Pillows

ABERDEEN, Miss. – Stevens Auction Company will conduct its Spring Multi Estate Antique Auction on Saturday, April 9. Offered will be lifelong collections of antique furniture, porcelains, rugs, clocks, 19th-century lighting, vintage cars, works of art and Southern finery. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK — After years of deprivation and rationing in the 1940s, postwar America was a heady time, marked by a booming economy that saw an explosive demand for consumer goods. The mood was optimistic as people returned to the workforce in droves and by the end of the 1950s, most families had at least […]

NEW YORK – Today, people commonly sleep on pillows filled with foam or feathers. Yet scores of pillows retrieved from Chinese Tang, Song and Ming Dynasty tombs (618-c1600) are made of cold, smooth, rock-hard porcelain. Archeologists believe that, like funerary utensils, kitchen vessels and weaponry, these figured in everyday life.