To say something is an antique delineates some kind of craftsmanship made precious as a result of age and rarity. The US Customs Office defines an antique as an object that is at least 100 years old. It was the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act which constituted an antique as a 'work of art (except rugs and carpets made after the year 1700), collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, works in bronze, marble, terra cotta, parian, pottery or porcelain, artistic antiquities and objects of ornamental character or educatioal value which shall have been produced prior to the year 1830.' That year heralded the beginning of mass production, and the definition makes the distinction between genuine antiques, vintage items and collectibles.
Do you L O V E the uniqueness of antiques as much as I do? They provide such a special link to those days gone by that cannot be replicated by modern artifacts no matter how hard we try. Old is old!
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