Antique Research Library

Antique Furniture & Accessories Antique Furniture & Accessories    

Discerning American Origin in Antique Furniture    Retro Furniture (seller)
Furniture and Design Associations    Furniture Makers' Links    glass Insulator makers    Duncan Phyfe Furniture                           
Loading Dock Antiques     Recognize age in Antique Furniture      Reproduction & Replacement Hardware              
Antique Trunks & links    Antique Furniture information resource (recommend)    Antique Nails Article    
Antique Furniture Books    How to evaluate antique furniture    Is your Antique Furniture Valuable?  
A Guide to Antique Furniture    Prima Putra Wood Antiques    19th Century Painted Antique Furniture  
Lifestyle Antique Furniture   American Iron Bed Company    Biedermeier Furniture   About Antique Beds        
Antiquarian Traders Victorian Furniture    Classic Antiques & Interiors     Metro-Retro Furniture     MBW Furniture   
Rinners and Brandon Furniture    AC Antiques    The Harp Gallery Furniture            

Advertising Coca-Cola, Signs, Soda Pop, Souvenirs, World's Fair
Coca-Cola collectors Club    Cracker Jack Collectors Association    Antique Advertising Signs    
Automotive Advertising    Lehmann's Antique Advertising     American Tin Factory    Nostalgic Sign Company
Vintage Reproductions seller    About antique advertising tins    eBay Vintage Ad store   Advertising (seller)      
Harvey's Antique Advertising    Retro Pub     Auto & Transportation Memorabilia     Antique Advertising Signs  
Hartman Center for Advertising History    Coca-Cola   Advertising Index (variety)    Awsum Advertising   
Ad-solutely Vintage Ads   Memory Lane World's Fair     eBay advertising active          
 

American Western      several links    Western Memorabilia (links)    Western Clothing    Western Sculpture  
Antique Maps of Western US    Colorado Antique Lover's Guide    (Seller) Cowboy Cabin    
Western people & events    Old Western Postcards    Colt Parts Western Collectibles (Seller)    
Cowboys & Indians' Collector's Guide    Antiques West    Tack Trader.com     Cowboys and Indians Antiques  

Antiquities   Ancients
Byzantine Culture    Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association     Howard Nowes' Ancient Art    Uto-Aztecs story                                   
The Barakat Gallery   Sam Fogg Medieval, Middle East and Asian    Simon Ray Indian & Islamic   Far East Asian Art   
Story of Many Cultures in North America   Hindu Art    Buddhist Art & Buddhism   Mesopotamian Art    Romanesque                       
Forum Ancient Coins     Golden Thread Antiques    Buddhist Artifact Gallery   Bru-Baker's Artifacts            
Harvey Art & Antiques - historical art   Marine shipwreck artifacts    Artifacts links (recommend)    Antique Fossils    

Art Drawings, Frames, Paintings, Photographic, Sculpture, Posters, Prints
African American History Engraved Art Prints    Florida Highwaymen Artists    Nancy Steinbock Posters    
GoAntiques Paintings   International Roots Company    ARTNET.com art search engine    Art Online: Fine Art Dealers   
Black American Art Sculpture    Vintage Posters    Vintage Poster Works    Preserve your Photographic memories                         
European & American Paintings    Rare Prints    Artcom     Western Sculpture     Fine Art - dArt Gallery Listing         
World of Art & Antiques - Worldwide online Gallery     Artloss - Helping the Victims of Art Theft   Antique Mosaic Art
Pacific Galleries    Antique Fine Art.com                    

Black Memorabilia
A perspective of the market for Black Memorabilia    Negro Spirituals Music    Buffalo Soldier Story    
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority    S. Carolina Gullah Festivals    
African American History Engraved Art Prints     Black American Art Sculpture    
Black History of the Seacoast (recommend)     Minorities in the USA history    Aniston Library reference                                         
A collector of African American History    Florida Highwaymen Artists   Black Americana (seller)  

Books    

Rare books for sale    Rare book search and Research    Old Books Seller links    Collectible Cookbooks   
Crabtree's Old Books    Joslin Hall Rare Rooks    ABE Books    Antiquarian Bookseller's Assoc of America  
Oak Knoll Books & Press    Barnes & Noble Used & Out of Print   Bookfinder Online open search    
Serendipity books First Editions & other sellers' links    Heritage Books    Prints Old and Rare    

Bottles   

Antique bottle collecting    Pepsi antique bottle links    Antique Bottles digging Law    Milk Bottles  
Antique bottles    Antique bottle collector's haven    Antique Soda & Beer Bottles    Bottle Collecting    
Beer Soda Sports       

Breweriana and Tobacciana   
collectible bar mirrors    Brewerania specialist selling    Beer Stein Related Sites    American Brewery History   
Brewerania enthusiast seller    Links to beer collecting enthusiasts    Antique Soda and Beer Bottles                                               
Antique Beer Bottles    Beer Cans    Beer Soda Sports    Whiskey    Cyberattic Tobacco   Breweriana.com
Brewery Gems  Tavern Trove Brewer Biographies    Tobacciana for Sale     Breweriana links (recommend)        

Carpets / Rugs    

Rug Hooking    History of Carpets    Turkish Rugs Article    Armenian Rugs & Carpets    
Articles on Oriental Rugs & Textiles (recommend)    Navajo weaving    Carpet Weaving in Iran    Kammy Antique Rugs
Oriental rug Review    About Carpets of many cultures    Antique Oriental Rug Exhibit    Aja Design Rugs  
Old Carpet.com (recommend)    Jozan Oriental Rugs magazine    search rug article database  Metropolitan Antiques  
Cloudband Rugs, carpets & textiles    Hali carpet, textiles & Islamic Art       

Clocks         Antique Clocks History & Prices    A Dozen Clocks & Watches Links    Fendley's Antique Clocks    
History of the Grandfather Clock    Old Father Time Clock Center    Care of Old Clocks    
clock repair tools    Schatz Clocks/Anniversary clock    Chelsea Clocks    Ansonia Clock Co    
Clock care & repair (many links)    Antique Clock Restoration    Ball Watches (links)    
Antique Clocks Identification & Price Guide (links)    Gustav Becker Clock Group    Styles of England Clocks  
Clock Lore    Seth Thomas Clocks    Forestvile Clocks    Howard Clocks    Oswald Clocks    
Vienna Regulators    Cuckoo Clocks    DB's Antique Clocks w/ Photos & story    Churchill Clocks                           
Collector's Web Guide Clock Links    Antique Clock Guy (sales)    Retro Bubble Clocks    

Clothing and Vintage Apparel
Vintage clothing by Cool Old Stuff    (Seller) Antique Lace & Linen Shop    Sazz Vintage Clothing    
American Textile History Museum    Collecting Antique Buttons    Vintage Textile.com (seller)    marcjoseph clothes
Victorian Clothing and Accessories    Antique Fashion Vintage Textile Show    Vintage Apparel Seller    
Cleaning & Storing Antique Clothing     Vintage Clothing Sales, Info & Links    Victoria Rose Wedding Gowns        
19th Century Costumes (recommend)    Klassic Line Vintage Clothing    

Contemporary Collectibles Contemporary Collectibles   

Cartoon characters, Television Lore, Disneyana, Electrical Appliances, Fast Food memorabilia, Lunch Boxes, Longaberger
Lava Lamps    1950s collectibles    TV Lamps    Wood's Toys    carToonopedia   Disney Search online    
History of Animation  time line    Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts    Rainbo Animation Art    Pez Candy Links    
Warner Brothers' Indian Cartoons    Character Products (recommend)    Started by a Mouse - Disney    
Disney fan links (recommend)    Disney Collectibles (seller)   Bradford Exchange (seller)   Fraternal Organizations & Scouts
Lunch boxes seller links       Bond 007, Legos Political & more          
Mickey's Place of Collectibles    One Man's Trash   Audrey Quinn-Carroll contemporary collectibles   


Cookie Jars  

Abingdon Pottery history    The Cookie Jar.net    Shawnee Cookie Jars & Teapots
Cookie Jar Association    McCoy Cookie Jars - see McCoy above also    Shopping Cookie Jars    
Cyberattic Cookie Jars            

Decorative Arts    Ceramics, Porcelain, Mirrors, Picture Frames, Stained Glass, Tiles, weathervanes    
Chandeliers, Ceiling Fans, Doors, Locks,               
Architecturals.net selling    Elegant Interior Decorating   Carole A Berk Decorative Art   
Eclectic Revival Vintage Lighting & Decorative Arts    Classic Antiques Stained Glass                   

Dolls        About Antique Doll Collecting    Start a Doll Collection    How to collect Baby dolls    
Buy Old Dolls    Doll Collecting    Doll Restoration and Conservation    Tips on Doll Collecting    
Why People Collect Dolls    Grading / Value Dolls    History of Peddler Dolls    About a Doll Maker    
Doll Website Directory    Doll Collector, Restorer and Creator    Antique Doll Costumes     
19th Century Costumes (recommend)    Antique Dolls links (recommend)    Anything goes Dolls      

Ephemera       (See Books above) Cards, Postcards, magazines, newspapers, Comics/comic books, Maps, other
Old Maps of Australia & New Zealand    Antique Western US Maps    Worldwide Vintage Postcards    
Old Western Postcards    Old Postcards    Hemisphere's Antique Maps & Prints    A date in Time    
Old Books and Paper     Old Cartoon Prints    Preserve your photographic memories   Pat Sweeney Ephemera     

Ethnography        African Antiques and collectible relics / artifacts    Baule Tribe history    Artheos African Art Virtual Gallery    
Teacher's Guide to African Art    (recommend) African Art informative links    

American Indian / Native American   Native Ways (recommend)    Primitive Ways    Navajo Weaving    
Cowboys & Indians' Collector's Guide    Adobe Trading Post 100+ links     John Hill Antique Indian Art     

Oriental Antiques and collectible relics / artifacts    several Oriental Antique links    Thai Antiques    
Chinese Primitive Pottery   Chinese Ancient pottery history   Oriental Clothing   Vintage Japan Collectibles (seller)
Asian Artistic Traditions   Eastern Trade Roots    Oriental Antique Shara   Asian Art Imports   Far East Asian Art         
Hali carpet, textiles & Islamic Art   Antique Buddha Sculpture    Antique Chinese Jade Carvings    Asian Artifacts dealers                
Terra Cotta Premier Chinese Art    

European including Royalty    Austrian Clothing    Original Porcelain Ad Signs (Ger)     
Antiq Haus European Treasures    European & American  Paintings    

Hispanic Antique and collectible relics / artifacts
Mexican Retablos        

Figurines Figurines and Miniatures including Models   
Hummel   Hummel figurines    Professor Hummel figurine price guide     Hummels at Discount    Hummels on eBay  
Boyd    Boyd Art Glass      
Royal Doulton  Royal Doulton home page  Dr. Doulton Price guide  Pascoe & Company   About Royal Doulton Collectibles           
                Kingsmills Royal Doulton   Royal Doulton replacements and sale specialist    Royal Doulton China & figurines    
      Grand Designs Royal Doulton seller    English Dinnerware - Royal Doulton      The China Cupboard      
Goebel    Precious Moments   PM seller    Goebel on eBay    
Anty Em's Animal Figurines     

Folk Art Folk Art    
Antique Decoys Folk Art    Antique Reels    Fan Association of North America     Golden Thread Folk Art    
Society of Tobacco Jar Collectors    Jackie Radwin Folk Art    FAQ Antique Reels    Carousel Horses Links    


Glass (see Ohio valley glass above)    
Steuben Crystal    Early American Pattern Glass EAPG    National American Glass Club    Majolica History    
Early American Pattern Glass Society    Early American Glass for sale    Glass Antique-Or-Not                            
Just Glass    Art Glass Group    EAPG Discussion Group    40s, 50s, & 60s glassware    Colors of Depression glass
The Art of Making Glass    Recognizing Old Glass    Curioscape Glass links    American Cut Glass Assoc    
National Insulator Association   Replacements Dinnerware    Capt'n Clint's Cut Glass    A History of Glass Making               
Glass Encyclopedia (recommend)    Milk Glass Collectors' Society    All Antique Glass     20 Online Glass Vendors             
Christine Bridge Antiques (UK) 18th Century Glass    Classy Glass Fostoria American     
The Art of Glass by Glass Collector Digest    Montano's Antique Glass Repair                   

Holiday Holiday and Holiday collectibles
Antique Christmas Toys    Medals & Pinbacks    


Kitchen Kitchen Items including Salt & Pepper    Shawnee Salt & Pepper Shakers    Knife Collecting    A Curious Cupboard                    
What do you have for Art in your Kitchen?  Collecting Antique Fruit Jars   Salt & Pepper Shakers & Kitchen(seller)  
Treasures on the Green     Laura's Dollhouse & collectibles    Lisa Kay's Country Cupboard    

Jewelry        Ivory, Costume, Estate
Victorian Jewelry (seller)    Legacy Jewelry (seller)    Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry    Antique Jewelry Ooh Aah  
Sell your Jewelry - Jewelry World    The Jewelry Box      Hillary's Antique Jewelry Store    Sassy Classics Jewelry       
Yesterday's Jewels    Learn about Antique Jewelry    Valentina's Estate Jewelry    

Lamps and Lighting Fixtures   

Int'l Antique Lamp Show    Pressure Lamps     Atomic Retro Lighting    
Antique Lighting Reference Books    Antique Lighting History    Pressure Lamps Ints
Int'l Guild of Lamp Researchers (German & English) info for lighting scholars    G.E. Mazda Lamp    
Biggest gifts - Dale Tiffany Lamps                

Media Collectibles : Radio, TV Lore, Movie, Political

Media Collectibles including Radio, TV Lore, Move Lore, Political, other
The Antique Radio Collector    TV Western Links    Antique Radios    Retro Radios & phones   Movie Reviews      
Antique Wireless Association museum, links Radio/TV    Story of 1st transatlantic contact    (car)Toonopedia   
Art's Antique Radios    

Metal Metal and Metalware including Garden/Archiecture
Bronzes,  
Classic antiques Bronze Art       

Military Military, War Memorabilia and Nautical
Antique Guns    Antique Gun Links    Antique Boat Anchors    Caldwell Civil War Antiques    Marine shipwreck artifacts  
Antiques West Militaria    Vintage Vessels   Nautical Antiques (recommend)         

Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Antiques and Collectibles
Autographs, Automobiles, Bakelite, Currency and Coins, Desk Accessories,
American Mint (seller)    Working Man's Coins    Old Bricks    Antique Autographs   Space Collectibles    Automobilia             
Eclectic Revival Vintage Lighting & Decorative Arts    Anty Em's Animal Figurines    Fire Department & Police   
Bernies Auto Center  Auto & Petrol                 

Music Music and music memorabilia
Vintage Instruments by Cool Old Stuff    Music & Musical Instruments     Vinyl Records    Mechanical Music Instruments    
Books, Records & Antiques     Vinyl Records list of links (recommend)    Tangley Calliopes    About Chesterfield Violin          
Great Music Used, Vintage Instruments   Greg Boyd Vintage & Handmade    Kingston Vintage Guitars    Music Treasures              
Studio 1525  Online Vintage Gear  Vintage Instruments Philadelphia  Wichita Band Vintage Pro Quality Musical Instruments       

Oil Lamps Oil lamps and globes  

Kerosene Lamps and Restoration    Oil Lamp History and Lamp Basics    
Italian Antique Silver Oil Lamps       

Pottery Porcelain and Pottery   (see Ohio valley pottery above)   Hirado Japanese Porcelain    Replacements Dinnerware
Gouda pottery(search web)        Fiesta Pottery History and Patterns    Dinnerware Patterns Identifier   
Pottery History and Tradition (recommend)    Ceramics top 100 links    Chinese, Dutch, Japanese & English  
California Pottery    David Overall Chinese Export Porcelain    Storybook Ceramics    Blue Mountain Pottery (closed, 4 sale)
The Pottery Studio - Index of Potteries     English Flow Blue China - brief history     Tablewhere Dinner China valuation                  

Primitives Primitives including Hand Tools

Tool Collecting Links    Antique Trunks & Links    Primitive Shopping    Tool Organization    Primarily Primitives
Old Woodworking Machines    Mid-West Tool Collectors' Association    Great Expectations Tools    
Holly Hill Farm Primitives    Backwoods Barn    Primitive Barn Collectibles    Rustic Sampler - High Quality Primitive                         
All Primitives listing for sale    

Railroad Railroad and miniature Trains
Train Restoration & repair    Classic Toy Trains Magazine - info   O Scale Model Railroad Links                                                      
Railway Station-History  RRhistorical.com  Directory of World Rail Road Sites  Model Railroad Clubs & Museums
Train Set Chooser    S Scale Model Trains    About: Railroads of the United States     Becketts' +2000 Rail Links    
Crescent Model Railroaders with show listings    Jerry Quinn Classic Trains & Toys    Trains & Railroads History

Religion Religion (all religiions of the world, more pending)
religious prints                                  

Science Scientific and gadgets including Phones and Phonographs
1940s collectibles    Michigan Antique Phonograph Society    Electronic Communication Museum    Medical Antiques
Over 100 Phonograph links including Gramaphone, Victrola, 78s and groups     Nipperhead Phonographs    
the Old Appliance Club    Hand cranked Victrolas    Antique Cameras    Antique Watches    Classic Vinyl   
Sewing Machine Collector    Questions about Antique Telephones    Vintage Phones   Phonetique Art Deco    
Telephone History Expert    
Antique Telephone Collectors' Associ  Chicago Old Telephone Co    Old Phones.com    Vintage Phones                    

Silver Silver and Silverplate    Antique Silver and Silverplate Links    Silver Plated Steins    Antique Silver (seller)  
Care for Antique Silver    Antique Silver Collectors    Cyberattic Silver    Spencer Marks Silver    
Kalms Silverware    Italian Antique Silver Oil Lamps                       

Sports    Sports and Sports memorabilia
Racing, Vintage Equipment,
Collecting Baseball memorabilia    Negro Leagues Baseball Museum    Beer Soda Sports      
   

Textiles   Textiles and Linens including Quilts, Sewing, Tapestries   
History of the Antique Mosaic Art    Crazy Quilt Society    Collectible Quilts    Antique Textile Vintage Fashion Show        
Antique Textiles Storage- Smithsonian    America's Quilting History (recommend)    Stella Rubin Quilts    
New Pathways into Quilt History    Dating Antique Quilts    PM McBride Textiles   

Trains Railroad and miniature Trains
Train Restoration & repair    Classic Toy Trains Magazine - info   O Scale Model Railroad Links                                                      
Railway Station-History  RRhistorical.com  Directory of World Rail Road Sites  Model Railroad Clubs & Museums
Train Set Chooser    S Scale Model Trains    About: Railroads of the United States     Becketts' +2000 Rail Links    
Crescent Model Railroaders with show listings    Jerry Quinn Classic Trains & Toys    Trains & Railroads History

Toys    (see Dolls, Trains and contemporary collectibles above)
Antique Toys and Dolls    Pedal Toys    Wood's Toys    Toys and Dolls    Neat Stuff vintage Toys   FMichelle toys   
About many Novelty Toys   Collectors Cool Toys (seller)    Mr. Potato Head    Teddy Bear Artists     
Old Steiff & other Bears    Diecast Airplane.com    Lone Star Toys (seller)    Fantiques Toys & Banks    Toy Tent  
Damyank Toys & Collectibles   Memory Lane Toys & World's Fair    American Toys   Copenhagen Antique Toys   
Sue Pearson Teddy Bears    Blue Ribbon Bears    Specialty toy seller    Allsorts die cast toys   Kid Cody Collectible toys  
Tonemarsh toys  vintage Weebles, Kenner & Playskool    Old Toys, Games & Cool Stuff    Randy's Antiques & Toys                      
SSSSSA'S Vintage Toysssss   Fisher Price Vintage Toys     eBay animal collectibles    Toy Collector Roadshow

Vanity Vanity, Perfume and Shaving,  Hat Boxes and Hair Pins   
Avon Collectibles    Victorian Vanity items (seller)      Story of Avon Collectibles & sales  

 

Wow!  What a great buy!  Great Service!  Very Knowledgeable     Lisa  Columbus Grove, OH

 Easy to deal with. Chest is lovely, arrived safely. Thank You for all your work    Nina  Lacey, WA

 

 

Ohio Pottery and Glass, local history

Anchor Hocking Glass Co - official site   

Blenko Glass Factory

Blenko Collector's Page

Cambridge Glass Company museum                    

Early American Pattern Glass Org

East Liverpool Museum of Ceramics      

Fenton Fanatics (Society)              

Findlay Glass

Edward Ford Plate Glass Co in Maumee Valley   

Classy Glass Fostoria American                 

Glass making in West Virginia

Museum Glass Collections of the United States

Gonder Pottery     

Hall Pottery - Great resource for information on Hall                                

History of Hall China by Carnegie Library

Heisey Crystal - an overview

National Capital Heisey Collectors' Club

Homer Laughlin Pottery                     

Homer Laughlin Pottery

National Imperial Glass Collectors' Society                                     

McCoy Lovers' Site                              

Fee Based Research for McCoy & Brush-McCoy                                         

McCoy Pottery Collector's Society      

McCoy Pottery - Specializes in McCoy Cookie Jars      

Ohio Ceramic Center's Pottery history      

Ohio Valley Artists & Decorators of Pottery - A thru E                              

Ohio Valley Artists & Decorators of Pottery - F thru L

Ohio Valley Artists & Decorators of Pottery - M thru Z

Roseville

Roseville Pottery by Cool Old Stuff (links for Roseville)     

Rookwood

Alana's Shawnee Pottery                                                  

Tiffin Glass Company

Warwick China                              

Weller                                                              

Wheeling Ohio's Oglebay Institute

Out of Print Antiques books re: Ohio Antiques