Authors

Robert Reed

Robert and Claudette Reed have produced several books on antiques and collectibles over the years with particular focus on advertising and paper collectibles. Together they operate Antique and Collectibles News Service which provides illustrated articles to publications in the United States, Canada and Australia. They reside in Knightstown, Indiana.

David E Richter

After returning home from serving for the U.S. Army in Germany in 1965, David Richter discovered one small Tootsietoy CJ3 army jeep in an old desk drawer. Realizing this was the sole survivor from his childhood, he wanted to gather more toys and start a collection of America's first diecast toys. Thirty-nine years later at age 60, he still enjoys this popular hobby of collecting Tootsietoys.

Brenda Roberts

Brenda Roberts has been an antique collector since 1970, and in 1974 she focused her attention on The Hull Pottery Company of Crooksville, Ohio. Her collection numbers over 1,600 items and is one of the largest Hull collections in the country.

Jackie Robertson

Jackie Robertson was born in Idaho, in 1934. While growing up, she played with Nancy Ann Storybook dolls and enjoyed designing and making dresses for them. She attended college in Berkeley, California, where she met and married her husband. While their children were growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, she discovered that the dolls she had played with during her childhood had become quite collectible. She joined a local doll club, Doll Keepers of California, and has served as treasurer for eight years and is currently serving a second term as vice president. Today her collection of original factory dressed bisque Nancy Ann Storybook dolls numbers over a thousand dolls. She also collects the 18" Style Show dolls, along with Muffie and Debbie, Miss Nancy Ann, Little Miss, vinyl Sue Sue, and a few of the sleep eye/painted eye plastic Nancy Ann dolls. Jackie's interest has always been in the variety of fabrics used by the factory in costuming these little dolls. Her need to identify each doll with photographs that could then be shared with various other collectors can now be appreciated by all who will read and enjoy this book.

Julie Pelletier Robinson

Julie Pelletier Robinson, plastics historian, lives in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. She has written and lectured extensively on the subject of early plastics and was involved in the making of the A&E Modern Marvels documentary, "The History of Plastics." Julie is the co-author of the book Celluloid - A Collector's Reference and Value Guide. She currently works repairing celluloid toys at her studio in Upper Jay and may be reached by email at: celuloid@frontiernet.net.

Margaret Lynn Rosack

Margaret Lynn Rosack has been collecting trivets for 30 years, and has been the Trivet Worthologist for Worthpoint since August, 2008. She has authored two books on the subject for Collector Books: The A-Z Guide to Collecting Trivets (2004) and The Expanded A-Z Guide To Collecting Trivets (2010).
Her collection is constantly evolving as she purchases new trivets and stands to research. Currently she displays over 450 more unusual examples from the 1830s to 1980s in her home. Among her current favorites are antique wireware trivets and pressing iron stands; Jenny Lind trivets, which date from the Swedish Nightingale's American concert tour in 1850-1852; and early cast iron American trivets (many with Pennsylvania Dutch symbolism) dating to the early 1800s.

Here is a quote from her book: "Let me try and describe my fascination for trivets! They have so many appealing attributes. Most obvious would be their beauty of form. Then, there is the feel of the metal itself: strong, substantial, and enduring. And, ultimately, is the curiosity of wondering who previously owned the trivet ... how old it is ... where it has been ... and how it was used."

You can contact Lynn at P.O. Box 196697, Winter Springs, Florida 32719 or by email at mlcr@cfl.rr.com. Be sure to visit her website All About Trivets (containing her ongoing Blog, Trivetology) at: www.lynn.rosack.com Web site: http://www.lynn.rosack.com

Roger Rouland

Roger Rouland is a college instructor and freelance writer and editor based in Hebron, Illinois. He specializes in company histories and business-related articles and brochures. He co-authored Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture with Steve Rouland.

Steve Rouland

Steve Rouland is a 20th-century modern dealer and researcher from Peoria, Illinois. He and his wife Linda buy and sell Heywood-Wakefield Modern and other furniture and accessories from the modern period through their store “Lucky Lindy’s.” Steve co-authored Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture with Roger Rouland.

Nate Russell

Nate Russell has a background in the fine arts, having studied sculpture, photography, and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has worked professionally as art gallery curator, retail store and furniture showroom display artists, ornamental metalworker, and woodworker. He has been dealing in and collecting American vintage ceramics since 1990.

Cindy Sabulis

Cindy Sabulis is the owner of Toys of Another Time, a business specializing in dolls from the 1950s to 1970s. She sells at doll shows, through mail order, and via the Internet. Over the past 16 years she has written dozes of articles for doll and collectibles publications. She is author of Dolls of the 1960s and 1970s, Volumes I and II and co-author of the book Collector's Guide to Tammy, the Ideal Teen.