Review of Antiques Emporium ~ Cameron Village

2060 Clark Ave. (Upper Level)
Raleigh, NC 27605
919-834-7250

by
H. Kent Craig




Antiques Emporium is a smallish, quaint, intimate little antiques shop in the heart of Raleigh's Cameron Village Shopping Center (which is an antique in its own way, being the first shopping center built between DC and Atlanta back in the 40's) which is worth the one minute stairclimb or elevator ride from the shared parking lot-level vestibule entrance with Carolina Antique Mall below and the fifteen to twenty minutes it should take you to scan their modest but well-represented inventory.


The proprietors are polite, knowledgeable, and friendly folks. Prices range from dead-on market prices to low double-digit overages, mostly on higher-end items that they know people will be subject to bargain with them on. They accept bargaining for what it is, part of the tradition of antiquing, not as affronts to their knowledge or attempts to make a decent profit and stay in business. You won't catch any flack from them for making an honest counter-offer. They may or may not play the game with you as much as you'd like, but they'll be polite about it.


The ratio of true antiques to Post WWII-collectibles is about 90%/10%, with usually no brand-new items or actual junk to be found. In my many trips there, I've yet to run across a single forgery or fake, so that won't be a problem. And they don't sell reproductions, only the genuine articles.


While you're there, do yourself a favor and visit the much larger Carolina Antiques Mall which is in the basement area below them. Click on this Yahoo!Maps button to bring up a location map for both of them, thank you!


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