How to Collect Art Deco Antiques

Video Transcript

"Look at these cute little doggies. Precious huh? What strikes you about them? For me, what strikes me, is this geometric look, that they have. The geometric look is kind of from that are deco period, in the twenties and thirties, and these geometrics, are stamped "Japan," I call them geometrics, a new name for them. Anyway, but they are cute little doggies and often they came, with their little puppies, cute huh? These are little geometrics, that I made up the name, I should copy write it, but these are arts deco "made in Japan" items, where the US no longer referred to Japan, as Nippon and here's another little doggy. How precious is that? These are examples of that art deco, start of look, where they had all the geometrics, the circles and the hard lines and that's the way these doggies came out and they're very cute. They either say "Japan" or "Nippon." How you can tell, is on the bottom, you could see where it says "Japan" or it's also ok if it says "made in Japan," either one of those would date that from the twenties or thirties. These dogs often came with little chains attached and so the little doggies were all together, with mom, like three doggies. My guess is, this particular doggy, had more puppies, sad huh? There's only one puppy here, which means there's probably two puppies. However, if this puppy set was complete, it would probably be worth, now a day, about thirty-five dollars at an antique store, if you had all three but since I only have a pair of puppies, we're looking at maybe ten or fifteen dollars, for the pair. However these do appreciate and you're finding less and less of these in the common places. This is also a geometric and isn't her precious? He's another one, I don't think he came with puppies, so he's probably the complete package right there and he's probably worth about ten dollars, on his own. See, so more is not better when you're talking about geometric puppies."