Mysterious Planchette

Late tonight (or early tomorrow morning, depending on how you look at it), your curator Brandon Hodge will appear alongside his collabora...

I love the end of long searches. The Auburn Company of Providence, Rhode Island has already gotten a fair assessment of its known hist...

Sturmberg Planchette illustration, from 1876's Life Beyond the Grave . One of the more enduring planchette ads that appears in the ...

One of the great pastimes we collectors and researchers play amongst ourselves is the occasional overview of the patent record. There, we fi...

There's a two-way street at the intersection of Researchtown and Collectingville.  One lane is bumper-to-bumper traffic, where we have n...

In my realm of collecting, it is incredibly rare to acquire items with any sort of significant provenance. Talking boards seem to come along...

"Go! from the speaking dial learn/  A lesson all divine/ From faults that wound your fancy turn/ And mark the hours that shine....