Category: DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) The Victorians and people from even earlier eras were often told by their doctors to go “soak in the sea,” a...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II. This also began...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Recently, I was in an antique store, and picked up a souvenir cup from a European country, no doubt, with...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) lthough the exact origins and creator of the annual April 9 “National Cherish an Antique Day” are a bit unclear, it...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) A horse brass is a decorative medallion made of brass that adorns the harness of a horse. For show and pageantry,...