Jul 21, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
I’ve been asked about the impact inflation has on antiques. At one time I would have had an easy answer, and that would have been that holding (or buying) antiques is a good bet in inflationary times. For most real antiques there is a limited supply, so demand...
Jun 30, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
Columnist Gayle Manley writes about typewriters in this issue and it brings back memories from my high school years. Somewhere I have my “Thirty-Word Pin,” awarded at some point in my less-than-illustrious high school career. The pin recognized my office prowess of an...
May 20, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
Electric autos are all the rage. No, not today; we’re talking the early 1900s. It seems as if the auto industry today is likely to succeed in switching many of us from the internal combustion engine to battery-powered electrics. In the early part of the...
Apr 20, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
As we head to the summer season gasoline prices are high and flying isn’t much fun. Seems like a good year for a vacation nearby home. While there is a tendency to want to “get away,” if might be a good time to discover (or rediscover) what is in your own back...
Mar 21, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
I’ve sometimes commented that auctions offer bad coffee and good donuts. “Back in the day” when there were frequent on-site auctions, the food tent that followed the auctioneer was typically manned by local families or organizations. Regular followers of the...
Feb 18, 2022 | By Grant Hamilton, Publisher's Message
It has been a long couple of years with the Covid pandemic. Despite the unprecedented speed that the scientists and pharmaceutical companies achieved in bringing vaccines to the public, we aren’t a patient population. The cancellations, postponements, and re-do...
