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Vintage Collectibles
Collections Bring Back MemoriesJanuary 31, 2013 - 2:43pm
Business Resolutions for 2013January 30, 2013 - 5:50pmAs the 2013 New Year emerges, antiques and collectibles sellers everywhere are facing the continuing bleak reality that our market area is one of the most devastated by our country’s persistently weak economy. It’s not that customers don’t want to spend, it’s that they just don’t have the resources they used to be able to spare on non-essentials -- and “antiques and collectibles” embodies the definition of non-essentials!
Remake this Room on Ruby Lane - Vintage Children's RoomJanuary 30, 2013 - 3:23pm"The Inspiration" |
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It is after Christmas and I am putting my kitchen back together. I have lots of stuff! Some would call it clutter, I call it My Collection. With the new ideas of minimization, young people see little value in the old. My older friends are talking of getting rid of their extras for it is too much bother and work they claim. I am not there yet.
“My Vintage Garden” celebrates gardens, nature and flowers in antiques, collectibles and jewelry. Included may be intriguing historical information, curious bits of folklore and a few useful gardening tips. Flowers have inspired art and design since ancient times, and their beauty, symbolism and sentimental meaning make our treasured collectibles even more precious.
Nine years ago our family business fell into postcard collecting and dealing after attending a local estate auction. We went looking for glass or pottery and came home with 10,000 postcards.
My grandparents lived 108 miles away from our home in Peoria, Illinois in the town of Kankakee. It was less than three hours away, but the early 1960s had no super highways, no hand-held video games, iPods, miniature DVD players, cell phones or lap top computers.
Many reproduction gas pumps and globes used during all eras of the internal combustion engine transportation era can be purchased new today. The example shown here is a fantasy that looks like a circa 1950 "8 Ball" Electric Gas Pump from the Wayne Pump Co.
It was a great trivia question and one I should have known the answer to. What super long Led Zeppelin song was the most requested song in the 1970s on FM radio stations in the United States but was never officially released as a single? All eyes at the table turned to me, the Oldies expert and record collector, but this was one I didn’t know.