Antique Discovery

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) June is here, and that kicks off the prime summer flea market season. Roadside stands, dusty remote barns, city lots and tents of treasures, flea markets...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Mother’s Day was established in the United States in 1914. Ann Jarvis, a social activist, conceived the holiday to honor her mother, and all women who...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Early spring has arrived, and you might be headed out to the garden shed to dust off the tools of yard and garden care. Old garden tools, such as trowels,...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Social clubs, such as women’s clubs, debate clubs, religious groups and others, often held spring meetings and re-emerged with the first flowers, when the...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) February is the month of receiving bouquets of flowers, but are the vases or containers utilized to showcase the beauty of these tokens of love ever...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) In the 1941 film, “Citizen Kane”, a business tycoon utters one word from his deathbed, “Rosebud.” Later we find out it refers to his childhood sled, and...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Large, glowing plastic lawn ornaments, with smiling faces of Santa, snowmen or even the nativity scene, are a product of mid-century ingenuity and...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Recently, I was in a rather grand museum, Winterthur, in Wilmington, Del., and found myself in a hall of soup tureens. A vessel for soup and culinary...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) The Crow’s Nest sits quietly back in a historic old railroad era building, tucked away off of the main street in Preston. You can see a crow depicted on...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Eastern Bay Trading Company is situated on Main Street in Grasonville, off of Route 50, very near the Queenstown outlet malls. Owned and operated since...