Welcome To NearAntiques
Welcome To NearAntiques
To many an "antique" is an object that has reached a certain age. Some may object when I say 100 years old as a yardstick to measure the age of an antique but I'll say it just the same.
What then are "NearAntiques"? Objects that are old enough to not be in production anymore but not old enough to be a true antique. Again the age is arbitrary but lets say more than 50 years old and less than 100.
Years ago in the 1940s & 1950s one could buy old things so very cheap at the auction sales. A dollar or two could buy the most wondrous things that would be very valuable today. Dad bought a round top (with additional leaves) claw foot solid oak dining table at auction for a very low price ($3.00?) and we ate on it for years until he bought Mother a new chrome dinette set. The oak table? It went to the dump.
Now the Oak Table would be an antique and the chrome dinette (if still around) would be a near antique.
If only these items (and many others) could have been saved. Yes, there is the monetary value but even more important there is the heritage of a day long gone by and of the true American Dream. Our heritage is based on such things as we live in a consumer driven society... to enjoy these utilitarian objects of the past gives us insight into our history.
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Pete Skeberdis