Antique Discovery

(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, as well as for status symbols of the...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) When you think of Valentine’s Day, you might immediately think about an actual Valentine, which is a card that contains a message of love. They once were...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Recently, I took my American Brilliant Cut punch bowl to a Christmas party. It sparkled in the light, holding a large amount of spiked eggnog and a dash of...

(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...