Antique tools are more than just relics of the past — they can also be resold for surprising amounts. While not every screwdriver or hammer will be worth a lot, some of these historical tools were ...

Vintage anything is often worth some considerable sums, but these vintage cookware pieces can command eyewatering amounts well in excess of $1,000.

Modern kitchens overflow with gadgets that promise to make cooking easier, faster, and better. Most of them end up shoved in the back of a drawer after a few uses, too specialized or too flimsy to ...

It's hard to not find some level of appeal in vintage tools. Whether you find charm in their classic designs or see the value in chronicling the evolution of mankind's ingenuity, a vintage or antique ...

Thousands of handcrafted antique tools that a retired woodworking teacher spent decades collecting but never used are worth more than $35,000. Roy Turnage, 88, spent years adding to his haul that ...

What is an heirloom? Traditionally families pass on things of value to the next generation, while the stuff of daily life—juice glasses, stepladders, clothes hangers—gets dumped in donation boxes or, ...

Brothers George and Henry Landis collected all sorts of tools that 18th- and 19th-century Pennsylvania German farmers used in the past. Their collection is the foundation of Landis Valley Village & ...

GENOA - Gayhart Swenson's wife of 59 years remembered how it began. "He's told me all our married life that when he retired he wanted just a little hole in the wall for his tools," Pat Swenson said.

There are two sides to the antique-tool market. Some buyers actually use the pieces that they buy because an old tool can be better for a skilled job than its modern equivalent. Others simply collect.

Time is money for a flat-rate auto mechanic, and for the DIY guy working on his car at home extra time isn't always an easy resource to come by. This fact brings us to the evolution of the basic open ...

Do you know what this antique tool, from the collection of the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, was used for? Jennifer Royer, the museum's curator, says the dimensions of the are 7 1/2 inches by 1 ...