Occasionally things come into our shop that we wouldn’t normally look twice at when we are out and about picking and hunting for unique antiques, curios and other oddities. Case in point, the collection seen here. Check out the full story below.
If you promise not to tell the local building inspector we’ll let you in on a little secret. Promise? Alright then, we’ve got bugs in our shop! What are we going to do about them you ask? Simple….Eat them! So inspired by their presence I can’t...
At the risk of showing my vulnerable side I gotta admit as a kid I was totally creeped out by skeleton keys – not sure if I was alone in this affliction but for some reason or other old keys of this nature gave me the willy nillys! Perhaps it was the rust, the...
History has is that canteens date back as far as 60,000 years ago; primitive canteens were made from a variety of materials including: hollowed out gourds, ostrich eggshells and animal skin. For hikers, campers, soldiers and field workers canteens were (and still are)...
[row][column span=”5″]With the weather coming and going these past couple of days, cabin fever doesn’t come close to describing the burning fever some of us diggers are going through, so here’s a little teaser to keep stirring those embers....