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Photos are analyzed on the spot and not stored. Clear, close-up shots of marks and patterns work best.

Reference guides

Roseville, McCoy, Hull, and friends — the stamps, the fakes, and how to read a bottom in five seconds.

Hobnail vs. thumbprint vs. coin dot. Fenton, Anchor Hocking, and the carnival glass rainbow.

Dovetails date furniture better than labels do. Hand-cut, machine-cut, stapled — a timeline in wood.

Sterling, coin, EPNS, and the lion passant. How to tell $2-a-piece plate from $30-an-ounce silver.

Griswold, Wagner, gate marks, and the three notches. Why grandma’s unmarked skillet might still be gold.

Union labels, RN numbers, Big E Levi’s, and care tags. The paper trail sewn into every garment.