Lost My Way, Found Great Vintage! | Deals in Rural Antique Venue

Wrong ways lead to right choices in this video! A detour around one small town antique shop shoots us over to Carterville, Illinois, where we stumble across a recently opened antique mall. Cricket & Red Door is the merger of two prior shops, I've heard about this place and am excited to see it in person!

Once a doctor's office, pharmacy and brothel (really!), this 1910s edifice opens up to reveal a century's worth of fun antiques and valued vintage goods! Southern Illinois has a surprising amount of mid-century decor and home goods, and we spot Treasure Craft, Tupperware, Caro-Nan purses and a Star Wars Millennium Falcon in box before we see our first true antique, a handsome 1890s American oak dresser.

There's a lot of vivid color and graphic interest to displays here, from a 1970 Kodak bikini girl placard to colorful kids toys and Fire-King jadeite. There's some bargains too, including a beautiful French 1920s fragrance bottle (best applied using the kidskin gloves with original $10 tag we got for $3), along with a 1969 Sears catalog that will give an hour's entertainment while we look at what all these things we collect now cost when new. (Spoiler alert: TV's and stereos are a much better deal in 2023!)

Then it's upstairs to their new dealer level, where the brothel has been replaced by a much more genteel group gathered for sale. Glass catches our eye first...Fostoria ruby coin glass, a uranium green 1930s fridge pitcher, 1960s art glass and a Venetian vase that gives us a chance to explain the origin of the term "straw mark". A fine 1910s Hanke vase from Austria, a complete and original Royal child's stove set and an elaborate 1910s screen door offer the style and finery of true antiques, rounding out this very fun antique shopping adventure!

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