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December 05, 2008

City Guide

Shopping - Antiques

Antiques

Our antique shops blithely blur the lines between 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 Too, has similar items along with well-selected furniture and dishes. Antelope Antiques on Liberty excels in Americana and, more unexpectedly, in Czech pottery. At Such a Find in Lamp Post Plaza you can find anything from etched antique crystal to the ceramic animals found in packages of Red Rose tea. Its other shop on Packard near Carpenter houses a large furniture collection.

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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