Antiques Freaks

Unlock the knowledge of spooky scary skeleton keys! Goth as heck and so so affordable - bet you can't collect just one!

Our friend Nigel joins us for a behind-the-scenes look at a major thrift store chain. What becomes of antiques in the donation bin? Tune in to find out! Content warning for discussions of child endangerment and death.

We return with fantastic fanfare to our history of folding fans!

It's the classic 1980s British TV tale of a rogue antiques dealer (Ian McShane) solving antiques mysteries! Including cricket cages, coal carving, explosions, ambiguously gay fishermen, and the single most boring auction ever filmed.

Hi folks, Ken here! We had a minor medical emergency this past week - nothing to worry about, everyone is fine, but it did prevent podcast recording. So instead, we have the second chapter of the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire. You may remember chapter one from last October. Since then, we've been reading aloud a chapter a week over on our Patreon. And today, we release chapter two from the Patreon vaults. We hope to be back next week with a regular Antiques Freaks episode. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy!

One trading card. Half a million dollars. What? How? Why? Our friends Daniel and Jon join us for a round-table discussion about Magic: the Gathering, a trading card game of wizards, spells, and wildly unpredictable secondary markets. Including, but not limited to: Tinybones Trinket Thief, Rebecca Guay, and the infamous Black Lotus.

Summer heat got you down? Cool off with our historical look at vintage and antique advertising fans!

Join us for the third and final novella in the antiques-themed romance trilogy, wherein we find sewing machine valuations and a bizzaro-universe antiques convention!

Sarah Sews returns to tell us all about how Japanese street fashion became an international sensation with genuine vintage pieces and historically-inspired designs!

UK kitsch is here! Learn about the adorable Staffordshire ceramics company SylvaC and all the bunnies and puppies your heart can hold.

We return to the antiques romance trilogy The Boardwalk Antiques Shop to review the second novella in the collection, Solving for X! Fewer antiques than promised, and what remains is certainly... something.

From the kitchen drawers of yesteryear to the kitchen walls of today, it's jelly molds! Or gelatin molds. Or Jell-O molds. Pick yer poison.

Love is in the air! The Antiques Freaks return to reviewing antiques-themed fiction with the romantic novella trilogy The Boardwalk Antiques Shop by Julie Wright, Melanie Jacobson, and Heather B. Moore.

Are your pies soggy? Do you wish you had an adorable ceramic kitchen friend to ensure crisp crust? Are you in the market for a tiny porcelain bird, goat, or dragon? You're in luck, because pie birds are here!

The antiques are on point! The horror, not so much. This week the Antiques Freaks review the short horror story Stilton's Antiques by Bruce Blake. Haunted dolls, funerary relics, and spooky antics abound! Content warning for discussions of historical and fictional child death.

What did it take to get toast onto the breakfast table in the Victorian era? A lot. Like, a whole lot.

Beanie Babies, but make it home goods. It's time to cover the collecting frenzy over minimalist ceramics designer Rae Dunn.

Cracked a mug? Snapped a plate in half? Shattered a bone china teacup containing the soul of a Victorian workhouse orphan? Why not repair it... with STAPLES! (With bonus hints on why used car haggling doesn't work in the antiques world.)

Everyone's favorite Edwardian ghost-hunting Sherlock Holmes rip-off is back for another adventure! Together with Chris and Paris of the Terrible Book Club podcast, the Antiques Freaks delve into the spooky mysteries of the antiquarian book trade.

In 1770, master portraitist Thomas Gainsborough created a Rococo painting whose inexplicable universal appeal would echo on down through the ages into 20th century home decor and 21st century flea markets. Make room in your heart for this most splendid of boys!