antiques

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“I don’t think she meant to do it, but she did,” said Annette Davis Bradley, owner of Downtown Envy, an antiques store a short walk from the Colleton County Courthouse where Hill presided.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

In a trip in November 2013 to Vincenzo Caffarella, a decorative arts and antiques shop in London, £170,000 was allegedly spent on a "vast amount of property" including Venetian lamps and vases.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

He switched to selling antiques and collectibles, renting space in antique malls, and got back into used books from there.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The owner of the small antiques shop will talk to you for hours about every small business that has come and gone on his block.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

“The antiques they carried out a while ago must have been worth a million all by themselves.”

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang