Two Great Opportunities to Buy Antique Tiles!!

January seems to be rushing in with snows and cold but also with two opportunities to buy great tiles!
Antique Articles will be displaying many of their wide variety of stunning tiles at two great antique sale markets.




This upcoming weekend, January 15-16,  at the Boston Antique & Design Show and Sale.  This high quality, wide interest sale is held at the Shriner's auditorium in Wilmington, MA.  Conveniently located just off I-93 this venue offers easy access and plenty of free parking.  The Show and Sale is a favorite of many as the quality, variety and affordability is outstanding. 

Minton 6" William Wise tile.

"This a great venue for seeing tiles!" said one customer.  "I can easily select my favorites from the huge display and there is room to lay out design options."

" I like that I can view the tiles among other decorating objects so I can easily imagine how they will look in my home. Oh, and the food is good too!" said another.

A great variety of tiles (and Christmas,too)
at the October Design Show

The next opportunity to buy great tiles is at the Americana & Antiques @ the Pier January 22-23.  This classic sale is at Pier 92  in NYC.  One of the Stella Shows, Americana at the Pier combines premier specialist dealers with trendy designer booths.  A fabulously visual and exciting show to visit.  Antique Articles will have fresh to market outstanding examples of tiles at all price points. 

"I love your booth," said a long time client,"You always have the best and your customers are interesting, fun and even famous!"

Please try to come to see us at either sale.  We promise to show you  a fabulous selection of tiles and wish you a happy New Year as we begin 2011.

6" Majolica tile

Antique Tile Sale!! Just in time for the Holidays!!

Antique tiles?  Aren't they expensive?

One of the many 'false" comments we hear.  We all must define our own "expensive" and how we'll choose to spend money.  But, regardless of  how we do so we all love a sale and here it is the Annual Antique Article Tile Sale! 

 



Sandie has slashed prices on all regularly prices tiles by 15% and will take an additional 10% off all already sale priced items.  Also-Free shipping on any purchase of 5 tiles or more!! 

Even Scrooge would be hard pressed to bah humbug these deals!  

Just visit the website http://www.antiquearticles.com/  choose your tiles and e-mail Sandie mentioning this blog.  Sandie will provide the discount and have your tiles shipped before you can even say Rudolf .  

Tiles truly make thoughtful and unique gifts.  Small in size yet with

HUGE design impact.  You can find something for practically

everyone on your gift list especially someone who enjoys the unusual.

So please look and enjoy.   Find a few favorites and take advantage of the sale!

See if you agree with one customer who wrote, "Wow, I just found the prettiest tile on your website and no one will believe that it was only $35.00!"

Happy Holiday Season!!

Tired tile sellers enjoyed the November Stella Pier Show in NYC!

Very weary and bleary eyed we have returned from the Pier show.  It was a truly spectacular fall weekend. The weather was sunny and  60's and the booth displays and the crowds? WOW!   

The November Pier Show, always a place to see and be seen, once again didn't disappoint.  Everyone was there.  Babies in strollers, adults with walkers and canes, sizes 000 to +++,  6 foot beauties and toddling munchkins and every possible personal style and/or fashion taste....pink tights,  a boa, 40's house dress, army fatigues, brocade, tulle, spangles, sparkles, beads......and all that just on one customer!  Merchandise  brought from all over the country and the world, and of course, our antique tiles.



Antique Articles tile booth November Pier 2010.



At 9:59 am our tile booth was chocked full of panels, sets, transfer printed, Art Nouveau, souvenir and majolica tiles.  The cases were crammed with hand painted Minton Art Pottery Studio tiles, rare scenic series tiles, 8" polychrome tiles, German Art Nouveau majolica tiles, Low Aesthetic movement tiles, dogs, cows, birds, a donkey, two flamingos and a partridge in a pear tree tiles...oops, not really the pear tree.



Customers select tiles at Pier Show.

 Wrapping paper, bags, pens, receipt books and calculators and we were ready for our customers, and our wonderful customers didn't disappoint.  Within 15 minutes, the time it takes to negotiate the line and walk the aisle down to the booth we were slammed.  At  3:15  we grabbed a customer/friend to help "mind the booth" and alternated  hasty but desperately needed breaks.

It was a joy to meet new customers, see returning friends, and catch up on all that had happened since the March Pier.  Thanks to you all we had a fun, exhausting, yet profitable weekend!

Off to the BIG APPLE with "NEW" tiles!!!

Malkin Edge  Cinderella tile 6" 

Whew, we been very busy since our last trip to sell tiles in the city.  Sandie has purchased a huge collection of fabulous tiles.  Buying a collection is fun and lets us share carefully preselected tiles.  A tile collector usually has tiles that are interesting, unusual, and in great condition.  In the case of this collector, the tiles he sold us had been purchased and stored away 30 years ago!   So in addition to all of the above we bought tiles that we haven't seen on the market  forever!

These "new" tiles have been cleaned, catalogued and are packed and ready for all to buy at:   Stella Show Management The Pier Antique Show.  November 13 &14.



The Pier Show    March 2010



Polychrome R. Caldecott designer

Some of the fabulous tiles we have to sell include seldom seen series picture tiles such as:

• Little Red Riding Hood
• Wedgwood hat series
• Moyr Smith designs
• Minton-Hollins Country scenes
• Wedgwood Ivanhoe
• Wedgwood religious series
• Copeland children's tiles     

We also have some spectacular Aesthetic tiles, Majolica , Art Nouveau and some great American tiles including J&JG Low, Hartford Faience, Mosaic, and American Encasutic.

Mosaic 4"

As always we're really excited to be coming back to the city to see friends and clients, eat at favorite restaurants, and check out collecting trends.  Hope you can join us for a wonderful weekend!

Watch this blog for future updates about sales, shows, exciting "new" purchases and of course all things tile!

Wendy & Sandie

http://www.antiquearticles.com/