Archive for June, 2009

A Book Guide About Coin Collecting For Kids…Of All Ages

 
It is always perceived that coin collecting began when coins were first made long time ago. Since banks were non existent especially during ancient times, collecting them seemed to be a practical way to store them. They were being hoarded not only for their natural value but because of their rarity too. These coins have [...]

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Vintage Butter Churns

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)A butter churn is a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter. Milk or cream was placed into the vessel and then stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the [...]

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Eisenberg Ice

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Eisenberg, one of the most respected names in costume jewelry, was started in 1914. The Company originally produced clothing at its beginning in 1914, attaching pins to their creations. These pins become so popular that Eisenberg began production of jewelry exclusively and abandoned its clothing line. Eisenberg [...]

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Sèvres French Porcelain

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Sèvres is French hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain, made at the royal (now national) factory of Sèvres from 1756 until the present. In 1756, Sèvres became the leading porcelain factory in Europe, thanks in large part to the patronage of Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Sèvres porcelain is famous for [...]

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Tips About Cleaning Cloudy Decorative Mirrors

There are a number of questions about why mirrors do what they do once the start to age and today I want to focus on why they become cloudy and how you can go about cleaning them.
If you have, say, a full length mirror as part of your closet and it is now old [...]

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