We Have Your Collectibles: Home Of Fair Oaks Antiques

Helping buyers, collectors, and, yes, antique dealers, vintage sellers, and resellers, with industry facts. In the strictest sense, age is the difference between antique, vintage, and retro items...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2024/07/05/whats-the-difference-between-antique-vintage-retro/

All set up for Totally Rad Vintage Fest – Fargo ! The whole fest looks amazing! We are in booth #45 – come see us tomorrow

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2024/04/14/we-have-your-collectibles-totally-rad-vintage-fest-fargo/

It’s not often you find oil paintings with such a well-defined and readable signature, but the one on this triptych we have in our booth at Fargo Antiques and Repurposed Market is clearly LETTE...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2023/01/09/letterman-mid-century-modern-paintings/

Back in the day, in ye olde candy shoppe, when you went to buy chocolates, you would see little shapes like these sitting in front of little candy boxes. Made from the same molds as the candies t...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2022/05/02/to-eat-a-chocolate-dirigible/

It’s time for the annual June flea market at Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market! That means, along with all the dealers, we will be having sales inside. Our YES booths,#25-27, will be 20% off. ...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2021/06/16/sales-music-at-the-fargo-flea-market/

Part of my job as an antiques dealer (or vintage seller, if you prefer) is to properly clean, research, and identify reclaimed and discovered items in order to best present these old things to po...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2021/06/10/falling-in-mush-love/

(If you prefer, you can listen to this as a podcast! Smells Like Grandma, episode 1 – 5.) A few weeks ago I spent the weekend washing out old perfume bottles. Well, technically, washing vintage...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2020/11/06/this-weeks-story-smells-like-grandma-spirit/

Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques, here with This Week’s Story, and I am a paint by number collector. (If you’d prefer, you can listen to the podcast here.) Many mock paint by nu...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2020/10/29/this-weeks-story-paint-by-numbers-wundertute/

This time of year, we must remind you: Nothing haunts us like the junk we didn’t buy. * But it’s true all year ’round! https://youtu.be/FbEadqywFeA

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2020/10/24/this-time-of-year/

This Week’s Story is prompted by a vintage piece of lingerie. You can listen to the audio podcast here. This particular lingerie piece, in a powder blue satin, is more slinky sleepshirt than na...

http://www.wehaveyourcollectibles.com/2020/10/21/this-weeks-story-it-was-the-80s-even-lingerie-had-shoulder-pads/