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Miss Pixie’s
One of the best places to browse in the neighborhood, Miss Pixie’s is piled high with relics from the past, from stuffed leather armchairs to 1960s lawn ornaments. You’ll find dishes, ashtrays, rocking chairs, black-and-white photos and plenty of other curiosities. There’s a cafe upstairs.
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Susan Parrish Antiques
American furniture, textiles, folk art and paintings are offered at this well-respected West Village antiques store. There are early-20th-century Amish quilts and furnishings, as well as 19th-century items in good condition. Navajo and hooked rugs come in dozens of floral and geometric designs.
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Funk House
Antiques in Las Vegas? Yes indeed, and lots of ’em, from retro furnishings and pop art from the 1950s, to advertising and coin-op castoffs from now-imploded casino hotels, some of which might just fit in your suitcase to take back home. It’s a hub of activity on First Friday nights.
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Blue Star Antique Pavilion
Blue Star Hwy sports a slew of antique shops where you can buy old traffic lights, Victorian sleds or $100 china teacups. Start at the whopping, 50,000-sq-ft Blue Star Antique Pavilion, which can absorb buyers and browsers alike for the better part of a day.
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Antique Alley
This cooperative shop is delightfully crammed full of rare collectibles and other cast-off memorabilia from Hawaii through the decades. Vendors sell everything from poi pounders and carved wooden bowls to vintage hula dolls, Matson cruise-liner artifacts and estate jewelry.
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Mauna Kea Galleries
Mauna Kea Galleries has authentic, one-of-a-kind items and artifacts, and prices to match. But browsing is free: check out Duke Kahanamoku's surfboard, original Webber engravings (from Cook's voyage), poi pounders, movie posters, vintage aloha shirts and classic kitsch.
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Good Wood
Even if you’re not in the market for a mid-century armoire, Good Wood is well worth a visit. This warm, atmospheric store has a fine selection of antiques, including handcrafted chairs and tables, elegant lamps and wall hangings, plus other decorative items.
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Retro Vegas
In the 18b Arts District, this flamingo-pink antiques shop is a primo place for picking up mid-20th-century modern, art-deco and swingin’ 1960s and ’70s gems, from jewelry to home decor. Keep a sharp eye out for vintage Vegas souvenirs like casino-hotel ashtrays.
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Jean Williams Antiques
If you’re looking for a Louis XVI chest of drawers or an English mahogany desk, this is the place – Jean Williams specializes in English and French period antiques, and will also search out rare, hard-to-find items if there’s something in particular you’re after.
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Ruxton Trading Post
If you have a hankering for some Old West antique trinket - or maybe a new cowboy hat? Stop into this cluttered charmer. They have wagon wheels, old license plates, belt buckles and very cool vintage snowshoes and branding irons. It's a great find for antiquers!
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Marika’s Antique Shop
More than 50 years ago, a Hungarian immigrant opened this treasure trove in Boston’s antique central. Today, it is run by her grandson, who is extremely knowledgeable about his inventory. And the place still holds an excellent selection of fine collectibles – most notably jewelry, silver and porcelain.
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Architectural Antiques
The old AA is worth a stop just to look at the amazing range of items, from the beautiful (crystal sculptures, classic globes, old-school posters) to the banal (too much to list), which are stacked like popcorn in this incredible warehouse of found stuff.
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Hyde & Seek Antiques
Like the home of a long-lost eccentric aunt, this tiny storefront is full of surprises: a briefcase that opens to reveal a full tartan bar, a Danish-design silver calla lily, a Native basket more tightly wound than your boss – all at reasonable prices.
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Pegge Hopper Gallery
The Pegge Hopper Gallery is one of several good art galleries and antique shops in Chinatown. As its name suggests, the gallery showcases the works of Pegge Hopper, whose prints of voluptuous Hawaiian women adorn many a wall across the islands.
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Boston Antique Company
This old-fashioned antique shop is filled to the brim with furniture, porcelain, jewelry, textiles and paintings, much of it from area estates. Upstairs is the slightly stuffier (though less stuffed) Antiques at 119 Charles.
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Magazine Antique Mall
Hard-core rummagers are likely to score items of interest in the dozen or so stalls here, where independent dealers peddle an intriguing and varied range of antique bric-a-brac. Bargain hunters aren’t likely to have much luck, though.
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Gypsy Caravan Antique Village
One person’s trash truly is another person’s treasure, as the saying goes. Helter-skelter shops inside this shabby-chic collection of houses are filled with affordable treasures, especially for fans of outrageous kitsch and funky fashions.
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Honokaa Trading Company
Afternoons are lost rummaging through the dusty treasures in this secondhand store. Highlights are used books on Hawaii, vintage business signs, a few true antiques and aloha shirts. Opening hours are subject to the owner's hula schedule.
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Elliott Bay Antiques
Since opening in 1995, this shop has been devoted to early 20th-century Chinese furniture, as well as stone carvings, Japanese prints, screens and other furnishings; the owner is particularly interested in the Chinese roots of art deco.
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David’s
Squeezed in among the numerous antique stores and clothing boutiques along lower Decatur is this small rummage shop filled with found objects, collectibles, funky lamps, swanky duds, bar accoutrements, jewelry and other odds and ends.
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Greg’s Antiques
Besides rooms full of salvaged furniture and antiques, Greg’s regularly exhibits works by New Orleans underground and outsider artists, which can also take the form of found and folk art sourced from across the city.
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Alan's Art & Collectibles
Time travel through Hawai'i's past in Alan's Art & Collectibles, a secondhand shop full of coconut ashtrays, bowling trophies, Elvis posters, record albums, aloha shirts and occasional treasures.
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Discovery Antiques
Packed with cases of Hawaiian antiques and curiosities, Discovery Antiques is great for a unique find. Keep the kids distracted with locally made ice cream sold right in the store.
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Yellowfish Trading Company
At this notable Hawaii memorabilia shop, find an irresistible selection of collectibles, eg vintage aloha shirts, handmade jewelry, glossy photo books and antique ceramics.
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Antiques Row
Just south of town, this peerless market has more than 50 antiquaries. You're sure to unearth an incredible find from a Palm Beach estate.
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