Author: Deanna
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What’s The Difference Between “Antique,” “Vintage,” & “Retro”?
Helping buyers, collectors, and, yes, antique dealers, vintage sellers, and resellers, with industry facts. In the strictest sense, age is the difference between antique, vintage, and retro items. Antiques are items which must be at least 100 years old. That means, as of the date of this posting, an antique item was made on or before…
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To Eat A Chocolate Dirigible
Back in the day, in ye olde candy shoppe, when you went to buy chocolates, you would see little shapes like these sitting in front of little candy boxes. Made from the same molds as the candies themselves, these little plaster pieces indicated the shape and size of the offerings. One imagines such visual depictions…
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Sales & Music At The Fargo Flea Market!
It’s time for the annual June flea market at Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market! That means, along with all the dealers, we will be having sales inside. Our YES booths,#25-27, will be 20% off. And the LunaTique Art Gallery, Occult, & Oddities space, code ART in booth #55, will be 10% off. We also will…
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Falling In Mush Love
Part of my job as an antiques dealer (or vintage seller, if you prefer) is to properly clean, research, and identify reclaimed and discovered items in order to best present these old things to potential buyers. Continually making discoveries, uncovering new-to-me stories is one of my favorite parts of this gig. But sometimes, as I’ve…
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This Week’s Story: Smells Like Grandma (Spirit)
(If you prefer, you can listen to this as a podcast! Smells Like Grandma, episode 1 – 5.) A few weeks ago I spent the weekend washing out old perfume bottles. Well, technically, washing vintage & retro figural eau de cologne bottles – because perfume rarely comes in such bottles. Which is why most of…
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This Week’s Story: Paint By Numbers & Wundertüte
Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques, here with This Week’s Story, and I am a paint by number collector. (If you’d prefer, you can listen to the podcast here.) Many mock paint by number paintings, saying the works are kitsch – meaning they are of poor taste. Even those who love kitsch in…
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This Time Of Year…
This time of year, we must remind you: Nothing haunts us like the junk we didn’t buy. * But it’s true all year ’round! https://youtu.be/FbEadqywFeA
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This Week’s Story: It Was The 80s – Even Lingerie Had Shoulder Pads
This Week’s Story is prompted by a vintage piece of lingerie. You can listen to the audio podcast here. This particular lingerie piece, in a powder blue satin, is more slinky sleepshirt than naughty negligee. With its built-in shoulder pads and double-breasted suit jacket front, this nightie looks more like an oversized power suit jacket…
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This Week’s Story: Man Enough For Pink
Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques. This Week’s Story is a little bit different… It’s still about an object, just not one for sale. And it’s also a story for the month, as you’ll see. A reminder: You can listen to This Week’s Story as a podcast! Due to it being Breast Cancer…
