Brass Armadillo Blogs

 Want to have vintage home decor on a budget? Buying new retro-style decorations for your home is expensive. What if you could achieve amazing results and spend only a fraction? Shopping in an antique mall has become a popular [...]

“It’s not a museum. It’s not a place of artifacts; it’s a place of ideas– Jeanie Kahnke”. For centuries, art collectors and historians have worked to preserve sculptures of bygone eras – guardians of history that connect us with the past. [...]

In their advertising for CRN Auctions, Carl Nordblom and Karin Philips described the sale, which included early American furniture, European paintings, Chinese scholar stones, art, and pottery, as eclectic. According to Antiques and The Art Weekly, the top-selling antique was [...]

Antiques are officially the world’s 749th most traded product in a given year, with a total trade worth of around $1.72 billion. In the new millennium, the buzzword is sustainability, and antiques fit right in with the penchant for reusing, recycling, and [...]

Cleaning out my grandma’s home was a chore I didn’t look forward to helping with.  Skipping past the items of sentimental nature, I want to describe the most interesting finds. Grandma’s home was a modest one-level home in a pleasant [...]

The Brass Armadillo Antique Mall is a great place to find unique and interesting items. We are also a great place to find bargains. If you are looking for something special, we are the best place to start your search. [...]

Preserving The History Of Older Homes: A Brief Overview 82% of Millennials said they’re more likely to buy a fixer-upper than a newly built home, according to Bank of America Research’s sixth annual home improvement survey, which polled over 1,100 [...]

Safe Storage Vital for Preserving Precious Antiques In 1985, two school teachers, Jerry and Rita Alter, walked into the Arizona University Museum of Art in broad daylight and stole a 1955 painting by Willem de Kooning entitled Woman-Ochre.  The painting’s essentially [...]

While collecting antique works of art is often associated with older generations, more young people are wondering how to start collecting art and are beginning to invest in art today, with millennials making up nearly half (49%) of collectors around [...]

Collecting and investing in antiques used to be seen as a niche hobby, something that is mostly done by those who are rich enough to afford truly expensive pieces or those who are eccentric enough to collect odd knick-knacks. However, [...]

Recent search trends suggest that the future of home decor is rooted in the past. According to Homes & Gardens, the interest in antique stores rose to 50%, while auctions for antiques increased by 80% in 2021. With the demand for [...]

We want you to meet Sonja.  She became separated from her 1993 letter jacket many years ago.  While attending her 25th class reunion for Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, her friend told her she saw her old letterman [...]

Keeping things nice and clean is an important part of good home maintenance. Whether you’re an enthusiastic antique collector who's just picked up a piece from one of our Brass Armadillo Antique Mall locations or you’ve recently received an inherited [...]

Stoneware pottery has been used by many cultures over many centuries. Some cultures make no real distinction between stoneware and porcelain. We focus on antique American stoneware pottery, utilitarian ware that has often suffered the ravages of time. Condition is [...]

Antique brass should be polished and made shiny. Bronze should not! First, you need to know how to distinguish between those 2 metals before polishing brass antiques. Brass tarnishes easily and is high maintenance, but the effort you put [...]