...

The group of three redware jugs pictured above were all manufactured at the Charles Gleason pottery in Morganville. This pottery was in...

In the early 1820s in Staffordshire, England a new process of decorating ceramics was taking place called transfer printing. Sketches of...

AN overview of Ohio art pottery.

This journey began as a 10-year-old, probably even sooner. Dragged through flea markets and antique shops the adventure was really not...

History The Ithaca Calendar Clock Company began business in 1865 in Ithaca, New York. The company was formed by Henry B. Horton, Charles...

You know how it is right??? How one thing leads to another, and another, and another??? And then.... you look around and HOLY COW!!!!! ...

Sam and his wife Cindy run Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, NY. Off the beaten track, Cottone’s is the Christie’s in cow country, our areas...