I have in my possession, something very unique...one of a kind and I am told by many antique experts, VERY valuable.I will tell you the story as I know it.A family here in Michigan owned it, the woman's great uncle was in the Korean War ( around the1950's ). Fell in love and married a Korean woman. ( not known at this time the maiden name ). As her wedding dowery, she was given these magnificent pieces of furniture, handed down through generations in her family. The couple had it crated and shipped to the United States after the war. The woman I obtained these from said she had inherited it and it had been in her family for about 20 years after the couple passed away.The Cabinet is MASSIVE, measuring over 8 feet wide by 77" tall and about two feet deep. I have never seen so much Mother of Pearl and abalone inlay in my LIFE as these pieces have. I have been told these were created somewhere in the 18th century.That is pretty much all I know about the pieces.The pictures really do NOT do them justice! It is spectacular!!The original mirror in the Vanity was broken years ago but I am having it replaced as we speak. This is a MATCHING set! The two pieces were verified as coming from the same artist. These would need to be in a good sized Master Bedroom and it would look incredible!

What I have here is a small glass bottle. It no longer has a lid, but it has this strange glass inner wall near the top of the inside of the bottle. It is clear, and stands 2 1/2" tall and the diameter of the opening is about an inch and a half. There are no company names on this bottle. On the bottom is inscribed patd 1759866. I'm really curious as to what this bottle was really used for. I've come into quite a few vintage and antique items lately, mostly glass- and I am just getting to know about the world of jars, bottles, and other breakable things. Grateful for any help, thanks.

Here is a really interesting piece of cookbook history lost. It is a book called "Papa Stahl's Wild Stuff Cookbook" and it talks of using rarely though of ingredients such as daylilly tubers, sassafras, cattail, acorn flour, and other items. The book has 39 pages, paperbound and stapled. I have a feeling that this item is a very rare example of this fascinating book. I have found a little bit of information about Papa Stahl on the internet but I haven't really run across much about this book. If anyone has any hints, I would welcome them.

I dug this little beauty up the other day. I've tried to find a price estimate, but have not found anything referring to the Hot Shot bottle. This and the fact that these bottles probably often got busted and almost always were thrown away. It has no lid, and has one small fracture chip on the lid. Otherwise, it is in great condition. Height of this bottle is about 8 1/4". Any feedback would be appreciated.

This is a strange item. At first I thought it was a target ball, then a lightning rod ball, now I have no idea. The whole ball stands about 3 1/4" tall. On the top is a rusted lid, which is about an inch in diameter. On the bottom is an interesting little node. It is round and then flat on the bottom. It extrudes about a quarter of an inch and has some screw thread wrapped around. The bottom is closed, and the top lid has a small hole in it and as stated before, is in rusted condition. The color is a nice sort of teal blue and it catches the light fantastically. If anyone can help me identify this strange little piece, I would really appreciate it.

This is a normal ball and claw amethyst bottle except when you look closer at the lettering on the side. Instead of "ball and claw", the bottle is imprinted with "ball amd claw" with the word and being mispelled. This looks to be a genuine ball and claw bitters bottle to me, just with a misspelling. Could someone please tell me if this is a genuine error or some sort of repro? Also, if it is an error, can you tell me how many are known to exist? The bottle is 8" tall and says "ball amd claw bitters" on BOTH sides of the bottle. On the bottom of the bottle it says "made in taiwan".