Family Estate Auctions is hosting a GIGANTIC Railroad Auction on October 28 and November 4 featuring a gigantic railroad estate assembled from a single collector. The estate has thousands of unique and original items including:    Lanterns, Lamps, Signs, Badges, Tin Ware, Signals, Switches, Oil cans, Tools, Containers, Books, Magazines, Epherma, Ledgers, Original Documents, Railroad China, Locks and Keys, Rail […]

By Tom Cotter      Howard Pierce is one of the happy stories of the 1930’s and on in the pottery community. With limited formal schooling and a self-financed trip around the world, Pierce moved from Chicago to California to live with an aunt in 1934. Devoted to human and non-human anatomy and physiology, Pierce developed exceptional sketching abilities to create […]

By Jon DeStefano    Although Willie Miller started in the antique business over 30 years ago she was fond of them a lot longer. “I always have liked old things,” she said, “I love history and sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century even though it was a lot harder living back then as compared to now. For […]