Antique & Vintage Online Resources Guide
Looking for antique & vintage online resources? You’ve come to the right place! I’m building an inventory of articles containing good, solid information and high quality images to help us all identify, value, and care for our precious antiques and collectibles.
I have personally read and selected each one for its quality and usefulness. In addition, I’ve taken the liberty of including articles I’ve written on various topics and will be adding to the list regularly. Enjoy!
On-Line Articles on Antique Topics
AMBERINA GLASS: Amberina Glass; ADK Girl @ Heart Amberina Guide
AMERICAN FLAGS: Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
ANTHROPOMORPHIC COLLECTIBLES: Anthropomorphic Collectibles Guide
ATOMIC AGE DECOR: It’s Atomic
BAKELITE: Bakelite or Fakelite?, Gale’s Bakelite Guide
BASKETS: How to Identify Antique Baskets; ADK Girl @ Heart Basket Price Guide
BATTERSEA BOXES: Beautiful Battersea Boxes
BAUHAUS MOVEMENT: Bauhaus & the Wassily Chair
BLENKO GLASS: Blenko Glass Factory Experience; Blenko Art Glass; Blenko Marks; Blenko Catalogs
BLUE WILLOW: Collecting, Buying, & Selling Blue Willow
BOTTLES: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information; Bottle Books; Antique Bottle Collector Resource Guide; Bottle Pickers
BREAD BOARDS: Antique & Vintage French Bread Boards
BUTTONS: Button Country Website;ADK Girl @ Heart Antique Button Guides Part 1 & Part 2
BUTTON HOOKS: Button Country Article
CANNING JARS: Value of Old Canning Jars ;ADK Girl @ Heart Canning Jar Guide; The Collector’s Ultimate Guide to Canning Jars; The Collector’s Ultimate Guide to Canning Jars
CARNIVAL GLASS: The Field Guide to Carnival Glass; Carnival Glass Marks
CAST IRON: The Cast Iron Collector
CHILDREN’S BOOKS: The World’s Most Valuable Children’s Boos: Do You Have One?
CHINESE POTTERY: A Guide to Collecting Antique Chinese Pottery
CHRISTMAS: ADK Girl @ Heart 1950’s Christmas Decorations
CHRISTMAS POST CARDS: How to Spot a Valuable Christmas Postcard
CLOTHING: Collecting Vintage Clothing
COMPACTS: Take a Powder
COOKBOOKS: ADK Girl @ Heart Guide
CRACKLE GLASS: ADK Girl @ Heart Guide; ADK Girl @ Heart Price Guide
CRANBERRY GLASS: Collect a Crop of Cranberry
CUTTING BOARD: What to Look for in a Vintage Cutting Board, About Vintage French Bread Boards
DANISH MODERN: Lax-a-Daisical
DARNERS: Home Things Past
EARLY AMERICAN GLASS: EAG Society Makers Pages (extensive); Pattern Lists;
ELEGANT GLASS: ADK Girl @ Heart Article
ENAMELWARE: ADK Girl @ Heart Article; ADK Girl @ Heart Price Guide
ENGLISH POTTERY: The Potteries
FANS: How to Identify an Antique Electric Fan
FASHION: Vintage Fashion Guild
FENTON: Fenton Glass 101; Fenton Art Glass Company; Fenton Logo History; Catalogs;
FISHER, HARRISON: Harrison Fisher’s Beautiful Girls
FLAGS: The Evolution of Old Glory;
FLASHLIGHTS: Flashlight Museum
FLEMISH ART: Buying Guide for Pyrography-Flemish Art
FLOWER FROGS: ADK Cool Collectible: Flower Frogs, Flower Frogs 101, Collecting Floral Frogs: David Spain
FRAMES: Antique Picture Frames
GAMBLING CHIPS/MEMORABILIA: Antique Gambling Chips & Memorabelia Website
G.I. JOE: Vintage Flashback: G.I. Joe
GLASS: The China Closet: A Basic Guide to Antique & Vintage Glassware
GLOBES: How Old is Your Globe
GURLEY CANDLES: Antique Show Finds: Granny’s Ornaments
GLASS: Glass Lovers Glass Database; Antique Glass Collecting for Beginners; Vintage Glass: Let’s Get Personal
HANDKERCHIEFS: All About Collecting Hankerchiefs (video)
HULL POTTERY: Hip Hull-ray!
HUMMELS: Hummel Identification & Price Guide
ICE CREAM SCOOPS:Antique Ice Cream Scoops
IMPERIAL GLASS: EAG-Imperial
INDIANA GLASS: Indiana Glass Pattern Identification; IndianaGlass.org
INSULATORS: Collecting Antique Glass Insulators
IRONSTONE: ADK Girl @ Heart Ironstone Price Guide; Secret Life of Antiques: Collecting Ironstone; ADK Girl @ Heart Ironstone Guide
JADITE: The Collector’s Guide to Jadite
JEWELRY: Antique Spotlight: All About Cameos; My Classic Vintage Jewelry Blog
JEWEL TEA: Hall China & the Jewel Tea Company
LACE: Secret Life of Antiques: Lace
LEFTON CHINA: Chickens & Lefton China
LIMOGES: Secret Life of Antiques: Limoges Porcelain
LINENS: Tips, Facts: Success with Vintage Textiles
LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS: Little Golden Books & Illustrator Eloise Wilkin
LUNCH BOXES: Buying & Selling Guide to Children’s Lunch Boxes
LUCITE: Quick History: Lucite
MADAME ALEXANDER DOLLS: M.A. Doll History
MAJOLICA: Secret Live of Antiques: French Majolica
McCOY POTTERY: Collect & Display This: McCoy Pottery; McCoy Pottery
MECHANICAL ITEMS: AntiqBuyer.com
MELMAC: What is Melmac Dinnerware Worth?
MERCURY GLASS: The Antiques Almanac
MID-CENTURY MODERN: 7 Midcentury Brands to Find at Estate Sales
MILK GLASS: It Doesn’t Get Much Prettier Than Milk Glass; The Collector’s Guide to Milk Glass
NATIVE AMERICAN BASKETS: How to ID Native American Baskets
OFFICE EQUIPMENT: Office Museum
PENDLETON: Pendleton
PEZ: Collecting Pez Candy Dispensers; Pez Price Guide
PHOTOGRAPHY: Photo Sleuth–Old Photographs, Photographers, and Their Subjects
POLITICAL MEMORABILIA: Antique Spotlight: Political Memorabilia
POST CARDS: Value of Old Post Cards; Guide to Collecting Vintage Postcards
POTTERY & PORCELAIN MARKS: Kovel’s Antique Marks for Pottery
PURSES: A Panoply of Purses
PYREX: Pyrex Love; How Pyrex Reinvented Glass for a New Age; Pyrex 101; A Look Back at the 100 Year History of Pyrex
QUIMPER POTTERY: Vintage Quimper Soleil Yellow Tablescape
RABBITWARE: Rabbitware
RADIOS: The Radio Price Guide
RECORDS: Price Vinyl Records
ROSEVILLE POTTERY: Roseville Pottery: History, Fakes, Values
ROYAL COPLEY: The Royal Treatment
ROYCROFT: Rocroft Copper
RUGS: Buying Antique Rugs, Antique Oriental Rugs: How to Evaluate Quality
SEWING MACHINES: Antique Singer Sewing Machine Values
SHEET MUSIC: Where to Sell Sheet Music & How Much is It Worth?
SILVER: Master Online List of Silver & Jewelry Marks
SOUVENIRS: Vintage Souvenirs–A Sentimental Journey
SPAGHETTI DOGS: 5 Tips for Collecting Vintage Spaghetti Poodle Figurines
SPATTERWARE: Old Spatterware Worth Research Time, Keno Eyes: Sponged & Spattered Ceramics
STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURES: Those Wonderful Staffordshire Figures
TAYLOR, SMITH & TAYLOR: What’s the Dish?
TEAPOTS: Teapots Teapots Teapots; Collecting Antique Silver Teapots
TEXTILES: TextilesasArt. com
TOOLS: The Best Things (retail)
TORQUAY: Torquay Pottery Part I, Part II, Part III
TRANSFERWARE: Antique Transferware with Lidy from French Garden House; thepotteries.org; Transferware China; Antique & Vintage Transferware Price Guide
TRAVEL POSTERS: 5 Tips for Collecting Travel Posters
TRIVETS: ADK Tuesday’s Take on Trivets
TRUNKS: Brettuns Village Website
TYPEWRITERS: The Classic Typewriter Page, The Typewriter Database
VERA NEUMANN: Vera Neuman–Biography and Comprehensive Online Guide;ADK Vera Neumann Article
WADE WHIMSIES: ADK Cool Collectible: Wade Whimsies
WATT POTTERY: Watt Did You Say?
WEATHER VANES: A Breezy History of Weather Vanes
WEDGWOOD: Wandering Through Wedgwood
WESTCLOX BIG BENS: Westclox History at ClockHistory.com
YELLOWWARE: Evaluating Yellow Ware; Collecting Yellowware; Martha Stewart: All About Yellowware; Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab
WEBSITES
Some websites where you can get even more info about vintage and antiques (some of the articles in my list above came from these sites):
Collector’s Weekly
Real or Repro?
The Spruce.com
LovetoKnow
Dr. Lori
Dusty Old Thing
Country Living Antiques & Collectibles
HubPages
BLOGS
In addition to my article and website suggestions, I also highly recommend the following two bloggers, who write extensively about antiques (I’ve included many of their articles in my list above):
Panoply
French Garden House
Ruby Lane Blog
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
As I mentioned, I will be adding to these lists regularly, so come back for a visit anytime. Furthermore, if you have any suggestions for additions, feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line via my contact form (on my sidebar), or send an email to adirondackgirlatheart [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you enjoyed your visit, I hope you’ll subscribe and never miss a post.
You’ll receive access to my brand new
Adirondack Girl Member Library
When You Click Here To
With your subscription, you’ll receive the PASSWORD to give you access
to the Library where you’ll find tutorials and price guides like this one:
Bye for now,
I’d love it if you’d pin me 🙂
