In 2016 I designed a t-shirt for some history friends and it was a hit. Over time, I added more designs and more types of products based on what I liked and was proud to offer. Nearly everything you see in The History List Store is our original design. In the case of prints, they are either new designs or high-quality reproductions of historic prints.  And nearly everything is made in America.

At about the same time I started The History List Store I started buying one-of-a-kind pieces for my home that I found in markets and auctions.  (Some of those pieces are pictured below.)

Traveling throughout New England I am amazed at the breadth and depth of high quality pieces. Having lived in the mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Southwest, I knew that what was available here in New England was unmatched, and I thought others would be interested, too.

In mid-2023 we offered a few select items to a small number of our customers. Each was in a special mailing to our best customers. Pieces sold in minutes or at most a couple of hours.

What you see on the Rare Finds page are some of the items we’ve offered.

They are never announced there, however.

Instead, they are announced in our Rare Finds alerts, which go out via e-mail roughly once or twice every month or two at 9 pm Eastern on a Thursday and typically feature one item in the $400 – $4,000 range. And while we send our Insiders mailing by time zone, our Rare Finds alerts go out to everyone across the country at the same time so everyone has the same chance to purchase the item.

You can sign up on the Rare Finds page.

If these kinds of things are of interest to you, I hope you’ll sign up, and I look forward to hearing what you think.

— Lee Wright | Founder