From the Archives, Sept. 2008 By Les Stewart I struggled with the name for this article. I wanted to call it “When is Moroccan Amethyst really Moroccan Amethyst?” That is because collecting Moroccan Amethyst can be quite frustrating. Amethyst means purple in color, but, not all purple glass is Moroccan Amethyst. A lot of the glass listed for sale on […]
By Bill Siuru I can spend hours in toy stores in Germany. They are always filled with toys that are meant to last a lifetime, not the TV-hyped toys found in Toy’s R Us that are often broken and discarded after a few hours of play. Pick up a highly crafted car, truck, construction equipment or aircraft and you are […]
Collectors and Bibliophiles Look Forward to an In-Person Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair this Summer in Colorado Springs Following a Covid-19 pandemic year that featured a move to online, virtual book fairs, the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA) is pleased to announce it will hold an in-person event this summer. The 36th edition of the deep-rooted and well-respected […]
William McLaren of Anchorage, Alaska correctly identified the June’s What Is It pictured to the left. He tells us it is “a German-made, 1950’s Schuco Elektro Ingenico 5311 battery-operated, remote-controlled, tin maroon sedan with chrome accents. The sedan was modeled from the Buick V-8 of that period. Schuco began in Nuremberg, Germany in 1912, as Schreyer & Co. In 1921 […]
By Marcia Ragonetti “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” And in La Cache’s case, that means a new doorway and new spatial configuration for this well-loved consignment shop. Pivoting successfully after two different closures in 2020 due to Covid-19, La Cache had its Grand Reopening — in grand style!— on May 14, 2021. From the kernel of a idea […]
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