AKICIF: Antique stores
Apr. 20th, 2007 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Does anyone know of any real antique shops in the Twin Cities. Not the boutique antique stores, but the ones of my youth that are part flea market and part invaluable 18th century silver service. What I want are little skeleton keys, like those that fit lap boxes from the turn of the century. They exist out there, and I'd be utterly happy to play with dozens of them to get the lap box open, but at a boutique antique shop they'd be considered so quaint and cost $5 each. Besides, grubbing around in a real antique shop is endless fun. Or do they not exist anymore? Ebay might well have pushed them out of business. Ebay, the world's biggest flea market -- with a search engine. What more could you ask?
Does anyone know of any real antique shops in the Twin Cities. Not the boutique antique stores, but the ones of my youth that are part flea market and part invaluable 18th century silver service. What I want are little skeleton keys, like those that fit lap boxes from the turn of the century. They exist out there, and I'd be utterly happy to play with dozens of them to get the lap box open, but at a boutique antique shop they'd be considered so quaint and cost $5 each. Besides, grubbing around in a real antique shop is endless fun. Or do they not exist anymore? Ebay might well have pushed them out of business. Ebay, the world's biggest flea market -- with a search engine. What more could you ask?
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Date: 2007-04-20 05:55 am (UTC)