Are a Welsh dresser, a Welsh cupboard and a hutch different? The problem is that names for certain pieces of furniture have changed through the years. Today, all three terms are used for a piece of ...

As the golf cart rumbles slowly through the flea market at Renninger’s Antique Center, Terry and Ralph Kovel scan the wares piled on tables and spilling from vans. Bedpans, rusted bathtubs, wooden ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many Americans are looking to the ...

Kovels’ March 2023 newsletter features doorstops, magicians’ props, Scandinavian design, vintage fashions, and Ohio bottles, all with photos and prices. CLEVELAND ...

Think of wooden furniture, and most of us picture defined shapes, even lines, and symmetry. Of course, that isn’t always the case. Historically, wood was left with uneven live edges when furniture was ...

Ralph and Terry Kovel are among the country’s best-known antiques experts. They write about antiques (a garage-turned-library in their Cleveland house contains 20,000 research books on the subject), ...

Wise investors, collectors and people who just love handbags are discovering that the market for designer handbags is hot. Kovels' new, just-published special report, Kovels' Collectors Guide to ...

Nursery rhymes may not make sense to the 21st-century child. What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, ...

Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Sterling-silver ...