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Summary: Learn all about holiday antique collecting and appraisal in this free antiques video series from an antiques expert.
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About the Expert
Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
So, talking about collecting holiday antiques, or collectibles, you, it spans the range from anything from Christmas, Easter, you have Thanksgiving, you have collectibles that are Halloween, and then you also have celebrations like George Washington's birthday, you"ll see collectibles for that. There's a number of different holidays that you can collect and a number of different political holidays that you'll find that there are collectibles for. So, I have a little variety for you to see here today and some examples of what is out there to collect, and this is just a very small sampling but this is what some of the holiday collectibles for the turn of the century up to the 1950's I show you here. So, you'll see George Washington's party favors, you'll see Santa in the forms of candy containers and this one in particular is Russian. Then you'll see lanterns in the forms of different kinds of heads. This type of paper mache for decoration. You'll see big Easter eggs for Easter holidays with candy containers also. So there's a wide range of things you can collect for a holiday season.