Pick & Grin, The Collecting Couple, Ready For The New Year Grin: With the holiday season ending, I look forward to peace and quiet for the next few months. Pick: Good luck with that thought. We have two antique shows booked and we need to start setting aside the goods we want to sell. One [...]

Pick: Did you ever notice that everyone is happy and smiling putting up the tree before the Christmas holiday, humming Christmas carols the whole time, but taking it down is another matter? Grin: Whatever do you mean dear? Pick: Well, here I stand on a ladder taking down the ornaments, while you yell out the [...]

Pick: I suppose it is time. Time to take down the tree, put all the ornaments in their boxes, until next year. We are the only ones in our ‘group’ who have a live tree. When the kids were small, we’d work on putting it up for a few days. You’d do the lights, the [...]

Pick & Grin from Antiquips brings you bizarre finds. Part of the joy in collecting or selling antiques and collectibles is the people you meet. Sharing the stories of the hunt, the success in finding a super item at a great price or selling one for a king’s ransom. Mistakes are forgotten, and the next [...]

Grin: I decided to clean out some desk drawers and filing cabinets. Trash collection is tomorrow and I can’t seem to close some of my drawers anymore. Pick: You never could keep your drawers closed. Grin: I resemble that remark, and blame you for my condition. But to the point, I have trashed some stuff [...]

ANTIQUIPS GETS A REPLY TO OUR BLOG Our last article mentioned our frustration trying to find good antique shops while on the Carolinas’ coastal area. We drove down to Charleston, SC from North Carolina for sightseeing with our traveling companions with no time left that day for antique shopping. Our first break came in finding [...]

Pick & Grin On Vacation While it’s great to be back, vacations are a time to relax and enjoy some good times with good friends and see new sights. Our recent trip to North Carolina, included a visit into Charleston, South Carolina and a grand tour of many of the city’s historic sites, with the [...]

Hello again, Grin here, Pick is out shopping in one of those bedroom communities where the old stores that once housed the local butcher, baker and bookie, now are home to the crafts crowd, crepes kitchen and bobbles and bangles boutique.  So I’m left to ponder what’s new in our antique world. Wait, is “new [...]

Pick: That was such a fun auction we went to the other night! Lots of variety, friendly crowd, and it moved along quickly too. My favorite thing was the treasure we got, almost a piece of your family heritage! Grin: I started my inspection of the items going up for auction at the far end [...]

Another Blog from Anti-quips – the Collecting Couple Pick: Have you ever looked back and said “boy, I wish I had bought that!” Grin: You’d run out of ink in the cartridge before I could print out that list. P: Oh, really, that many? Give me an example. G: How about that hotel ice bucket [...]

Pick-Let’s talk some more about the antique recycling in our home. Grin-Does that mean you are finally going to clean out your clothes closet? P-No, silly. I mean our “decorating recycling”, things we have saved from a dumpster or land fill by fixing it up and putting it to a good use. How about discussing [...]

Antiquips Pickin & Grinin Pick: This is going to be our first article for Inherited Values so let’s show off some of our unusual collectibles. Grin: How about your hand mirrors? You are always bragging to anyone that will listen, just how great you think they are and how well you display them. Pick: Oh, [...]