Antique Discovery

(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...

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) As you drive around Denton, you could find yourself in the downtown square that showcases the county’s historic courthouse. Adjacent to the courthouse...

(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 medical advisement to go get some sea and salt...

(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 the practice of rationing, or conserving...

(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 depictions of children holding onto ribbons,...

(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 has been celebrated since around 2019...

(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...