Antiques

     The first time I looked up the word antique in the dictionary the first definition that was given for antiques is “An antique is something from roman times” which was in 15^th or 16^th century which delete just about everything on the internet that is being called an antique. Today’s dictionaries definition an antique as “An antique is usually an item that is collected because of its age, beauty, rarity...” with the focus being on age of the item. However, there is no definite time applied to antique's age just from the past. A lot of antique dealers, action house, ect. say that an antique must be 100 years old or older.Ttherefore most everything being sold on the internet is not an antique. The 100 years came about in 1988 a law was passed which states “Antiques are exempt from import duties. To qualify, antiques must be at least 100 years old and have documentation included that confirms the age. Imported antiques found to not be at least 100 years old can be subject to an import duty.” This law was set up for custom agents to determine if an item is an antique or not to charge import fees and/or taxes. It does not mean everything must be 100 years old to be antique. Some items being sold as antique are only 20 years old or less. The point is an antique is determined by age and every seller of antiques has a time frame for their antiques. Here at Great Deals Webstore we use this time frame for antiques, collectibles, or just old as shown below.

The products you will find in Great Deals Webstore;s are true antiques or collectibles which has come from yard sale, antique action, estate sale, and family. I have searched each item to positively identify the item, and provide a little history, which is in the item’s description. Antiques are 50 years old or older, collectibles are from 20 to 49 years old. Age is determined by research that was done on the item. The items in which no information could be found will be stated in the description of those items. For those items which no information could be found, age is determined by physical appearance, experience, where I bought, and what year the item was obtain, I am not perfect I make mistake sometimes.  The majority of these item was obtained in the early 80s and packed away in storage for the last 40+ years.