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ANTIQUES: A Furniture Re-Awakening
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ANTIQUITIES: Leave It to the Romans
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COLLECTIBLES: Longing for Home
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ANTIQUE SPOTLIGHT: A Victorian Bedroom Necessity
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Bellefonte's Painted Ladies
                                        (The Victorian architecture of Bellefone, Pa)

CARING FOR COLLECTIONS: TBA

COLLECTING: On a Bicycle Built for One or Two
                             (Collecting antique bicycles)

READERS ASK: The All-American Organ
(Gem Roller Organs)

ANTIQUES GLOSSARIES: NA

BACK IN TIME: Clang, Clang, Clang Goes the Trolley
(Victorian trolleys--urban mass transit)

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