Antiques Freaks

045 Bubby Pots and Invalid Feeders

It's not a gravy boat. It's a downward spiral into Victorian sanitation failure and ill-advised website names. (Apologies for sound quality - our microphone picked up literally everything on the TV in the next room and stripping that out gave us tin-can voices. Thank you for your patience!)

044 Kewpie Dolls

Everyone's favorite horrible little shifty-eyed gremlins! But did you know their secret history? Spoiler alert: it involves parachutes, burglary, and suffragettes. Not necessarily in that order.

043 Hummels

Before we had Beanie Babies, we had Hummels. These cutesy collectible porcelain children pissed off Hitler something fierce. #hummelbrag

042 Danger! Poison Bottles

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To celebrate, we've brought out one of Dee's favorite collections: poison bottles. Please do not use them to serve spooky cocktails at your party. You will die.

041 Oddities

What do you get when science and history collide? ODDITIES! We close out Goth Month with special guest Olivia, here to tell us all about what oddities are and where they came from. (Hint: it's all Napoleon's fault. Probably.)

Follow Olivia!

• @obfvscate (twitter)
• 0bfvscate.tumblr.com
• ...and watch out for Lord of Thundertown coming this December from NineStar Press!

Sources:

• Orientalism by Edward Said
• Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by David P. Silverman, John Baines, and Leonard H. Lesko
• Distilling Knowledge by Bruce Moran

040 Antiques Outtakes Medley

Dee's out-of-studio this week, so we put together an assortment of the best deleted scenes from our Patreon! Covering everything from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell to Drug Abuse Resistance Education to Singin' in the Rain, and so much more.

039 Bloodletting

In today's episode we give you blood, blood gallons of the stuff, and share a little on why you would take the blood out, and with what! Warning for the obvious presence of blood. Gallons of the stuff. 

038 Haunted Antiques

What do you get when you turn a 19th century textile mill into an antiques shop? GHOSTS! We kick off the month of Halloween with haunted antiques--and special guest Olivia!

Follow Olivia on Twitter! @obfvscate

...and watch out for her book Lord of Thundertown coming soon from NineStar Press!

037 Goofus Glass

Not gallant glass, but GOOFUS GLASS! Long thought to be a prank, now we know it's the Next Big Thing in collectible glassware. Also, notoriously ugly.

036 First Editions

BOOKS! How can you recognize a first edition in the wild? How many first editions are hiding in your house RIGHT NOW? And which rare first edition has the most inappropriate price tag? All this and more as we dive into the wonderful world of collectible literature.

035 Cameos

Cameos! The ultimate souvenir for the distinguished Victorian tourist. See also: sardonyx, the sarcastic cousin of onyx. And just how much is Lance Bass worth?

034 My Little Pony

Antiques Freaks chat about some fine equines as we delve into the magical retro world of My Little Pony! What is "pony cancer" and how can you prevent it from destroying your mint-condition Minty? How is a plastic pony like a glass bottle? And just who are these horses for, anyway? (EVERYONE!)

033 Hair Receivers

What are you doing with all that hair collected in your hairbrush? Just throwing it away? WASTEFUL! The Antiques Freaks tell you how to put that hair to better use, through the cunning contraption of the HAIR RECEIVER! Other Victorian nonsense covered includes Crimson Peak wingfic and phrenology.

032 Stamps

Once upon a time, in a world before electronic-mail, we had stamps. From the penny black to the pony express, Antiques Freaks will tell you which stamps are hot, which stamps are not, and which stamps might be secret pro-Lincoln-assassination propoganda. Allegedly.

Don't forget to check out our guest episode on the Terrible Book Club podcast! We talk about Johnny Tremain and how gay we all are for Rab.

031 Sun-Purpled Glass

Start sunning purple with the Antiques Freaks as we tell a tale of beauty and deception. Sun-purpled glass, an innocent aesthetic alteration, or a plague of fraud and lies? You decide!

030 Pyrex

From batteries to casseroles, Pyrex has got your back. In this listener-suggested episode, we learn about literally the only antique you can put in your oven. We swear this isn't a prank.

029 What Not To Do! Furniture

How is an antique bookshelf like a rabid raccoon? What's a doily good for, anyway? When will science give us an endangered sites list, but like, for antiques? The Antiques Freaks tell you What Not To Do to your antique furniture, and so much more.

028 Danger! The Snellen Reform Eye

It was the best of eyes, it was the worst of eyes. The creator of the best-selling poster in America brings you the Snellen reform eye, the greatest prosthetic eye of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There's just one little problem...

WARNING! This episode is to eyesockets what our Danger! Paris Green episode is to Victorian children. If you're sensitive to eye squick, maaaybe check out a different episode?

027 Crimson Peak (2015)

Guillermo del Toro's Gothic romance masterpiece gives the Antiques Freaks an excuse to talk about chatelaines, hair jewelry, spirit photography, and a whole lot more!

026 Antiques Fraud! Furniture

Chairs? Lies. Desks? Also lies. Antiques Freaks learn which fraud fooled the furniture experts at Versailles and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.