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That's why she'd gone into antique studies in the first place.

To be sure, there were not many antique television shows available for study then.

It's not really antique, but it would make a good period set.

At close range it looked even more antique than before.

That antique medical book was the best investment I ever made.

Maybe I will turn the whole place into an antique shop!

I found them in an antique shop a few months ago.

The old house had found new life as an antique shop.

"You could tell me anything is antique, and I would not know the difference," she said.

The big event here is an antique car show on Saturday.

They love the way this antique technology can run wild.

I saw it in an antique shop and spent my whole.

He had come to find out more about the antique dealer.

In its antique origins, the story was about the land.

Between you and me, the antique trade's just about finished.

The furniture all looked to be antique and well used.

King looked at the antique writing desk against one wall.

On the weekend of June 9 and 10, an antique police car show comes to town.

Like many other antique laws, this one had been on the books but not used.

It is in the window of an antique store, on the way to where I live.

In more recent times it has been the home of a local antique shop.

Now could be a good time to buy antique mirrors.

The effect is sort of like winding an antique watch.

She was sitting in an antique chair by her window.

The museum also has a large collection of antique books.

They want to do more than look at their antique.

Antiques are her life, which does not leave much room for anything else.

An antique on the other hand must be at least 100 years old.

Either way, antiques shows will never be the same again.

And that's an antique from the early part of the century.

"I could use someone who knows something about antiques in my family business."

It would have had value as an antique in a few more years.

I think the antiques you can get here are just wild.

She may be an antique, but everything's still in good working shape.

Perhaps an English antiques show is not such a reach.

Antique, but it's easy to make and it should do the job.

A year ago, she made a coffee table to go with her antiques.

If you're interested in antiques, recent or old, research before you buy anything.

Interest in antiques has been on the rise for a couple of years.

Great antiques are almost always known for someone who once owned them.

There will also be three major antiques shows int he area.

And outside people's homes, there seem to be no antiques.

This is possibly the best antiques house in the city.

Antiques and other beautiful "things" were in almost every room.

Then he moved over and took an old blanket from another antique.

In recent years it has been used as an antiques shop.

I picked up the phone and called Bill at the antiques store.

"It is an antique that I have had for years."

But in 10 or 15 years the field of potential antiques will be a lot bigger.

He has a barn full of family and town antiques.

Lonnie's house was full of fancy old furniture his mother had antiqued.

For my husband and me, antiquing was never an activity that sprang to mind, other than in jest.

Or you, the host, find your guests expect you to take them antiquing for 48 hours straight.

And besides, antiquing wouldn't be the same without a bit of haggling to lower the price further.

She said she loves going antiquing with her mother as part of her job.

I promise to always go antiquing with you."

Carole: The house is new construction, but we've been doing a lot of the landscaping, unpacking and antiquing.

To give the effect that the calendar had been lying around someone's attic, she had the paper antiqued on the printing press.

Antiquing paints and varnishes are available at craft stores or can be mixed at home.

Antiquing If you are still in the market for old furniture and collectibles, there are several stores to choose from just outside the inn's door.

If you go antiquing on Sunday and find a tall china cabinet that you simply must have, you can haul it home - upright.

The walls and floors have been stripped and antiqued to a rustic finish befitting their merchandise.

It reminded me of Alexandria, Va., outside Washington, where I used to go antiquing with my father.

On her frequent business trips to Europe and Japan, Weiser began antiquing in every city she visited.

Mr. Latimer had seen the house listed in a local newspaper while out antiquing with a friend, who owns a house nearby.

Paula Poleschner antiqued the wood.

Mrs. Burelbach, who has been antiquing for more than a half century, couldn't help noticing, "Some of these people are awfully competitive."

In the North Valley, the biggest grape-growing area, the century-old town of Amity is a popular stop for sipping, snacking and antiquing.

STYLES Old Homes as Gatehouses Owners of vintage houses sometimes develop interests ranging from antiquing to local history.

Antiquing luddites can take heart from Mr. Griffith of Ebay, a former owner of an antiques shop himself, whose partner is about to open another shop in Rutland, Vt.

An avid collector who went antiquing with her parents as a child, she had long dreamed of opening a shop of her own, a place where she could sell some of the many items she had collected throughout her adulthood.

Lidie has so much talking to do over 450 pages that her diction and syntax occasionally lapse into modernity, the way a tired actor will lose an accent, but over all Smiley does a good job antiquing the prose that carries her story.