Strange Brew by John Deering for September 26, 2021

Brand-new antiques: “This shop is dedicated to everyone whose moms threw out their comic book collections or baseball cards.”

This would have worked better if the line had been spoken by a human rather than a building.

At any rate, this seems to be set in the late 1800’s, and people had in some sense been collecting antiques for hundreds of years by then, beginning with ancient Greek art, expanding to ancient Egyptian art with Napoleon’s adventures in Egypt, and by the late 1800’s including all manner of mostly plundered grave goods from around the world.

None of it will become less antique in the interim.

…….a LONG time.

This is an old one.

Those signs will be valuable someday. :)

I just noticed that the logo this week has a grandfather clock soaking in the brew. Nice touch.

Might be hard to go 100 years without selling anything and still pay the rent…

There’s always a booming market for antique dealers. Just go circle any house where an old person just died or is moving into a nursing home. We, humans, hold onto way too much junk errr…antiques.

Very clever.

In my youth the notion that everyday items would someday become sought-after collectables hadn’t yet became evident yet. So all my old 45s and my psychedelic black light posters got tossed. Now, just about mid-century anything is quite valuable.