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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Curious Objects”

Curious Objects: The “Confirmed Bachelor” Who Forever Changed American Homes

Editorial Staff July 3, 2024 Curious Objects

Host Benjamin Miller digs into the history of Beauport, the Gilded-Age mansion perched on a rock ledge overlooking Massachusetts’s Gloucester Harbor.

Curious Objects Whale Teeth and the Pirate Princess

Editorial Staff June 12, 2024 Curious Objects

Under discussion in this episode are a pair of sperm whale teeth bearing depictions of what look like female pirates.

Curious Objects: Are trends sooo over?

Editorial Staff June 5, 2024 Curious Objects

Are collectors still entranced by trends, or has the algorithm swayed our passions? Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller explores historical design trends…

Curious Objects: Discovering a Forgotten Folk Artist and a Secret Code Book at the Independence Seaport Museum

Editorial Staff May 15, 2024 Curious Objects

Host Benjamin Miller is introduced to an amazing folk art watercolor depicting the father of the US Navy…

Curious Objects: A Precious 17th-Century Kleenex

Editorial Staff May 8, 2024 Curious Objects

Elena Kanagy-Loux, co-founder of the Brooklyn Lace Guild, talks Renaissance lace and all its wonders.

Curious Objects: Rescued by the Romanovs, a Fabergé Treasure Comes to Market

Editorial Staff May 1, 2024 Curious Objects

The Romanov dynasty was wiped out in 1918 . . . but what happened to all their stuff? We have the details on Heritage Auction’s sale of Romanov treasures.

Curious Objects: Advice Ep: How to Buy an Antique/Vintage Rug

Editorial Staff April 25, 2024 Curious Objects

Everything you need to know about how to buy an antique rug, including the surprising origins of the world’s best carpets.

Curious Objects: CO Bites: A Pitch-Perfect Vermont Songbook

Editorial Staff April 10, 2024 Curious Objects

In this Curious Objects Bites episode, Benjamin Miller examines an 1830s manuscript tune book from rural Vermont.

Curious Objects: The Book of Dragons (and the Con Artist Who Made It), with Rebecca Romney

Editorial Staff March 27, 2024 Curious Objects

Meet the Sobieski Stuarts, two eccentric book publishers who produced a fantastical dragon-themed abecebestiary (alphabet book).

Curious Objects CO BITES: Toshiko Takaezu’s “Closed Form,” with Glenn Adamson

Editorial Staff March 13, 2024 Curious Objects, Exhibitions

Glenn Adamson returns to the podcast to talk about the work of Okinawan-American ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu, and in particular one unique “closed form” vessel.

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