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Welcome to the Atlanta Antique Gallery...
 The Atlanta Antique Gallery, voted the “Best Antique
Shop in Atlanta”, offers a multi-faceted venue to buy and sell fine, rare antiques
and vintage collectibles through our store location and on our online website.
Your source for quality and affordable antiques in lighted
showcases and luxurious showrooms, The Gallery is located in the Chamblee Antique
Row District, which is a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta. The District includes Broad
Street, Peachtree Road and Peachtree Industrial Blvd in Chamblee. It is approximately
1.5 miles inside the I-285 Perimeter, and one block off Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.
The Gallery is easily accessible by main thoroughfares and MARTA.
The Atlanta Antique Gallery carries more than 55,000 high
quality antiques of all types and eras, in our 11,000 square foot gallery. You will
be able to purchase Antique Toys, Art Deco, Nippon, Microphones, Clocks, Porcelain,
just to name a few and the list goes on and on. Browse our antique catalog to the
left or search for a specific antique or category using the search box above. If for
some reason you do not find what you are looking for call us or send us an e-mail
and we will be happy to assist you in your search.
Featured Antique Categories
 From Arcade to Wyandotte, antique toys are an area of collecting enjoyed by all ages,
young and old. Nostalgia for wind-up, battery-operated, cast iron, military, penny,
pull, rubber, pressed steel, tin type, and wooden toys has generated an all-time high
interest in this category. Manufacturers of note are Arcade, Auburn, Barclay, Brooklin,
Buddy L., Chein, Corgi, Dinky, Doepke, Ertl, Fisher Price, Gong Bell, Hubley, Keystone,
Lionel, Manoil, Marx, Matchbox, Metalcraft, Midgetoy, N.N. Hill, Schuco; Slush / Barclay,
Smith Miller, Tonka, Tootsietoy and Wyandotte. Trains, planes, automobiles, motorcycles,
circus, fire engines, and Disney characters are focal points for many collectors, who can
reminisce about their own childhood while enjoying their current hobby.
 The natural beauty of antique silver lends itself to the designs of artists and
craftsmen. Silver has been mined and worked into an endless variety of useful
and decorative items. Pure silver is too soft to be fashioned into strong,
durable and serviceable utensils. Therefore, a way was found to give
silver the required degree of hardness by adding alloys of copper and nickel.
This was how antique silverplate and antique silver overlay were created.
Some of the major manufacturers include Wallace, Meriden, Sheffield, Towle,
Rogers, Napier & Pairpoint.
 Antique art glass was produced by such famous American and European makers as Mt. Washington,
C.F. Monroe, Galle’, Daum, Loetz, Aladdin, Fenton, Tiffany, Handel, Durand, Quezal, Moser, Baccarat
& Steuben, naming a few. From some of the earliest Bohemian engraved glass through American lacy
glass of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Co., art glass encompasses a multitude of forms including
paperweights, decanters, lamps, dresser boxes, brides’ baskets, compotes, pitchers and biscuit jars,
some being entirely utilitarian and some purely decorative. These forms are found in such selections
as peach blow, cameo, Burmese, satin glass, mother of pearl, aurene, Mary Gregory, Pomona, fine
enameled and amberina. Heat sensitive glass such as Burmese, amberina and peach blow were symbolic
of a new age of glass making science in the Victorian era. The highly collectible glass of this
era was highlighted by well known lines created by Mt. Washington and C. F. Monroe with names such
as Crown Milano, Royal Flemish, Wave Crest, Nakara and Kelva. Under the vast umbrella of art glass
also falls the amazing range of brilliant period cut glass made by many of the makers listed above.
 From the roaring 20’s flapper era to the elegance and glamour of Hollywood in the 30’s, from the frantic
and fun 1950’s to the hippie generation of the 1960’s, cocktail hour has been an integral part of our
society’s entertainment. Jiggers, shot glasses, cocktail pick holders, cocktail shakers, decanters,
cocktail recipe books and bartender caricature accessories captivate the collector’s imagination of
those eras past. The value in antique barware is both as beautiful functional objects for home use
and to document our nation’s history. Such famous makers of metal barware as Manning Bowman, Napier,
Farber Brothers, Revere, Barbours, Mappin & Webb, Meriden, Derby, and Gorham; along with glass makers
Cambridge, Heisey, Hazel Atlas, Duncan Miller, all contributed their own unique concepts of the
quintessential cocktail shaker.
 Antique collectors place significant value on porcelains from the countries of France, Germany, Austria,
Japan, Britain and America. The epicenter of fine porcelain making was located in two of Europe’s better
known regions of Dresden and Limoges. Most notably, English transferwares, oyster plates, Majolica, Dresden,
Limoges, R.S. Prussia, Meissen, Belleek, Pickard, Nippon, and Royal Bayreuth are the current favorites of
collectors worldwide. Many companies purchased undecorated blanks from Limoges and their names were born
out of distinctive styles of decorating, ranging from hand painted florals to highly gilded and elaborate
portraiture. Late 19th century American porcelain sought to capture the popularity of the European porcelain
market through decorating companies like Pickard, Brauer, Ceramic Arts Company, and Lenox. The German porcelain
market had its own celebrated makers, such as the Schlegemilch family producing R.S. Prussia; the Dresden regional
makers like Meissen and the well-known Royal Vienna porcelains of both Germany and Austria. France made a
lasting statement with fine porcelains of Sevres and Faience pieces.
 In every culture, jewelry adornment has communicated wealth, power, or beauty of the wearer to others.
Antique jewelry pieces were treasured and became heirlooms to descendants of the original owner. One
of the most popular collector items today, a wide array of antique and period jewelry is found in the
categories of Costume, Estate, Victorian, Bakelite and Couture. Signature pieces from Miriam Haskell,
Robert, Art, Coro, Lisner, Boucher, Butler & Wilson, Christian Dior, Ciner, Trifari, Eisenberg, Hattie
Carnegie, Florenza, Hagler, and Jean Louis Blin appear as earrings, brooches, necklaces, and bracelets.
Additional offerings of fine estate jewelry with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, and pearls in 14K
and 18K gold are proudly displayed here for the collector’s enjoyment.
 The Victorian era was a prolific one in the production of fine and detailed personal items serving a
multitude of purposes. Antique jewelry of cameos, gutta percha, and mourning wear; personal accessories
of opera glasses, cigarette cases, hair combs, fantastic fans; fine sewing items made of rich textures
of abalone, velvet, satin, lace; brass and bronze; fine beadwork; meticulously carved woods and painted
leathers; antique dresser accessories like lace and bronze dore’ trays; lovely antique embroider;
hand-painted glass featuring florals and portraits of women in high finery; French paintings on ivory;
candelabra; and the purest of whites in lace and delicate linens – all of these contribute to the
vastness of this collecting category.
 Antique pocket watches were first introduced in the early 1800’s in Europe & the United States.
Later, in 1850, fine wrist watches began to appear in the marketplace. Manufacturers of
these antique watches included, but are not limited to Accutron, Hamilton, Waltham, Elgin,
Illinois, Hampden, New York Standard, Lancaster, Omega, South Bend, Seth Thomas, Rolex and
Waterbury. The watch became a status symbol in America and continues in that same vein today.
See Also Antique Pocket Watches
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