Antique Discovery

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Christmas and the upcoming holiday season would not be complete without seeing a brightly painted nutcracker soldier, with jaw agape, ready to crack open...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) n modern times, we get our butter stick out of the refrigerator, take it out of the plastic or paper container, and either cut it from the rectangular...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) few days ago, on an overcast, gloomy morning, I made a trip to a local cemetery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to contemplate cemetery antiques. You...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Driving out to Tilghman Island, with a long, curvy road and twists and turns that offer views of the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding tributaries, you can...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Elizabeth Ferguson, president of the Trappe Rural Life Museum, met me at the entrance to their main building on the farm campus, just outside Trappe, Md....

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) You might be walking down the beach this summer and stop to consider a shell that has just washed up from out of the surf at your feet. Shell collecting...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Sailors and sea-faring voyagers have always had to find ways to measure where they were on the globe at any given time. Through trial and error, many...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Nostalgia fuels memories of games we played as children, and one of the most iconic toys that come to mind are marbles. Collected not only for gaming, the...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Photography has a long history of trial and error, experimentation of materials, many different camera styles, and other attempts of capturing the world on...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Lace is used in modern times for very specific purposes, such as wedding gowns, additions to clothing, banquet embellishments for tables and more. There is...