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Antiquing Insider: Appetizers to Inform your Antique Adventures

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Daily antique appetizers that will whet your curiosity and inform your antique adventures!

Vancouver Island Antiques is a loose association of antique dealers on the West Coast of Canada.

• Added on: Oct 11th, 2009
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: Elizabeth Campbell Duke
• Listed in: Antiques Lifestyle
• Tags: collectibles antiques home decor antique vancouver island

Recent Posts

• Santa Supercedes Antiques!

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 11:16 in antiques, antique fairs

  My mind isn’t on antiques anymore, as we have our first Christmas guests with us and the teenaged boys arriving on Saturday. We’re all about Christmas now at our place, and showing off some of the tourist attractions and activities in our...

• Help! What IS an Antique? Collectible? Junque? or Junk?

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 11:58 in china, antiques, home decor, antique furniture, antique fairs, antique appraisals

  I spent a day at the BC Cancer Foundation’s 2nd Annual Christmas of Hope Antiques & Collectibles Extravaganza. (Inhale, here.)  There was a considerably lower turnout for the Antique Appraisal event on Saturday than in the past and during ...

• VIADAV: Vancouver Island Antique Dealers Against Viagra.

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 07:03 in china, environment, style, Eco-friendly, antiques, home decor, vintage jewelry, vintage clothing, seasonal, madmen, antique furniture, sterling silver

  If you can’t see the video, click here. Next week: Antique Erotica. (Lots of shops listed to the right will be happy to sell you porcelain figurines, oil lamps and little spoons while you wait for your doctor’s appointment.) ...

• Get a Little Bling for Your Holiday Spirits

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 07:50 in environment, style, Eco-friendly, antiques, home decor, sterling silver, green gifts, victorian era, modern era, holiday decor, eco-friendly gifts, renaissance era

  Thanks to Blinking Star Antiques, Box 365, 5527 S. Island Highway, Union Bay, British Columbia 250-335-2255 Hours: By Chance or Appointment Specializing in Sterling Silver. Many pieces available online (www.BlinkingStar.ca). British silver decante...

• Keeping Christmas Green and Out of the Red II: Antique “Sushi Sets”

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 07:41 in china, environment, style, Eco-friendly, antiques, home decor, green gifts, victorian era, eco-friendly gifts

  In a previous post , J.R.’s Discontinued China (on Antique Row in Victoria, BC) advised that you should NEVER break up a set of China.  But what are rules for if not to be broken? J.R.’s also advised that if you were trying to sell a set...

• Eighteenth Century Holiday Traditions

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 08:13 in environment, antiques, seasonal, victorian era, holiday decor, renaissance era

  I wondered why there was so much information on Victorian Christmas traditions and very little on earlier traditions. The resources I found are listed below, and are definitely worth reading. Society in the 18th Century had no significant middle cl...

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