Antiques and Collectibles
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* Also see the Grand Rapids History & Special Collections Department's Furniture Design Collection or browse the catalog.
Magazines and Journals at the Library
- Antiques and Collectibles Magazines at the Main Library
- The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.
- Search our catalog for specific titles.
- Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan eLibrary) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database.
Community Resources
Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors West Michigan Antique Bottle Club - Contact Steve DeBoode (616-667-3214 - grbottleguy@comcast.net)
Michigan Antiques Directory An interactive map allows you to search for antiques businesses throughout the state. Provides addresses, phone numbers, hours, and brief descriptions.
Michigan.org Antiques Directory Provides addresses, phone numbers, and brief descriptions.
Web Resources
Antique Marks.com A great site to help identify those antiques and collectibles of yours.
Antiques Roadshow The website for the PBS show, this gives you tour schedules, tips and appraisal advice.
BBC Antiques An easy-to-use homepage that gets you where you want to go, be it buying and selling, expert tips, antiques care, price guides, etc. From a British perspective....
eBay A good place to search to find out what sellers are asking for their items, (and bid on). Site is very easy to use and navigate.
Internet Antiques Guide This site provides news, forums, links to dealers, and a calendar of auctions and antiques fairs.
Kovels.com Another brand name in the antiques business, this website offers news, links and price guide information and their yellow pages.
Price Guides Online Part of the About.com search engine that features human guides, these guides are current and well-chosen.
