“Antique” no longer holds the ... S.B., Lake Oswego A. Your cabinet appears to date from the last quarter of the 19th century. It is probably English and is in the Renaissance Revival style.

The kaleidoscope was the iPhone of the 19th century, reckons British designer ... Wood’s Meisen Tall cabinet (left) and Meisen Caterpillar cabinet. “So I digested all of this stuff together ...

The headline curio is Lady Cust’s great auk egg—a unique specimen from the penguin-like flightless bird that went extinct in the mid-19th century ... and a British antique dealer.