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Collecting Antiques

Antiques by true definition are of an age of at least one hundred years. This definition has been reduced to more of a guideline and is up to interpretation as antiques increased in popularity and demand and the volume of readily available antiques of quality and age diminished, the definition became broader and broader. Now, in the U.S. especially, dealers who buy and sell antiques often sell collectables as antiques and items that are really more vintage than antiques and are sometimes as young as 50 years.

An example of this in in the case of antique furniture. Take furniture from the fifties with its distinct styles and colors. This furniture is often seen for sale in antique stores or malls, but is obviously not one hundred years old as it came from the fifties of the twentieth century so it is less than sixty years old, yet commonly included in the group known as antique furniture.

Another example is in the case of antique dolls. Some Madame Alexander dolls that or a mere fifty years old are bought and sold as antique dolls. True, this is only semantics and whether a particular item of a collectable nature is fifty years old or a hundred years old only matters if it matters. A doll collector who is primarily interested in antique dolls might very well include a few of the very collectable Madame Alexander dolls just because they are classic. Like Victoria, for instance or the Vogue doll named Ginny that was enormously successful in the fifties and is very collectible today.

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