In answer to Jean: We've written about this before, and I'm not going to
the government for a definition, because Arachne archives are full of memos
on the subject.
Every time I've checked, Antiques were defined as being items over 100
years of age. Americans come across this when we
I'm going by the American editions of the Antiques Road Show that have been
shown in the UK, which of course is the only way we can judge what's
considered an antique in the US. Obviously the experts on that programme
have been lax in their definition of an antique.
Jean Nathan in Poole, Dorset,
