By null — Mystery of the tea kettle One the first people to post an item on Show & Tell was a visitor named New_to_2nd_Hand_Greatness. "I went to my first ever flea market yesterday," the visitor wrote, "and this teapot jumped out at me. It's just awesome." But New_to_2nd_Hand_Greatness was troubled: "Here's the problem: I can't find anything like it at all, anywhere. As far as I know it might have been purchased at Walmart 2 months ago or purchased 65 years ago and lovingly cared for." Who solved...

The Colors of Fiesta

By Maribeth Keane — I started as a collector and I’m a web designer, so I thought I would design a website from my passion. I threw it up there and people just found me and it started to take off. Fiesta is made in West Virginia, and I’m from West Virginia originally. I was a thrift store fanatic in college, and I would see this unmarked colored dishware that just really caught my eye. That was probably Riviera, because Fiesta would be marked. People would know Fiesta, but Riviera wouldn’t be marked, so...