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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.
Recent Posts
Santa Supercedes Antiques!
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?
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.
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
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”
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
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...

