By Tom Cotter Photos by Tom Cotter, including collections of Roberta Hankins When I wrote an article about Mid-Century Modern Glass for the September 2020 Mountain States Collector, I feel that I scratched the surface. I’m still doing so three years later. The glass companies that continued into the late 20th and early 21st centuries scrambled to survive in an […]
By Robert Reed Then hail to labor! everywhere, Honor to those who do their share. Labor Day poem by Clara Denton, 1928 Long unnoticed, the collectibles of the Labor Day holiday are gradually gaining in recognition. After all it is an event that has been celebrated nationally since the latter part of the 19th century. Some true treasures of the […]
September 2 Congress establishes U.S. Treasury (1789) September 4 Labor Day September 5 First session of Continental Congress convenes (1774) September 9 Congress renamed the nation “United States of America” (1776) September 10 Grandparent’s Day September 11 Patriot Day September 15 POW/MIA Recognition Day September 17 First day of Constitution Week September 18 Congress establishes U.S. Air Force (1947) September […]
By Henry J. Pratt Nearly 170 years ago, a Vermont fisherman—Julio T. Buel—accidentally dropped a kitchen spoon in a near-by river, only to watch in awe as a pan-sized trout swallowed it and swam merrily away. Just exactly when fishing-lure manufacturing got started in the U.S. is unknown, but Buel received the first fish-lure patent in 1852. His breakthrough in […]
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