Antiques Freaks

191 Uranium Glass

Friend of the podcast Paris from Terrible Book Club joins Dee for this episode on the ultimate glow-up - Uranium Glass! Learn to finally tell the difference between green glasses and whether or not the FDA thinks you should be grinding up and eating glass. (Spoiler Warning: Don't)

190 Tobacco Silks

Tobacco is whacko if you're a teen - but tobacco silks are for everyone! As are satins, cottons, flannels, and felts. Masonic tobacco silk quilt, anyone? (Apologies for our neglect of the vaping community.)

189 The Haunted Jarvee - Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, with Terrible Book Club!

Our friends Chris and Paris from the Terrible Book Club podcast join us once again for another thrilling adventure! Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, an Edwardian supernatural Sherlock Holmes, investigates a haunted ship in his most sensual escapade yet. Frankly, this episode isn't appropriate for anyone. Except, perhaps, the sea.

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188 Demitasse, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate

So many delightfully tiny cups! So many wee saucers! And so many elegant pots! But which are for tea, which are for coffee, and which are for drinking chocolate? And while we're here, what the heck is a demitasse cup? The answers to all this and more on this week's episode of Antiques Freaks!

187 Rhinestones

Shimmering, sparkling, and superior to diamonds in every regard, it's time to explore vintage and antique costume jewelery with rhinestones!

186 Skeleton Keys

Unlock the knowledge of spooky scary skeleton keys! Goth as heck and so so affordable - bet you can't collect just one!

185 What Not to Donate! Thrifting with Nigel

Our friend Nigel joins us for a behind-the-scenes look at a major thrift store chain. What becomes of antiques in the donation bin? Tune in to find out!

Content warning for discussions of child endangerment and death.

184 Folding Fans

We return with fantastic fanfare to our history of folding fans!

183 Lovejoy - The Firefly Cage

It's the classic 1980s British TV tale of a rogue antiques dealer (Ian McShane) solving antiques mysteries! Including cricket cages, coal carving, explosions, ambiguously gay fishermen, and the single most boring auction ever filmed.

182 Varney the Vampire, Chapter Two (1845)

Hi folks, Ken here! We had a minor medical emergency this past week - nothing to worry about, everyone is fine, but it did prevent podcast recording. So instead, we have the second chapter of the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire. You may remember chapter one from last October. Since then, we've been reading aloud a chapter a week over on our Patreon. And today, we release chapter two from the Patreon vaults. We hope to be back next week with a regular Antiques Freaks episode. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy!

181 Magic: the Gathering

One trading card. Half a million dollars. What? How? Why? Our friends Daniel and Jon join us for a round-table discussion about Magic: the Gathering, a trading card game of wizards, spells, and wildly unpredictable secondary markets. Including, but not limited to: Tinybones Trinket Thief, Rebecca Guay, and the infamous Black Lotus.

180 Advertising Fans

Summer heat got you down? Cool off with our historical look at vintage and antique advertising fans!

A Stitch In Time - The Boardwalk Antiques Shop

Join us for the third and final novella in the antiques-themed romance trilogy, wherein we find sewing machine valuations and a bizzaro-universe antiques convention!

178 Harajuku Fashion History with Sarah Sews!

Sarah Sews returns to tell us all about how Japanese street fashion became an international sensation with genuine vintage pieces and historically-inspired designs!

177 SylvaC Pottery

UK kitsch is here! Learn about the adorable Staffordshire ceramics company SylvaC and all the bunnies and puppies your heart can hold.

Solving for X - The Boardwalk Antiques Shop

We return to the antiques romance trilogy The Boardwalk Antiques Shop to review the second novella in the collection, Solving for X! Fewer antiques than promised, and what remains is certainly... something.

175 Jelly Molds

From the kitchen drawers of yesteryear to the kitchen walls of today, it's jelly molds! Or gelatin molds. Or Jell-O molds. Pick yer poison.

Message in a Bottle - The Boardwalk Antiques Shop

Love is in the air! The Antiques Freaks return to reviewing antiques-themed fiction with the romantic novella trilogy The Boardwalk Antiques Shop by Julie Wright, Melanie Jacobson, and Heather B. Moore.

173 Pie Birds

Are your pies soggy? Do you wish you had an adorable ceramic kitchen friend to ensure crisp crust? Are you in the market for a tiny porcelain bird, goat, or dragon? You're in luck, because pie birds are here!

172 The Horror! Stilton's Antiques by Bruce Blake

The antiques are on point! The horror, not so much. This week the Antiques Freaks review the short horror story Stilton's Antiques by Bruce Blake. Haunted dolls, funerary relics, and spooky antics abound! Content warning for discussions of historical and fictional child death.