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Antiques, Fine Crafts, and Gifts nautical antiques to rare
books, maps, jewelry, and
Visitors hoping to take home a special memento will find an rugs. Fine antiques and jewelry
enormous number of antique, craft, and gift stores in Boston. featuring Victorian and Art
From the huge antique markets and cooperatives, to specialty Nouveau designs are
shops selling everything from rugs to rare books, there are beautifully dis played
and described by the
abundant opportunities to indulge a passion for the past. Those knowledgeable staff at
favoring more contemporary objets d’art will find crafts guilds, Small Pleasures. Vintage
galleries, and gift shops selling unique glassware, ceramics, watches from Rolex, Cartier,
textiles, jewelry, and much more produced by New England Vacheron, Constantia, and
artisans, as well as items from every corner of the world. others are a specialty at
Paul A. Duggan Co.; while
The Bromfield Pen Shop
Antiques Antiques excels at Art Deco has been a purveyor of
Charles Street is Boston’s furniture, much of it purchased thou sands of new, antique,
antiques Mecca, with more in France. and limited­edition pens for
antique stores than any other over 50 years. For nautical
part of town. The neighbor­ antiques, including model
hood is extremely affluent Antique Markets ships and marine paintings,
and Cooperatives
with many exclusive and Lannan Ship Model Gallery
expensive stores, though the If browsing through boasts an extensive and high
occasional bargain may be mountainous inventories quality inventory. Antique
found in some of the larger with the broadest range of Asian furniture, as well as
stores. Upstairs Downstairs quality, price, and stock is antique and modern hand­
sells “affordable antiques,” and your idea of heaven, then woven rugs and carpets from
has four rooms full of furniture, there are several multi­dealer the Asian steppes to northern
lamps, prints, and a large antiques emporiums worth India and Nepal, are among
selection of smaller items. exploring. On Charles Street, the specialties of Mohr &
A prime source of antique Boston Arts & Antiques has McPherson, which maintains
pine and painted furniture, everything from quilts, a large showroom in Back Bay.
Danish Country carries candlesticks, and wicker Bibliophiles will also find an
antique armoires and other furniture to chandeliers and extraordinary range of stores in
furniture from Scandinavia, furniture. Open Sundays, Boston. In business since 1825,
as well as Royal Copenhagen SOWA Vintage Market Brattle Book Shop (see p85) is
china and tall case clocks. The features nearly three dozen the oldest and best known,
shop also carries Chinese dealers in an old brick with a huge selection of used,
lacquered antique furniture warehouse. Set decorators out­of­print and rare books,
that blends well with the love to scout here for film magazines, and vintage
Scandinavian pieces. shoots. The adjoining flea photo graphs. Rare books in
Antique jewelry from market and farmers’ market the fine arts are the focus of
around the world is a specialty add to the fun. In Cambridge, Ars Libri Ltd., while Eugene
at Marika’s Antiques Shop, Cambridge Antique Market Galleries features antiquarian
along with paintings, glass, encompasses more than maps, prints, and etchings, in
porcelain, and silver. True to 100 dealers, offering estate addition to its comprehensive
its name, Devonia Antiques antiques, collectibles, furniture, selection of books. Fans of
for the Table has fine china, jewelry, and a vast selection graphic novels, comic books,
glassware, and even antique of many other items. Japanese and Korean manga,
linens for creating the period If you have scoured and all sorts of visual story­
dining atmosphere. Twentieth Charles Street, scrutinized telling flock to Million Year
Century Ltd. excels particularly the cooperatives and still Picnic to get their fix of
in glittery costume jewelry not found what you are current titles. A few toys
from top designers. They also looking for, try Skinner Inc. in and T­shirts round out the
offer pieces in sterling silver. Boston, which holds auctions collection, but comics are
In Cambridge, Reside throughout the year featuring the main draw. Also in
specializes in mid­20th­century furniture and fine arts, as well Cambridge, Schoenhof’s
modern furniture and acces­ as ethnic art and books. Foreign Books and Grolier
sories, with ethnic pillows and Poetry Book Shop cater
weavings. For an eclectic mix to those seeking specialty
of antiques both fine and Specialty Dealers volumes. The Bryn Mawr
funky from the 19th century Collectors in pursuit of Bookstore stocks used
to the 1950s, head to Easy more specific pieces books and some rare volumes
Chairs. In neighboring Brook­ will find shops in Boston that cover ing every conceivable
line, A Room with a Vieux specialize in everything from subject.

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