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dartfreak75

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I stoped by the local antiques store today and that place was amazing i cant believe iv lived this close to that place my whole life and dont go more often. I have been there before when I was younger and just wasn't into it i guess but now that im older i was amazed at the cool stuff i was in there for hours. I didn't buy anything but i could have spent a fortune lol. I loved all the old cans and bottles and tools and baseball cards etc. There was a crap ton of glassware and plates (china) not my thing but still cool. The antique license plates were really cool.
 
pullllllleeeeze. Near bout every piece of furniture in our house is an antique. Unfortunately, when Kitty and I met, I had the house I grew up in and all of Mama's antique furniture.......so........Kitty had to keep on that tradition. LOL Honestly though, she's good at it. She won't buy a thing unless it's a screamin deal.
 
That is really cool tho. Antique furniture just has a story. Sitting in a 100+ year old chair where your ancestors sat.... thats just amazing. Am I weird? Lol
 
My whole house is also decorated I antiques, thanks to my wife, we love old nostalgic stuff.

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I collect the dealer promotional model cars, mopars. late 60's/early 70's mostly
 
We found this old cast iron stove a few years back, mine carries over to the outside too.

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I collect old beer signs/lights etc so I get the appeal. I'm always looking at garage sales, estate sales, Craigslist and FB marketplace. Lots of people are into nostalgia or things that they had when they were young. I saw my lunchbox from elementary school one day and it was like seeing an old friend. I'm like Rob's wife, I won't buy anything for retail. Stay out of the antique malls and shops unless you just want to look.
 
I've collected Cookie jars, Planters, flower pots, picked up a pie safe for $50 cleaned it up and it now sits in our dining room full of old dishes.
 
If you live in a 100 year old house you have to have a few antiques. We decorate with old stuff. Rolling pins and green and cream utensils in the kitchen along with some old glassware. We have a quarter sawn oak library table, a fainting couch, and a few 20's chairs in the living room. I have a few slag glass lamps as well. I have a candlestick phone setting on one of the many old tables in the room. I have a matching pair of glass oil lamps on the fireplace mantel. The dining room is all Chippendale furniture including a buffet, china cabinet, and a gentleman's server. In our (messy) library we have a 1909 Price and Teeple mahogany upright piano. It's a beautiful piece that needs some repairs. Most of them do! I have about a dozen oil cans just for fun. Not the pump kind but the drip type like you would go with a sewing machine. Hell, I'm over 50. I'm a antique!
 
An example of what I collect. As old as the REAL car, and like the real car, was only available at the dealership. Original model with it's original box. 49 years old

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dartfreak75 said:
I stoped by the local antiques store today and that place was amazing i cant believe iv lived this close to that place my whole life and dont go more often. I have been there before when I was younger and just wasn't into it i guess but now that im older i was amazed at the cool stuff i was in there for hours. I didn't buy anything but i could have spent a fortune lol. I loved all the old cans and bottles and tools and baseball cards etc. There was a crap ton of glassware and plates (china) not my thing but still cool. The antique license plates were really cool.
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Careful its a disease. Too late for me as im in the antique/collectible biz. now. lol

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toolmanmike said:
I'm afraid to start collecting the beer stuff. I have a few dozen Beer steins and maybe a hundred shot glasses. Oh, I have 2 Victrola's as well.
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I have an Edison Victrola that belonged to my Great Grandparents. I do have some other antiques, but the beer stuff is what I have most of.
 
toolmanmike said:
If you live in a 100 year old house you have to have a few antiques. We decorate with old stuff. Rolling pins and green and cream utensils in the kitchen along with some old glassware. We have a quarter sawn oak library table, a fainting couch, and a few 20's chairs in the living room. I have a few slag glass lamps as well. I have a candlestick phone setting on one of the many old tables in the room. I have a matching pair of glass oil lamps on the fireplace mantel. The dining room is all Chippendale furniture including a buffet, china cabinet, and a gentleman's server. In our (messy) library we have a 1909 Price and Teeple mahogany upright piano. It's a beautiful piece that needs some repairs. Most of them do! I have about a dozen oil cans just for fun. Not the pump kind but the drip type like you would go with a sewing machine. Hell, I'm over 50. I'm a antique!
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We have been this house and it’s beautiful, you guys have done a great job ❤️
 
BrianT said:
I collect old beer signs/lights etc so I get the appeal. I'm always looking at garage sales, estate sales, Craigslist and FB marketplace. Lots of people are into nostalgia or things that they had when they were young. I saw my lunchbox from elementary school one day and it was like seeing an old friend. I'm like Rob's wife, I won't buy anything for retail. Stay out of the antique malls and shops unless you just want to look.
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I collect some old beer stuff too. Just a sample of my things.
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That place had a crap load of old beer cans bottles and memorabilia.
 
I remember seeing a dart sport dealer promo car on ebay one time i thought if that was a swinger id buy it lol i wish I would have now at the time i didnt know the significance of them.
 
dartfreak75 said:
I remember seeing a dart sport dealer promo car on ebay one time i thought if that was a swinger id buy it lol i wish I would have now at the time i didnt know the significance of them.
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Unfortunately, they never made a swinger dealer promo. Promos are crazy in price. These Mopars from the 60's and 70's in great condition can range from the bottom end of 40 bucks to 700.00++ bucks, with maybe 1 or two reaching 2500 bucks. Even certain colors can double the price on the rare ones.

But I don't collect them for value, I collect them and display them in my living room because they're Mopars, and were at the dealership the same time the real ones were in the showroom. Not to mention, me and my brothers have owned several of the real ones... :)
 
Wait til you see a licence plate with your graduating year in an antique mall!!
 
dartfreak75 said:
That is really cool tho. Antique furniture just has a story. Sitting in a 100+ year old chair where your ancestors sat.... thats just amazing. Am I weird? Lol
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Not at all. We have some furniture that was obtained from George Washington at Valley Forge. An ancestor of my wife delivered a load of corn to the troops there and they only way the Continental army had to pay was with furniture taken from George Washington’s headquarters. We inherited that very dining table and chairs that the General himself one sat in to take meals.

It now sits in our dinning room. Try sitting at that table and not feel the history flowing through you!

We tried to donate it to the Valley Forge museum and they confirmed it with the Quartermaster records. They told us to keep in in our family and enjoy it as all of the original furniture remaining from then was stored in the vault in Princeton and would never be on display. Everything at the museum is a replica. The real ones are considered to be National treasures.

It is now a family treasure to be kept and cared for forever.
 
Ddaddy said:
Not at all. We have some furniture that was obtained from George Washington at Valley Forge. An ancestor of my wife delivered a load of corn to the troops there and they only way the Continental army had to pay was with furniture taken from George Washington’s headquarters. We inherited that very dining table and chairs that the General himself one sat in to take meals.

It now sits in our dinning room. Try sitting at that table and not feel the history flowing through you!

We tried to donate it to the Valley Forge museum and they confirmed it with the Quartermaster records. They told us to keep in in our family and enjoy it as all of the original furniture remaining from then was stored in the vault in Princeton and would never be on display. Everything at the museum is a replica. The real ones are considered to be National treasures.

It is now a family treasure to be kept and cared for forever.
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Wow that is a really cool story. I couldn't imagine sitting in that chair what that must feel like. Very cool.
 
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