Daylight Savings is about to end and it's all a matter of time in today's What's It Worth, as readers ask questions about their small clocks.

The items readers ask about in today's What's It Worth are mechanical marvels -- in their own way.

Merchandise giveaways have become pretty common in modern business. There are two-for-one specials at department stores and after-purchase rebates on everything from cell phones to wine.

Among fond childhood memories is the Christmas the electric train set was under the tree.

The majority of men shave every day, using multi-blade modern razors or battery-operated devices that look like they were designed by engineers at NASA.

Today's What's it Worth answers readers who have questions about pottery items that come from two different countries.

Music is on the minds of What's it Worth readers this week. One of today's questions is about a once-famous and now nearly forgotten musician who helped create jazz. And there's a guitar in Wenatchee that not only still plays well, but also is worth quite a tidy sum.

Tuesday is the 79th renewal of the midsummer classic, Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game. This year, the event takes place at Yankee Stadium.

The Beatles were a cultural and musical phenomenon that hit the U.S. at the beginning of 1964.

Readers have questions today about two items tied to Pacific Northwest history. One is by a world-famous early day photographer.

Q. Our little pig-shaped flask has a story to it.

Q. This has been in the family for more than 50 years. The lock on the front has "July 9, 1889 pat. pending." We are moving on out of town and the trunk is just too big to take with us. Can you give an estimate of its value, if any? Thank you in advance for your anticipated assistance. -- Mark in Pasco

What's It Worth today takes a look at two quite different items. One dates to Prohibition in America, the other could have been used by a preacher advocating Prohibition.

Several months ago What's It Worth answered a question about the value of modern Western riding spurs. In responding, we noted authentic "used-on-the-range" cowboy items are hot in the marketplace these days.

Q. I have seven of these silver dollars, each has a date of 1922. Some have a mint mark "S," others have no mint mark at all. I know these probably are collectible. My question is: Has the recent jump in the price of silver made them all the more valuable? -- Martin in West Richland

"East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet," said Rudyard Kipling. They surely don't meet often, but East and West come together in today's What's It Worth, as we respond to reader's questions about their Western spurs and a very fancy table from much further east.

This year will mark its share of milestones, some good, some not so.

In today's What's It Worth, readers ask about a wall-mounted vending machine that dispensed Hershey's chocolates and an unusual piece of sporting "art" that's become collectible and valuable.

Glass -- as common as sand; as valuable as platinum.

In the last What's It Worth, we said art is generally divided into two categories; fine art and decorative art. Valued for a Waitsburg reader was his watercolor painting by Seattle artist as an example of fine art. Today, let's look a piece of American art glass that would be in the decorative art category

Art, generally, is divided into two categories; fine art and decorative art. Fine art is defined as that which is "created purely for aesthetic expression." The best examples are paintings and sculpture.

Q. We received this hand-cranked Stradivara brand console phonograph from my late father's estate. The story is that it probably dates from the early 1920s. It came with about 100 78 rpm records and some early catalogs of available records. Can you tell us something about values? -- Barbara in Kennewick.

Decorative and utilitarian items made of clay have been around for centuries. Today's What's It Worth features one item from each category.

Roadshow reminder

In today's What's It Worth, we take a look at a mini cooking pot that looks like a toy and a small toy that may be looking for a home.

Q. As a child in Boise, I saved my allowance money to buy Nancy Drew mystery books. At one time, I think I owned all the first series. Today, there's one left, Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock. The condition seems good and the dust jacket still is present, although a bit tattered. Inside, it says the book was published in 1930. Do these have much value? -- May in Pasco

For decades, from the early part of the 20th century up until the 1950s and 60s, California potteries large and small were an important force in the marketplace.

Toys and games are hot collectibles these days. Readers who regularly watch the Antiques Roadshow on TV see examples from all over the world and in all prices ranges. In today's What's it Worth, we review a board game based on a popular TV western of the 1950s and there is also a robot roaming about!

Probably the strongest area in the entire antiques and collectibles field over the past 15 years has been fine art.

A couple of summers ago, I spent a night in Granite. It was during a Montana fishing trip and Granite seemed as good a place to stop as any of the alternatives. I was alone and rolled out my sleeping bag under the stars near a store. Or, it had been a store, way back when.

A couple of summers ago, I spent a night in Granite. It was during a Montana fishing trip and Granite seemed as good a place to stop as any of the alternatives. I was alone and rolled out my sleeping bag under the stars near a store. Or, it had been a store, way back when.

It doesn't seem to matter where in the world they're working, archaeologists always are finding shards of pottery, and even complete pots, in their excavations.

It's Easter and Christians are encouraged to make a "joyful noise" in Psalms. In today's What's it Worth our items are part of the nonsecular version of the "joyful noise." One is strictly political in origin, the other is a musical instrument invented in France, by a Belgian. It could be argued that the saxophone is one of the founding instruments of American jazz.

The calendar is about to flip over to March, and daylight savings time will start March 11; it must be almost spring. Another way to tell is the start of Major League spring training. And, fishing season in many eastern Washington lakes opens soon. So it's appropriate today's What's it Worth deals with baseball and fishing items.

An item doesn't have to be really old to have value. Today in What's it Worth, we respond to one reader who has crazy quilts which may have been stitched more recently than she thinks. Another asks about her figurines, made by a California company that went out of business a mere 30 years ago.