Holiday Antiques for Different Holidays

Series Summary

Oh, how we do miss the days of Dickens and Browning, the yesteryears of Whitman and Twain. Those were the good ole days, the century of political upheaval, the age of guilded morality, the epoch of crooked politicians, the end of serfdom, and the rise of capitalism and Nation States. That's right, we all miss the the wonderful, the glorious, the 19th century. But alas, that is a time that has passed, eroded by the inevitable passing of Father Time. The Industrial age has progressed into the post-Industrial Age, and Victorian morality had undergone a transvaluation of values. O bard, sound forth your barbaric yawp over all the world, the 19th century is dead. But never fear, with every death comes new life. The death of the nineteenth century means the birth of great holiday antiques!

In this free video series, watch as professional antique dealer and collector Sue Shea teaches how to collect holiday antiques. See different examples of Easter antiques, Halloween antiques, Christmas antiques, and Americana antiques. Look at Christmas feather trees, feather tree ornaments, bottle brush trees, angel ornaments, snow babies, counter weights, bubble trees, rabbit candy containers, George Washington candy containers, and turkey candy containers. Also learn great resources for Holiday antique collecting and where to buy Holiday antiques.

Video Transcript

"So, talking about collecting holiday antiques, or collectibles, you, it spans the range from anything from Christmas, Easter, you have Thanksgiving, you have collectibles that are Halloween, and then you also have celebrations like George Washington's birthday, you"ll see collectibles for that. There's a number of different holidays that you can collect and a number of different political holidays that you'll find that there are collectibles for. So, I have a little variety for you to see here today and some examples of what is out there to collect, and this is just a very small sampling but this is what some of the holiday collectibles for the turn of the century up to the 1950's I show you here. So, you'll see George Washington's party favors, you'll see Santa in the forms of candy containers and this one in particular is Russian. Then you'll see lanterns in the forms of different kinds of heads. This type of paper mache for decoration. You'll see big Easter eggs for Easter holidays with candy containers also. So there's a wide range of things you can collect for a holiday season."