A customer writes:
"For anyone who recalls such childhood thrills as losing a lazy afternoon in the back of an older relative's closet or drawers, emerging from shoe boxes and stale fabric aglow with story-lines inevitably connected to every loose thread and scrap of paper that escaped disposal, or over-stuffing pockets and bags with stones or shells on a beach, perfectly shaped pebbles or pinecones on a hike, and the like, only to let an equal amount of time pass arranging and sorting the findings, will not be able to resist this shop. Ephemera and jewelry are individually packaged and placed into boxes or organizers alongside silverware tied with string and classic novels, housewares, clothing, furniture, and artwork, postcards, buttons, clasps, zippers, appliances, lace, sculpture, hats, photographs, cookbooks, all stacked with purpose and intent, colors juxtaposed just-so, shapes echoing and offsetting each other to make absorbing the entire store nearly impossible. Each individual shelf, corner, fraction of a wall must be taken on its own, almost as artwork itself... Thoreauly Antiques is so composed, so humble, so endearing, it makes anything that may qualify as junk instantly precious. Antiquing has never been so easy on the eyes."
Thoreauly Antiques Ltd
Joyce Ricker
Jim Ricker
25 Walden Street
Concord, MA
01742
978-371-0100
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