Today’s collectibles start the new year with diverse submissions from our readers. Included this month are a collector’s most unusual collection centerpiece, an excellent estate sale find, and three ...

Rancho Palos Verdes resident Robin Biggins is a tinkerer. But not with fixing up old cars or reviving someone’s old washing machine. Biggins is a master mechanic who repairs antique automatons and ...

Question: We have an antique Swiss cylinder music box that is damaged and will no longer work. Is there someone we can contact about repairing it? — Leesburg Answer: Doug Wiggins, who works out of his ...

A few weeks ago, while visiting a friend, I was treated to the sounds of a record containing music taped from a barrel organ and a music box, titled "The Road to Heaven -- Mechanical Music for a ...

Inside a 16,000-square-foot, red-brick and sheet-metal building lies a treasure trove of antique automated musical instruments and machines once popular in parlors, drawing rooms, restaurants and ...

Gerry Wright never realized a meeting with antiques dealer Rita Ford would turn into a lifelong career. But when the freelance musician needed a steady job, he saw how his lifetime of tinkering and ...

Rancho Palos Verdes resident Robin Biggins is a tinkerer. But not with fixing up old cars or reviving someone’s old washing machine. Biggins is a master mechanic who repairs antique automatons and ...

It was more than 40 years ago that Peter Fritsch first became fascinated with antique music boxes. The now-retired Reading art teacher was in ninth grade. His teacher, Eleanor Bieber, set a brown, ...

The best thing about writing this column is the amazing things people send in and how much I learn with the help of so many generous people out there willing to share their knowledge and expertise.

We did not always have electronics to give us our music. And at one time, our music was not nearly as portable as it is today. Mike Stevens traveled the Pennsylvania Road to Wayne County to listen to ...