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How to determine the age of antique furniture

Tags: Furniture, Identification

American chest of drawers dated 1700–1720 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection — Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 (public domain).

Where to look for labels, construction details and repairs, and why several clues are better than one. Read More : How to determine the age of antique furniture

Collecting Hand Bells: Antiques and Affordable Finds

Tags: Bells, Collecting, Identification

Nineteenth-century European hand bell incorporating the face of the Egyptian deity Bes. — Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889, 89.4.1127. · Public domain. Resized and compressed for web.

School bells, musical handbells and decorative examples: how to examine their construction, markings and condition before you buy. Read More : Collecting Hand Bells: Antiques and Affordable Finds

Examples of Early Eastern Canadian Ceramics

Tags: Ceramics, Identification, Canada

Glazed earthenware jug with slip decoration, Cap Rouge Pottery, Quebec City, 1875–1880, in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts — Image: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 (public domain).

Documented pottery from Quebec and the Maritimes, from nineteenth-century household wares to early studio work. Read More : Examples of Early Eastern Canadian Ceramics