Antiques Freaks

Woodrow Wilson, whale teeth, blood oath betrayal, glass sickness, and hot tips for book restoration! Somehow, this is our marbles episode. Enjoy!

We return to the Victorian self-help guide to learn how to select the most fashionable and economical wardrobe of waistcoats and trousers, with perhaps a few hints as to the true identity of the mysterious author A Lounger At Clubs.

Improve any porcelain instantly by adding DRAGONS! We chat about this delightful variety of vintage and antique Japanese pottery - some with hidden secrets!

We return to The Gentleman's Art of Dressing with Economy by A Lounger at the Clubs to hear this mysterious author's thoughts on coats. From antimacassars to fundaments to the humble origins of Orlando Bloom's career, it's a refreshingly shade-tastic journey through Victorian fashion.

Join us as we explore how these two Japanese pottery terms came to be so intertwined in the antiques industry.

A fashionable wardrobe for the discerning gentleman need not be expensive! Please enjoy this whimsical Victorian self-help book, with tips such as: always pay cash, consider occasionally dampening your trousers with a wet sponge, and brush the street filth off your clothes before it rains!

Our friends Paris and Chris from the Terrible Book Club podcast join us once again for another read-along of everyone's favorite Edwardian supernatural Sherlock Holmes rip-off, Carnacki the Ghost Finder! In the adventure of the Whistling Room, Carnacki visits a haunted castle in Ireland and finds it's full of clowns. Our extremely scientific bingo card proves this is the most Carnacki story we've read yet!

This ware was made for walking, and that's just what it'll do! Rejoice in the adorable kitsch of dishes, cups, plates, bowls, and all sorts of ceramics with cute little feet.

Brightly colored art deco ceramics come in all sorts of delightful collectible hues. Homer Laughlin produced a whole rainbow of cups, plates, bowls, and sundries to mix and match and have a ball!

Join the Antiques Freaks for a casual chat about our favorite online selling platform for antiques and vintage goods - Etsy!

Hail, wind, and rain! The Antiques Freaks explore the first chapter of the Victorian penny dreadful that paved the way for Dracula.

What are smalls? We just don't know. But they do form the backbone of the antiques industry! (You can have two fast nickels or one slow dime.)

From Amherst, Massachusetts comes kitschy condiment containers! Learn about Holt Howard's Pixieware and marvel at the mystery of the spoofy spoon.

It's time for an Edwardian ghost-hunting Sherlock Holmes knock-off! We do a live read of the William Hope Hodgson short story The Searcher of End House from the collection Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Including bingo, wet-aged mutton, and our special guests Chris and Paris from the Terrible Book Club podcast. It's the very best/worst of 1910s science fiction.

Turning trash into treasure! Or turning treasure into trash? The upsides and downsides of upcycling.

Wherein it turns out Little Orphan Annie was a documentary this whole time.

By popular demand! Everyone's talking about the infinite varieties of poultry-themed glassware!

We need something to protect our precious electricity from the wood vampires. Enter: the glass insulator! And come with us on a collectible treasure hunt!

By listener demand, it's Toy Story: Tin Edition!

Not boxes - bottles! Join the Antiques Freaks as we learn about collectible and antique Chinese snuff bottles. Back in my day, we had to paint our tobacco-snorting miniatures upside-down at right angles inside tiny medicine bottles, uphill both ways through the snow - and we liked it!