It’s spring break for my kids and today I am on the first day of our vacation in Atlanta! By way of explaining that this will be a somewhat lame blog post cause my kids are chomping at the bit to get out of the hotel and see the World of Coke and the Puppet Museum.

And of course I will drag the poor little ones to a few antiques shops because that’s my thing. I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve got for sale. One thing I saw when I sold antiques and collectibles is that there was a noticeable difference in what was popular between different regions. On a dealers’ forum I belonged to, we would regularly post what was selling like hotcakes at our locations, and it was amazing to see the differences. While cobalt blue glass might be flying off the shelves in one spot, in another it was old swim lockers (which I remember because I wasn’t even sure what they were). While some trends were tied to what was hot in home decorating at the moment and popular everywhere, others were specific to the midwest or the south.

A friend from New England went antiquing while on a trip to Arizona and was surprised to find that the wares in the shops was much different from what she regularly saw back at home. Different histories, different people settling in the region and passing down their belongings, it all adds up to different objects eventually making their way onto the shelves of the antiques shops and malls. So I’m looking forward to browsing around the shops here in Atlanta, and I’m hoping for some surprises.

I’d love to hear from anyone else who has noticed this!

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