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The retro versions may read like curios now, but tucked inside is a very modern impulse: making something generous out of what you have.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

"They are just very charismatic, very playful, very social, very curios and very intelligent and that's why people love them," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

Lisa See began researching her landmark 1995 book “On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family” in the back room of F. Suie One, a curios and antiques store in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

The trick, though, is that visitors are allowed to handle the curios, as well as the accompanying index cards on which Tuttle has made notes about their provenance and formal qualities.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

Spoon Man traveled all over North Carolina, plying curios and cookware, tools and trinkets—and news.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper