If you’re like me and enjoy collecting and have a creative streak, you’ve probably faced the issue of balancing your delight in making things with your collector’s desire to keep the integrity of your antiques and vintage items. While this clash of interests often presents a quandary for all artsy folk who collect, my primary [...]
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Should You Finish Or Repair An Antique Or Vintage Quilt?
At Bluebird Gardens, Charlotte Ekker Wiggins answers the question, “If I buy a vintage quilt top, and then quilt and finish it, does this reduce its value?” And I just love how she answers: If you are asking if a quilt’s appraised value will change; yes, it will. In general, the appraised value of a [...]
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Collecting Antique & Vintage Bookmarks With Lauren Roberts
Lauren Roberts is a bookmark collector I met when we were both presenters at the first Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention. I’ve admired her bookmark collection — and collecting habits — so much I’ve been waiting for us both to have the time to do a proper interview. Lauren, besides being a collector and a blogger, [...]
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Collecting Movie Star Memorabila With The Drewseum
Normally Inherited Values is all about antiques and vintage collectibles, but when I met Anne Olivares & Ashley Lampton, dedicated collectors of all things Drew Barrymore and curators of the The Drewseum, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at relatively modern collecting in comparison to vintage movie star memorabilia. Hello, ladies, [...]
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Collections In Old Shoeboxes
I just put an empty shoebox in my son’s room. Why? Because every kid should have empy shoeboxes to fill. I remember as a kid all the services shoeboxes had. Some held saved greeting cards, playing cards and jokers, and other bits of ephemera grown-ups needed not to see when they came to supervise room [...]
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Putting a Price on Priceless
Anyone who has watched even a little television in the last decade will know the popularity of shows where experts help ‘average people’ look through their possessions in the hope of finding something surprisingly valuable. Except, it shouldn’t really be a surprise because nearly everyone, or so you would be forgiven for thinking, has something [...]
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A Guide To Collecting Vintage Fashions & Lingerie
Four collectors of vintage fashions and lingerie share their tips on what to look for when collecting vintage fashions. The experts are: Vintage lingerie collector Layla L’obatti, who is the designer behind Between The Sheets Lingerie. Theda Bara of Theda Bara’s Vintage Lingerie, a shop that specializes in selling vintage lingerie from the 30′s, 40′s, [...]
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Practical, Yet Thoughtful, Gifts & Stocking Stuffers For Collectors
It’s that time of the year again, when people ask me, “What gifts can I get the collectors in my life?” Some say it’s easier to buy gifts for those who collect modern collectibles; you simply run out and purchase the latest release — and boast to everyone else that you got it, they’ll have [...]
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Caring For Your Vintage Lingerie
Where else can you find the best tips about caring for your vintage fashions and foundation garments then from vintage women’s publications? Then, as now, magazines shared tips for female readers interested in stretching their fashion dollars by not stretching their garments out of shape. Inside a 1941 issue of Modern Woman Magazine, tips on [...]
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Preservation Of Heirloom Textiles, Collectible Clothing, Etc.
This stunning 1940s dressing gown in silver grey satin with raspberry embellishments, serves not only as a reminder of just how lovely vintage lingerie can be, but also to properly store your clothing because this beautiful old dressing gown has color transfer marks. Sometimes these spots are not permanent, but remember to use archival tissue [...]
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