by Cabinet of Curiosities | Mar 15, 2013 | Blog
When it comes to collecting antiques and oddities one can never predict the ebb and flow of the market. What was hot yesterday is old news and undesirable today and things that were meaningless a few years ago have suddenly become all the rage. One field of collecting...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog
Long before the expression “I am not trying to reinvent the wheel or build a better mouse trap” there was this bad boy – an old wooden 4 hole Choker style Mouse Trap. Kinda like a roach motel, once a mouse checks in, he doesn’t check out. Very...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
When it comes to spinning tales no one does it quite like our friends in The East Coast of Canada. If you’re a lover of ghosts, goblins, disasters, triumphs, treasures and all things that go bump in the night I suggest that you lend an ear to some good old fashioned...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
Not long ago, a group of American relic-hunters discovered “thousands of coins” and other artifacts from what’s believed to be the legendary British HMS Fantome – a War of 1812 gunboat carrying White House plunder. The ship, on its return to Canada...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Feb 21, 2013 | Archive
In as much as we’d love to sit around the shop cherry picking all day we’ve got stories to write and super cool antiques to sell. For an amusing look at the world of cherry pitting check out the fascinating story below!