Any furnishing or other object that is 100 years old or older, but loosely applied to all old furniture Technically, it should be confined to periods ending with Sheraton's style in Europe and with Duncan Phyfe's in America
By federal definition, a firearm manufactured prior to 1899 or a firearm for which ammunition is not generally available or a firearm incapable of firing fixed ammunition
Could be anything ranging from furniture or lighting to a piece of art The US government considers any item over 100 years old to be an antique, whereas most collectors use 50 years as a general benchmark
Items that are believed to be 100 years or more old Determination of age is to the best of our ability given reasonable but often subjective opinion Our opinion may incorporate the opinions of others, provenance documented by others, or the opinions of recognized reference resources, over which we have no control as to accuracy The use of the term in itself does not guarantee that an item is in fact 100 or more years old, but instead indicates that it is our belief that the item is approximately of that age
Could be anything ranging from a piece of furniture to art The US government considers any item over 100 years old to be an antique, whereas most collectors use 50 years as a benchmark
Traditionally an antique meant an item produces before 1840 and made by hand Customs officials in most countires have deamed items over 100 years old to be antique and therefore duty free It has recently come to mean any item of special value or of historical significance To purists however the 100 year rule is still used
A product that is sold or exchanged because of value derived, or because of oldness as respects the present age and not simply because same is not a new product
depending on what industry you are talking about, it could mean something that's 50 years old (as in the furniture industry) or 5 years old (as in the computer industry)
Although opinions may vary, most experts feel that all dolls made prior to the 1930s are considered to be antique The exception to this ruleuse to be the "composition dolls," but this is slowly changing and many collectors now accept pre-1930 compositions as antique as well
An antique is an old object such as a piece of china or furniture which is valuable because of its beauty or rarity. a genuine antique. antique silver jewellery. antique furniture, jewellery etc is old and often valuable (antiquus, from ante )
In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases
any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"