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Stephen Gibbs began making Nantucket baskets shortly after Jose Reyes in the mid 1950s and...

The Right Whale is so often in the news of late as its numbers in...

The nature of a sailor’s life and work made them well suited to create distinctive...

Young America, like most of the world, was a segregated colony and country. That racial...

This has of been a very strange and trying time for us on an off-shore...

Thrifty New Englanders: Yesterday’s Rag Becomes Tomorrow’s Magic Carpet. Hooked rugs might be the all-time...

Third Annual Writing Contest with an Antiques Twist... Now For Adults Too! Posted on June 14,...

The Republic of Ireland is in desperate need of a philanthropic angel to preserve an...

The Remarkable ‘Time Capsule’ Apartment of Madame de Florian. Every once in an increasingly great...

Christmas in Ireland: The Christmas Panto. I admit it: I look forward to the annual...

A Festival of Christmas Trees. Christmas! That most wonderful time of year! The holidays start...

Know Your Netsuke. Everyone is intrigued by netsuke. Year after year people come through my...

The second annual "Antiques Depot Writing Contest... with an Antiques Twist" was a great success....

The second annual "Antiques Depot Writing Contest... with an Antiques Twist" was a great success....

The Antiques Depot is thrilled to be a part of this year’s Nantucket Book Festival....

I’ve been in the antiques business for about 30 years on Nantucket, and I’ve met...

The study of history often seems to be a continuous review of one long war...

A period drama is a right proper feast of antiques. The proper choice, use and...

We all see the world in our own way. Our senses and perceptions are unique,...

We began in the last blog to take a close look at elephant and walrus...