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2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Sports Fan

We've rounded up our favorite gifts for your favorite sports fan! Surprise them with vintage football posters, autographs from their favorite players and coaches, rare books, or sport collectibles ...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Entertainer

We've rounded up our favorite gifts for your favorite hosts and hostesses! Surprise them with hand blown glass bowls and mammoth servers, delicious smelling candles, leather wrapped rocks glasses, ...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Book Lover

From first edition printings to photoplays, early childhood favorites to 20th Century modern classics, we've rounded up some of our favorite gifts for the book lover in your life. Presented in thei...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Political Historian

We've rounded up some of the most interesting and illuminating political debates, campaign posters and memorabilia, and important antique books that tell the story of the founding of our Nation's g...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Space Aficionado

From astronauts' signed memoirs, original NASA photographs and Apollo coffee table books, to moon journals and galactic cufflinks, these gifts are truly out of this world. We selected gifts that ar...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Military Buff

This Holiday season, pay tribute to those who have dutifully and bravely served our country in the Armed Forces. From original WWII recruitment posters and collectible autographs, military memoirs ...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything

We pride ourselves in having a spectacular collection, sourcing high and low to bring our collectors a wide array of rare books, original flags, and historical Americana. We love uncovering the uni...

2024 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Explorer

These hand-picked holiday gifts are perfect for the explorer in your life! Inspire them with the tales of intrepid explorers who have come before them, stunning wall maps, pocket knives and tactica...

October's Odd Antiques

A slightly macabre little collection of new arrivals, these small pieces are a fascinating glimpse into a large part of cultural history. 

Manufacturing the Stars and the Stripes

The original 13 stars and stripes of the American flag have taken on many different configurations over the last few centuries, with the construction techniques following suit. Read more in this blog.