Butternut wood was used to make this pie safe in about 1830. The star designs in the punched tin give it added value. It sold this year at Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, N.Y., for ,955. Go to an antique ...

Go to an antique show and you might see a pie safe, jelly cupboard or sugar chest. But most beginning collectors would call each a “cupboard” or “chest” with no idea how the furniture was originally ...

Part of the fun of antiques is learning about how people lived in the past. You can often find new uses for items whose purposes have become obsolete. This softwood cupboard with painted and punched ...

Take a look at Wendell D. Garrett's appraisal of a Walnut Pie Safe, ca. 1865, in Vintage Los Angeles. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines. Additional ...

Trying to find space for all the Thanksgiving leftovers brings to mind the abundance of food linked to the holidays. Tradition today suggests a menu of turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, creamed ...

Question: I bought this unusual cupboard at a country auction many years ago. It is wood with 12 punched tin panels and tulip and star designs. I have it in my kitchen and use it for storing cooking ...

Pie safes, vintage cookie jars, iron skillets, lanterns, pictures, a tin can tinman, cola memorabilia and vintage gun and fishing items are just a few of the finds in Beaverton’s recently opened ...

Back when baking meant chopping wood for the stove and an “ice box” was literally that, almost every kitchen had a pie safe. A simple, free-standing cabinet, a pie safe held baked goods behind punched ...