Episodes

Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
316 Blenko Glass
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Dee puts Ken in the torment nexus to teach him all about mid-century mod art glass. Someone free him. Please.

Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
315 N - The Sailor’s Word Book with special guest Hannah! (1867)
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Nancy Dawson. Neptune’s goblets. North-West Passage.Nuts of an anchor. All these nautical terms and more defined at long last in this, the Nth chapter of the Sailor’s Word Book! (With special guest Hannah Haverkamp.)

Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
314 Ch. 18 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
You're not wamping high enough. You need to wamphigher.
Our friends Chris and Paris from the Terrible Book Club podcast join us for the arrival of Admiral Bell and Jack Pringle at Bannerworth Hall and a wild ride through the particulars of Charles Holland's inheritance.
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Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
313 Butter Pat Dish
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Our most contentious episode yet! Does your kitty, ferret, or hedgehog require a fancy lil dish for their fancy lil dinner? Consider, the humble butter pat.

Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
312 Antiques Predictions for 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Dee and Ken explore the forecast for the 2024 antiques market. Cottagecore? Shaker? Maximalism? Yes please!

Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
311 The Getting Even of Tommy Dodd by William Hope Hodgson
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Terrible Book Club is back to help the Antiques Freaks cope with William Hope Hodgson’s non-Carnacki fiction. Come for the crossdressing sailors, stay for the true story of how Dee got banned from the mantis shrimp facebook group.

Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
310 Hess Trucks Toys
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wherein an oil baron sells collectible commercial products branded with his company name and logo out of the sheer goodness of his heart and not for any crude capitalist purposes. With bonus digressions into Polly Pocket and the Marx brothers.

Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
309 Nutcrackers
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Despite Ken’s grinching, Dee is determined to tell you all about the history of vintage and antique nutcrackers. (With bonus diversions into the absurdity of the Yankee Candle flagship store.)

Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
308 M - The Sailor’s Word Book with special guest Hannah! (1867)
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Hannah has rejoined the Antiques Freaks to delve into nautical nonsense! Marling-spike. Midshipman. Mollymauk. Mosquito fleet. With bonus diversions into Master & Commander, Moby-Dick, AMC’s cult horror hit The Terror (2018), and Dee’s insatiable hunger for mackerel.

Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
307 Bottle Whimsy
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
A ship in a bottle is just the tip of the iceberg. Consider: an entire coal-mining enterprise bottled up, complete with miniature town celebrating industry atop whilst workers toil away below. Intrigued? Let’s get eensy-weensy with antique folk art.

Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
306 Ch. 17 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Please enjoy this episode from our Varney vaults. Friendship ended with CHARLES HOLLAND. Now SIR FRANCIS VARNEY is our best friend.
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Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
305 Rushton Rubber Face Dolls
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Before Puppy Surprise, before Glow Worm, and well before Five Nights at Freddy’s, there were still more horrific plush toys with molded rubber faces. Dee loves ‘em! Ken hates ‘em! It’s time to delve into the strange Edwardian to mid-century kitsch of the Rushton Rubber Face Doll.

Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
304 Syroco
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wood that is not wood. Regency that is not Regency. Particleboard and yet mold-injected. And Victorian? What the heck happened over at the Syracuse Ornamental Company? The Antiques Freaks are on the case!

Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
303 Ch. 16 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Please enjoy this episode from our Varney vaults, wherein we rejoin Charles Holland and Flora Bannerworth in the garden of the manor for an "affecting" scene. But what effect will it have on the Antiques Freaks?
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Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
302 Silver Hallmarks with Carolyn Law
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
A mystery no more! The Antiques Freaks chat silver hallmarks with Carolyn Law. Carolyn is a personal property appraiser with a specialization in silver, English, Irish, American Colonial and Federal; a collector of 18th century English silver, particularly by women silversmiths; an author of articles on silver and appraisal practice in Silver Magazine; and a member of the UK Silver Society.
You can learn more about Carolyn and her work at CarolynLawAntiques.com

Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
301 Catherineholm Cookware
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Come for the frank discussion of mid-century modern Scandinavian home goods, stay for tips on keeping your cats entertained and important reasons to not drink cadmium.

Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
300 L - The Sailor’s Word Book (1867)
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Land-shark. Loblolly-boy. Lubber’s hole. All these nautical terms and more defined in this thrilling chapter of The Sailor’s Word Book!

Wednesday Oct 11, 2023

Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
298 Ch. 15 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
In the spirit of spooky season, please enjoy this episode from our Varney vaults! Our friend Tarra (wellntruly) joins us in uncovering the most unexpected development yet in the Varney case. Charles Holland has two gay uncles. And they've arrived to answer the all-important question: "Who the devil is Josiah Crinkles?"
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
297 K - The Sailor’s Word Book (1867)
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Kelf. Kitty-witch. Krang. All these nautical terms and more defined in this chapter of the Sailor’s Word Book!