Before you pay a pretty penny for an antique Windsor chair, hear what Maureen Stanton, the aut... ...amed Wesley Swanson, who is a master at building " antiques ."When he’s building a chair, he takes a lon... ...ir through chemical analysis.Read more about fake antiques
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/26/Is-Your-Antique-Windsor-Chair-a-Fake/
Talk about a garage sale find! A New York family picked up a Chinese bowl at a garage sale for $3 and found out that it's actually a 1,000-year-old treasure worth $2.2 million: The bo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/22/3-Bowl-Found-in-a-Garage-Sale-Sold-at-Auction-for-22-Million/
What's the gadget that automatically plays all kinds of music from different instruments in one package? Today that would be an iPod, or 50 years ago, it would be a jukebox. But before electronics, you'd be talking about...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/09/The-iPods-4000-Pound-Grandfather/
Fleeting Dragonfly; Mark OliverWhat's a Litter Bug? According to artist Mark Oliver, this:Arthropod sub-species of the Insecta class.A creature whose instinctual and physical qualities have adapted so uniquely to the mod...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/13/Litter-Bugs-Sculptural-Insects-Made-of-Antique-Junk/
I miss seeing the old timey typewriters around town-the smell of the oil, the clack clack clack of the arms stamping letters onto parchment fed through sheet by sheet.The elegance of typewriter design is the basis for th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/11/10-Of-Historys-Most-Beautiful-Typewriters/
Dita Von Teese was instrumental in reviving the ar... ...n Teese's love of vintage Americana. She collects antique hats, figurines, taxidermy, Hollywood and Burlesq...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/16/dita-von-teese-on-burlesque-fast-cars-and-old-lingerie/
The 1927 film Metropolis is hailed as a masterpiece of cinematic art, and any surviving ephemera associated with it is very valuable. An original poster for the movie sold for $690,000 in 2005! There are only three known...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/10/a-rare-film-program-for-fritz-langs-metropolis/
What's so special about the photo above? Photographer Timur Civan snapped that photo using a modern digital camera with a vintage 104-year-old Wollensak lens. Back in 2010, Timur wrote:...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/25/century-old-lens-still-making-pictures/
Photo via Cool and Collected Do you have this nifty Superman lunch box in your closet? If so, you could be rich! TopTenz lists the top 10 toys in your closet that could make you rich....
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/super-rare-lunch-box/
The float in your toilet tank that measures the wa... ...about glass toilet floats in a conversation with antique expert (and Rare Earth keyboard player) Mike Brun...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/12/could-there-be-a-treasure-in-your-toilet/
