I’m back from Key West and I had an eventful week including a good share of Victorian sightseeing while I was there. It’s good to be back and I’m ready to get back into the Rare Victorian and digging into the minutiae of fine Victorian Furniture. I have to do a bit of work for the day job today even though I’m on vacation for another week, but I wanted to send out a quick note about Rare Victorian being profiled in the Hall Of Fame for Collector’s Weekly.

Collector’s Weekly is an all-encompassing collector’s site covering pretty much any category of collecting that you could imagine. Rare Victorian has been recently profiled in their Hall of Fame. I hope that over time (the site appears to be relatively new) they will expand their content to include informative articles (as the “Weekly” name implies). Right now the content is a bit light and is comprised mostly quick blurbs, reference links, profiles of other sites, and Ebay Affiliate links. I know full well how it takes time to develop a site to it’s full potential. Rare Victorian is only a fraction of what I’d like it to be today, but these things take time. Thanks again to Collector’s Weekly for inclusion in the Hall of Fame.

Congratulations are in order for Jason Flatt (you may have seen him as “1881Victorian” in the forum) who was the winner of the Century of Revivals giveaway. Thanks go out to all of you who registered to participate and I will be giving away more Victorian furniture-oriented items away in the future. Maybe some day this site can afford to give away furniture! We’ll just have to find a nice dealer out there who will want some extra exposure.

For those that can appreciate a some humor with a 19th century slant, I thought I’d introduce you to a blog that I ran into today that explores the world of 19th Century mustaches one albumin print at a time from the University of Kentucky Archives. Each photo is commented upon in a 19th Century vernacular and is quite comical. Worth a read.