Antiques are Great to Collect or Display

It is understood that all antiques are old, but what is often misunderstand is that not everything, which is old is necessarily an antique. Additionally, different types of items become considered an antique at different ages.

The original manufacturer’s quality has a lot to do with the value of antiques, but the individual taste of the collector determines its value. However, when most people hear antiques their first thought is of antique furniture. Most items are considered antiques if they were originally made by hand.

Many of today’s furniture products over a 100 years from now would be poor representation of antiques as most are made primarily my automated machines. The same could be true with glass antiques. Over 100 years ago, a glass bottle was blown by hand, using a pontil rod to blow air into molten glass. It was shaped as it was blown.

Today, many glass items, even replicas of older bottles, are made in a mold with the molten glass poured in. A hundred years from now those bottles will be 100 years old, but they will not necessarily be classified as antiques.

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