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Antiques & Collectibles Articles
 
New freelance articles each issue
 
Selected articles from the July/August 2010 issue
 
Got the time? Quinte Timekeepers do, by Ray Yurkowski
The Quinte Timekeepers club celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, with 40 members talking clocks, watches and history. Full story
 
Vintage phonographs music to ears of collectors, by Mike Bryan
Collecting vintage phonographs and records from the past century or so continues to be very popular with Canadians. Full story
 
Restoring rusty farm implements a labour of love, by Fred Graham
After retiring, Fred Graham and his wife, Pauline, set up house in rural Northumberland Couty where he restores implements for show. Full story
 
Other articles from our archives
 
Roy Bassett
War medals and badge collector
Collecting British and Commonwealth WW2 medals - Full story
British war museums draw countless tourists - Full story
Returning lost, stolen British Commonwealth medals - Full story
Heavy war toll calls for a poppy and remembrance - Full story
Collecting militaria - from photos to full-sized tanks - Full story
Collecting police badges is an arresting hobby - Full story
WW1 surgeon John McCrae's In Flanders Fields - Full story
The Collectors series: Medals - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
 
Mary Brittain
Garden advisor
Antiques in your garden? Yes,with heirloom seeds - Full story
 
Mike Bryan
Phonograph collector
Collectors, get your affairs in order - Full story
 
Janet Bryers
Paper collectibles
Old family photos source of family tree information - Full story
Collecting vintage Victorian cards - Full story
Collecting Victorian scrap books - Full story
China painting 1880-1930 - Full story
 
Melissa Collver
Tin collector
Collecting advertising tins a lifetime hunt - Full story
 
Bob DeFreitas
Marble collector
More in a series of marbles columns - Full story
Canadians have lost their marbles - Full story
 
Hyla Wults Fox
Kerosene oil lamps can be therapeutic - Full story
 
Lian Goodall
Karsh & King: Canada's first citizenship ceremony - Full story
 
Martin Howard
Vintage typewriter collector
The history of keyboards - without a mouse - Full story
 
Tom Iannelli
Vintage insulator collector
Carpet beaters in all shapes, sizes and colours Full story
Sooner or later, we all shine the glass insulator light - Full story
In search of the original insulators: Threadless - Full story
 
Ken Linna
Collecting old sleds a cool passion - Full story
 
Herb Kingston
Home delivery in Toronto - the good old days - Full story
 
Bruce Kirkland/Rachel Sa
Pressed glass collectors
Pressed glass is a wonderful obsession - Full story
 
Walt Lemiski
Vintage glass and china collector
Glass ice buckets: a unique, colourful collectible - Full story
Still crazy for Corn Flower after all these years - Full story
 
Robin McMullen
Corneil's auction sale for Mona Hall, 99, a winner - Full story
 
Donna McPherson
Golliwogg watcher
Golliwoggs from the 60s and 70s live again - Full story
 
Jim Ross
Vintage tools collector
Veteran Ontario collector gives us the plane facts - Full story
The long, the short and the tall of logging tools - Full story
Logs are cut, time to round up cabin-building tools - Full story
 
Mike Smith
Postcard collector/author
The Year of the Three (postcard) Kings - Full story
Anglo-Boer War postcards tell of the brutal conflict - Full story
Postcard collecting gets a stamp of approval - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
 
Guylaine Spencer
Facades admirer
Guildwood's "Graveyard of Lost Buildings" is huge draw - Full story
 
Pat Stott-Prince
Cups and mugs collector
Comical shaving mugs had their day - Full story
For trivia, ask a friend what a "muffineer" is - Full story
Whistling cups - designed to go with eggs n' milk - Full story
 
Barbara Sutton-Smith
Doll collector/author
Barbara Sutton-Smith dies at 82 - Toronto Star Obit
Meet the Boudoir Dolls, classy little ladies - Full story
Glorious hats from the 19th and 20th century - Full story
Early merchants were generous with their giveaways of dolls etc. - Full story
 
Jim Trautman
Pan-Am Clippers gone but not forgotten - Full story
 
Della Walker
Late Ontario writer
Della Walker, a veteran Wayback Times writer, dies at 70 - Full story
Memories of a Quebec hamlet and antiques - Full story
Antique furniture is just that: Used - Full story
 
Don Woodbury
Vintage telephone collector
Antique telephones: there is one for every home, every era - Full story
 
Ray Yurkowski
Photojournalist
Barrel making thrives in Prince Edward County Full story
Stonewall structures on Canadian landscape - Full story
Blacksmithing, still forging in the 21st century - Full story
Plowing the good old fashion way - Full story
Lighting our way through history - Full story
 
Wayback Times contributing writers
 
Roy Bassett Mary Brittain Janet Bryers
Melissa Collver Bob DeFreitas Anne Gilbert
Lian Goodall  Martin Howard Bruce Kirkland
Walter Lemiski Tom Iannelli Jim Ross
Rachel Sa Mike Smith Guylaine Spencer
Pat Stott-Prince Barbara Sutton-Smith Jim Trautman
Don Woodbury Ray Yurkowski
Wayback Times columnists:
 
All About Antiques, By Peter Green
Antique Detective, By Anne Gilbert
Cosway's Corner, By John Cosway
Editorial, By Sandy Neilly
Inside Antiques, By Robert Reed
Out To Lunch, By Peter Neilly
Wayback Wheels, By Aaron Neilly
 
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