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antique collecting

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
antique collecting the assembling of items of aesthetic, historical, and often monetary value from earlier eras. The term antique initially referred only to the preclassical and classical cultures of the ancient world. It is now applied to old artifacts of all cultures. Legally and traditionally, an antique is usually defined as an object that is over a hundred years old. History Antique collecting has a venerable history dating from the preservation of valued religious objects in antiquity. By the 16th cent. English and European private collections of rarities flourished. But it was... Read more
antique
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition antique The term has been used collectively to designate classical ... old artifacts generally. The demand and prices paid for antiques have led to the widespread making of reproductions and reconstructions, some with spurious marks of age. See antique collecting . For a description of the ... Read more
forgery
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... fashion, conventions in collecting, and current modes of art ... before the collection of antiques came into vogue (see antique collecting ) or before the cult of ... for a time to give it an antique look, and sold it as an ... numbers of forgeries of antique works have invariably ... Read more

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