What constitutes an antique?
Many people have loosely applied the term “Antique”. The standard definition requires an age of at least 100 years. True antique collectors consider pre-1860’s furniture as antiques. This is due to the advent of the machine age whereby furniture was beginning to be mass-produced starting about 1860. This is not to say that pieces of furniture were not being hand or “bench-made” after this time and that many fine pieces of furniture were produced after 1860.
