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February 07, 2012
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Shopping - Antiques

Antiques

Our antique shops blithely blur the lines among antique, collectible, and you-had-to-be-there. On one weekend every month from Apr.-Nov., the enormous Ann Arbor Antiques Market at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds has all three types of items. Year round, Treasure Mart on Detroit St. has three floors of consignment furniture, jewelry, dishes, and tchotchkes.

The jewel of Ann Arbor antique stores is the Arcadian in Nickels Arcade. It's a sparkling, cultivated collection of jewelry, silver, porcelain, and a few other specialties like mint-condition vintage handbags. Its sister store on Main, Arcadian Antiques Boutique, has similar items along with well-selected furniture and dishes. Antelope Antiques on Liberty excels in Americana and, more unexpectedly, in Czech pottery. At Lucky Haskins Antiques & Oddities in Lamp Post Plaza, you'll find everything from comics and costume jewelry to Archie Bunker dolls and working desk phones from the 40s. Such a Find on Packard has a large furniture collection plus anything from etched crystal to the ceramic animals found in packages of Red Rose tea. Yesterday's Collection on Jackson Road store sells antique car and motorcycle memorabilia.

Out in Dixboro, a hamlet northeast of Ann Arbor, Gibbons Antiques is known for Evelyn Gibbons's indefatigable conversation and her room of antique buttons.




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