The market for that 19th-century desk you inherited is about as lively as the guy who made it. Simply put, the market for most antique furniture is moribund and won’t rebound anytime soon, antique ...

A s any dedicated vintage shopper knows, finding the best treasures is one part luck, one part strategy. Having a ...

What a bargain! Often an authentic antique sells for less than a modern copy. Since the price of antique wooden (“brown”) furniture has dropped in the last few years, the good news is that there are ...

Local antique shops agree that what a piece was worth 10 years ago is not what it's worth today. Antique prices in the U.S. started falling in the early 2000s, a victim of changing tastes, older ...

When Stacy Becker decorated her new homes in Houston and in Aspen, Colo., four years ago, she got rid of most of the 18th and 19th century antiques she had collected since the 1980s. Becker, whose ...

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — At the annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Antique Show & Sale in Hempfield over the weekend, items ran the gamut from antique jewelry to vintage toys, from ...

Reality TV shows such as the Antiques Roadshow and Cash in the Attic have led to a reaction against period furniture and paradoxically fuelled the fashion for modernist pieces, say antiques dealers.

The latest statistics show a continuing decline in prices for antique furniture, reinforcing the recent move by Bonhams Australia to drop “brown furniture" from its biannual art and antique auctions ...

Interest in antiques is worldwide. Sometimes the prices at a local auction are dictated by such things as the value of the dollar, the latest fad in Tokyo or the type of wood that looked best. The ...