antiques
Topic 12 · 16 responses · archived october 2000
~KitchenManager
Sun, Jan 17, 1999 (11:34)
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~MarciaH
Mon, Aug 30, 1999 (20:11)
#1
Does the IO count?
~aschuth
Tue, Aug 31, 1999 (12:49)
#2
MARCIA!
~MarciaH
Tue, Aug 31, 1999 (15:28)
#3
Just asking...
~terry
Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (10:12)
#4
Speaking of antiques.
Has anyone seen the real neat tv show, Antique Roadshow?
They have folks dig out their treasures and bring them in for appraisal.
This show has been a sleeper hit.
~MarciaH
Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (13:15)
#5
Oh yes, one of my fav TV shows. I can remember the lady who found an old helmet in the rafters of her house and it was 15th century Spanish worth $250,000...!
~wolf
Thu, Sep 2, 1999 (20:12)
#6
i've seen that show, but i find it boring at times. esp. when someone brings in a piece of junk and hopes it's worth millions. i wonder how greedy some people can be.
~terry
Fri, Sep 3, 1999 (08:09)
#7
Wah! I don't have any old stuff in my attic!
~Isabel
Fri, Sep 3, 1999 (13:22)
#8
Want some of mine?
~MarciaH
Fri, Sep 3, 1999 (23:55)
#9
In Hawaii we have neither attics nor basements and very few garages. My "stuff" is in the spare room under tons of junk. I have no idea what is really in there!
~aschuth
Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (10:23)
#10
So go investigate!
Welcome, Isabel! Are you a pack rat, too? What do you collect?
~Isabel
Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (15:38)
#11
Haha - "packrat" - I know one...
No, I'm more a kind of a magpie. I must have everything that looks nice or is glittering or somehow funny or just interesting. So I don't collect special items, but I have a huge collection of "things without any use", you know stuff that doesn't really do anything, like old toys, little vases, porcellain, glassthings, linen, a teamill (!)...God's sake I don't collect little porcelain or ceramic figurines or old elctronic stuff like some of my friends do.
Oh, and sometimes I buy records, too.
What fleemarket-stuff do you fall for?
~Isabel
Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (15:38)
#12
Haha - "packrat" - I know one...
No, I'm more a kind of a magpie. I must have everything that looks nice or is glittering or somehow funny or just interesting. So I don't collect special items, but I have a huge collection of "things without any use", you know stuff that doesn't really do anything, like old toys, little vases, porcellain, glassthings, linen, a teamill (!)...God's sake I don't collect little porcelain or ceramic figurines or old electronic stuff like some of my friends do.
Oh, and sometimes I buy records, too.
What fleemarket-stuff do you fall for?
~wolf
Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (18:17)
#13
i love antiques, but i don't know the first thing, nor am interested enough to do the proper research....i used to prowl through local antique shops but only the furniture interested me and i didn't know if it was worth the prices or not, so i didn't buy anything. (oh, except for a brush and comb set that i got suckered into)...
and glad to see you over here, too, isabel...is a magpie the same as a raven? i know ravens like glittery shiny things....sounds like you have an eclectic collection of things that appeal to you that don't belong in any one category. shall i open a topic for that?
~wolf
Sat, Sep 4, 1999 (18:29)
#14
and introducing, just for folks like you, isabel, a topic for all that junk you love:
http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/collecting/45
it's called Mish Mosh
~aschuth
Sun, Sep 5, 1999 (05:32)
#15
Hey, great! Isabel - that sounds interesting... Show us some pics of your useless stuff - send them to Wolf, she knows how to do this (proof: Barbie-topic, where I haven't seen any new stuff lately - WOLF!)
~wolf
Sun, Sep 5, 1999 (14:35)
#16
*blush* i'm trying ovah hee-uh!