Antiques Freaks

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346 Ch. 27 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845) Sep 04, 2024

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While Ken recuperates, please enjoy this episode from our Varney vaults - wherein we discover the noble confidence of Flora Bannerworth in her lover, her opinion of the three letters, and the Admiral's admiration!

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345 Women Silversmiths with Carolyn Law Aug 28, 2024

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Carolyn Law takes Dee and Ken on an adventure throughout the hidden history of women silversmiths! Including Hester Bateman, Anne Tanqueray, Clara Barck Welles, and Frances Macbeth Glessner. Carolyn is a personal property appraiser with a specialization in silver, English, Irish, American Colonial and Federal; a collector of 18th century English silver, particularly by women silversmiths; an author of articles on silver and appraisal practice in Silver Magazine; and a member of the UK Silver Society.

You can learn more about Carolyn and her work at CarolynLawAntiques.com

344 Ch. 26 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845) Aug 21, 2024

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Please enjoy this chapter from our Varney vaults, wherein Charles Holland writes three letters - OR DOES HE!?

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343 Antiques Fraud! Earl Washington Woodblocks Aug 14, 2024

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Dee and Ken demonstrate a troubling lack of moral fiber in this fascinating tale of high art fraud! Once upon a time there was a truly excellent printmaker whose woodblock carvings and illustrations made viewers weep for their beauty. Unfortunately good art doesn’t pay. You know what does? Crime. Never apologize for your art.

342 The Terror (2018) - Historical Costuming with Hannah Aug 07, 2024

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Our old shipmate Hannah Haverkamp returns to regale us with the historical inspiration behind the costumes of The Terror! For all your age of sail, nautical, polar exploration, Victorian, historical-fiction-with-a-supernatural-twist needs. Featuring Royal Navy uniforms (and their lack of uniformity), Inuit engineering, and the thematic tragedy of Carnivale.

Hannah’s Sources

Parks Canada "Dressing For Arctic Expedition"
Terror Camp 2022 Keynote: Annie Symon (Costume Designer)
Terror Camp 2021 Panel D - Costuming: Alexa Figuerres (Uniforms and Undress), and Kit Barton (Carnivale)
"Tales of the Doomed Franklin Expedition Long Ignored the Inuit Side, But “The Terror” Flips the Script" - Kat Eschner, for Smithsonian
DRESSED TO KILL: BRITISH NAVAL UNIFORM, MASCULINITY, AND CONTEMPORARY FASHIONS 1748-1857 – Amy Miller
THE ROYAL NAVY 1790-1970 – Robert Wilkinson-Latham HOW TO READ A SUIT – Lydia Edwards

Ken’s Sources

Erebus by Michael Palin
Terrorspotting by Tealin on tumblr
every post collected under our Terror tag on tumblr

Dee’s Sources

‘Our ancestors returned home’: How a Chilkat robe made its way back to Southeast Alaska by Tripp J Crouse, KTOO
watching the ding-danged show The Terror (2018) season one on AMC

341 Ch. 25 - Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (1845) Jul 31, 2024

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Wherein Admiral Bell serves up a shaggy fish story that proves Charles Holland got his authorship talent from his uncle.

Please enjoy this episode from our Varney Vaults! To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

340 Magic Lantern and Chromatropes Jul 24, 2024

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Back in MY day (read: 18th and 19th century) we had to make our OWN Netflix! Uphill! Both ways! With hand-painted frame-by-frame animations spinning around an open flame! Kids these days don’t know how good they have it, or how shockingly affordable these handcrafted works of mechanical art have become on the secondary market.

339 The Hall and Staircase - Decorative Electricity with a Chapter on Fire Risks (1891) Jul 17, 2024

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Victorian interior decorating, now with electricity! Paris of Terrible Book Club joins the Antiques Freaks for a deeper dive into our old friend Decorative Electricity. Where once we presented you a Sparknotes summary, we now give you the full text of Chapter Three: The Hall and Staircase. Join us, won’t you? Thank you.

338 Ch. 24 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845) Jul 10, 2024

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"With a heightened colour she gently repulsed him."

Please enjoy this episode from our Varney Vaults! To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

337 Dough Boxes Jul 03, 2024

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When is a dough box not a dough box? Learn to tell the dough boxes from the doughn’t boxes with the Antiques Freaks!