whatsitworth | March 14, 2013
For more than 40 years, The Gardens at Heather Farms has been a self-supporting non-profit educational garden in the East Bay. Comprising 6 acres, The Gardens feature 24 demonstration gardens offering adults and children exposure and courses relating to all aspects of horticulture. The butterfly garden delights preschoolers who identify useful bugs; the sensory garden [...]
whatsitworth | November 30, 2012
My husband purchased these chairs years ago in Paris because he thought they were wonderful. We brought them back to our home in Piedmont (decorated with French and English antiques) and realized they couldn’t blend into any of our rooms. They’ve been in storage for years and I’m downsizing and would like for them to [...]
whatsitworth | January 19, 2012
We are in possession of this lounge and are wondering if it is worth selling at auction. It has some wear (we are the second owners) and a tag that reads Knoll. From May 1929 through January of 1930 the Catalan city of Barcelona hosted an International Exposition; twenty European countries exhibited. For the first [...]
whatsitworth | November 21, 2011
My Dad sent me this bookcase when I became a lawyer, many years ago. He purchased it in 1946 from a used furniture store in New York City. The measurements are 51″high, 12″deep and 35″ wide. Each shelf comes apart, as well as the top & the bottom drawer. The glass is original. I have [...]
whatsitworth | March 24, 2011
I don’t remember where or when we acquired this wicker potty chair. We never used it as it was intended, but it’s lived in our house as a decoration ever since the long, long ago days when we had toddlers to toilet train. I’ve never been able to find anything with which to compare it. [...]
whatsitworth | March 1, 2011
Q. Over the years I seem to have acquired many what I would call “sick room” cups and spoons. I never meant to collect them but I bought the one pictured at a yard sale when my daughter graduated from nursing school and now, whenever friends see similar cups or spoons (like the one in [...]
whatsitworth | February 24, 2011
I hold an old and rather decrepit, but sound, piano from late 1700′s-early 1800′s (Regency Period??). Attached are a few pictures. I understand this is known as a “square piano” with 58 keys, on a separate (original) 4-leg stand. This was retrieved from an attic in England about 20 years ago. It had been in [...]
whatsitworth | December 2, 2010
When I lived in the Netherlands in the 1960s, I purchased an antique table at auction. Without being more specific, the auctioneer referred to the table as “French, from the era of Louie the hoop-de-do” (presumably to avoid a direct reference). This appellation has stuck during my half century with the table. I would be [...]
whatsitworth | June 17, 2010
Dear Jane, I’m wondering about a set of 8 1936 Kentucky Derby Glasses. They are from the estate of my husband’s grandfather, a genuine Kentucky Colonel and civic leader of Louisville, KY in the 1920′s through the 60′s. They have lived in the same china cabinet since at least the 1950s, according to my husband. [...]
whatsitworth | April 26, 2010
Greetings! I enjoy your column in the Daily Review, Hayward, California. You have me wondering about this so-called “obsolete musical instrument” that was left to me by my grandmother. It is a reed parlor organ in working order. My grandmother worked as a housekeeper/babysitter for many years. One of her clients gave her this organ [...]
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