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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Antiques cover the entire range from high quality Chippendale from the 18th century and out of the great houses of England to mass market 1924 American furniture (using 100 years old as the defining feature for what makes something an antique).

Each area of the antiques market has its own value and desirability so you can't paint everything with the same brush.

Overall, the very tippity top of the market, the 1% of antiques, sells for very high prices and has its buyers. But it is also weirdly distorted by the peculiarity of that world. A rich collector would buy a $25,000 table from a known dealer but will not buy the same table from you for $10,000. It's just the way it works.

Underneath that very top of the market, antique prices have definitely collapsed. [b]Your nicely upper middle class Georgian antiques that were being sold for $5,000 a chest in 1995 might sell for $1,000 today, on a good day. There's no shortage of pleasant and nicely made 18th and early 19th century antique side tables and chests and desks and chairs going for a few hundred up to a thousand. [/b]There's a bigger market for 18th century American antiques but even that market isn't wildly expensive. The local auction houses are flooded with them.

There is truth in that people really don't want antiques any more. [/quote]

Find any of this for me at these supposed prices and I’ll buy it all[/quote]

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