Yes, we’ll get to the Relics and Artifacts in a minute. I just wanted you to take a peek at the video above, to get yourself prepared for what’s going to happen in the realm of antiques and such.

We used to call them “junk stores” — overcrowded, dry and dusty with undisturbed age, the objects lanquished in the darkness, waiting for a new owner and new life.

Sometime around 1950, those same junk shops switched signs, and became “antique shoppes”, with fewer items, better arrangement, and much higher prices.

There were, in the 1960s and 1970s, a smattering of shops that sold things older than antiques — those items that are 2,000 years old or older are now called “antiquities”, to distinguish them from “antiques”, things that are 100 years old or more.

Stuff that’s around 1,000 years old are downright Medieval, and are collected as such. Medieval things are generally at about neolithic or at most, bronze-age in nature. Continue reading →