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What is the difference between "vintage" and "antique"?

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What is the difference between “vintage” and “antique”?

Antiques (Latin antiquus, old) are objects which have reached an age which makes them a witness of a previous era in human society.

Antiques are usually objects which show some degree of craftsmanship, or a certain attention to design such as a desk or the early automobile. In a consumer society, an antique is above all an object whose atypical construction and age give it a market value superior to similar objects of recent manufacture. Any historical museum makes a considerable use of antiques in order to illustrate historical events and give them a practical context.

Just about any object can become an antique if it survives long enough, but snob appeal or social acceptance only can ensure that it is actually worth something in the market place.

The term “antique” is used as an insult in some instances, usually to depreciate the usefulness of an object or a procedure. Those who reject the trappings of a consumer society reject the markets which inflate the monetary value of antique objects, regardless of their usefulness or aesthetic qualities.

Antiques are bought at antique stores, or passed down as an estate. Some valuable antiques can be bought from antique dealers and auction services or purchased online through websites and online auctions.

Vintage
The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

The harvesting of a grape crop.
The initial stages of winemaking.
Informal
A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
Length of existence; age.
ADJECTIVE:

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10 Responses to “What is the difference between "vintage" and "antique"?”

  1. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    About 60 years.
  2. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    Vintage is the period of time when something appeared or begun while antique is a collectable decorative or household object, often a piece of furniture, which is valued because of its age.
  3. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    vintage is something that is very very old, like from who know when and you still have it. antique is something that is very special to you.
  4. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    Antique is something that is at least 100 years old. Then there are collectables. Something vintage is something old, of an indeterminate age.
  5. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    They're both things from back in the day, but vintage is something that's cool again.
  6. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    Vintage refers to old style, old model, specially an item that it is still manufactured or used nowadays but has evolved in the last decades, probably during the last 100 years or so. Thus a Commodore is a "vintage" computer; a garment from the 1970's is "vintage" clothing. A vintage car is one made between 1905 and 1930.
    On the other hand an antique is something belonging to former times, no longer extant, probably something a century old or even from ancient times (Greece or Rome).
  7. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    about $100
  8. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    vintage now refers to something from the 1900's or above for like clothing. antique refers to objects like books, records, and other furnture items. etc.
  9. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    vintage is usually something from the last couple of decades. antique is usually from the last couple of centuries
  10. admin on September 3rd, 2009 12:21 am
    A VINTAGE is a PERIOD of manufacturing. (1845 Steinway Vintage)

    An antique, by custom law, is any item older than 100 years old. (2000 years old, Qing Dynasty Platter)

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