Bargain Shopping 150 Years of Epic Vintage Collectibles & Antiques!

In a cool art deco 1920s building in Spokane, Washington, Vintage Mercantile and Auction gives collectors a whole lot of ways to find cool collectibles and amazing antiques from the past 150 years! We’re getting to tour on a day they’re closed, shopping and ogling neat old stuff and getting a glimpse of the online antique auction they run weekly from their back room.

We start in the Mercantile’s mall section, where vintage is only the half of it! For all the hip collectables newer collectors like (1980s basketball items, 1970s-80s stereo components, VHS tapes and late-20th century toys), there’s an equal amount of true antiques, from primitive farm items and a 1904 World’s Fair sword to a gorgeous century-old pair of American art nouveau lamps featuring a woman in a flowing gown at the base!

Vintage Mercantile has the categories, from mid-century glass to blow molds to a pair of Roycrofter bookends. Spin cases full of fun smalls (matchbooks, railroadiana, even a huge collection of MCM butterfly pins) grab our attention, and they even open the till so we can score deals on 1970s barware, lighters and cigarette cases!

We leave with some great vintage finds, and an auction site we can all enjoy even when we’re not in the Great Northwest!

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[janetpogue]

Wow, wonderful assortment of vintage and antique items. Thanks for taking us George. I am watching a 2nd time 😊

[janetpogue]

Hi Melissa and Doug. I really enjoyed listening to what u told George. You have a wonderful shop!!! I can see why your online auctions are successful 🎉

[SisterShirley]

George, what a great place and the tour made it even more enjoyable because of your presence. You truly are the best! ❤

[crittergirl]

Excited! So are the owners, Melissa and John!

[Sass-Glass]

Oh! I know that store! It has sooo much in there! It's so much fun to go through!

[cecoya]

This was fun George, I love these places for sure. I am glad they let you in to share this store. Have a great day and safe travels.

[llmifg]

What cool people George! Thank you for showing us lovely interesting things and introducing them to us.

[debhannon]

Wow what a great store and prices thanks for the video 😁

[lynncombel]

The jello ad and boy scout sign were epic!! It's very interesting seeing all the worlds fair stuff!! Thank you, so much fun!!!!

[janetpogue]

Hi Xeno, George and Everyone hope you are well. 🎉

[elixyrmentolo]

4:50 Handplane Bedrock style. Bottom right. Always recognizable because the side has a straight top instead of wavy. Always expensive and sought after.
A nice video and a nice shop. Thanks.

[janetpogue]

Lots to see there. Thank u George 🎉 etched tableware is appealing. I have grandmother's clear etched goblets. I use at the table only had them over 50 yrs now 🎉

[CONSTELLATION_PEGASUS]

Good evening, George. Happy Halloween! 👻🎃💀🧛‍♀🧟 Those Art Nouveau oil lamps were fantastic! So happy to see they were never monkied with and electrified. That parlour lamps was a beauty, too. I liked those lamp sconces on either side of the camera. Loved the barley twist table. I'd go nuts in that crystal/mineral showcase. It wouldn't hurt my feeling to have an entire room, with the walls embedded with crystals 😜😂 Can those old fire extinguishers be refilled to use now? I have a few matchbooks - still full of matches - QE2, Twist cigarettes & from the original Carnival Cruises _Mardi Gras_ "Fun Ship". There are six decanters here full of my dad's marbles, from the 1940s. Some of them are the clay ones. I wouldn't mind owning that Scottish kilt brush. I liked that. I have a couple Peggy Nesbit Scottish dolls with which it would look good displayed. I loved that British cabinet! For $199.00...Oh yeah! Was that seated figure a clock topper? It reminded of those. I liked the Marilyn Monroe shampoo advertising piece there. I could definitely go for that _Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz_ book! That would be a great place to shop! Lots of really interesting items! Thanks for the take-along!

[cynthiaaguilar]

I always enjoy your videos George! I am always amazed by all the information you are able to retain. I always think "I'll remember that when i see it next" but it just doesn't always stick! 😂
They have a very cool building as well as wonderful merchandise!

[loridisney]

Great video lots of fun thank you George :)

[umpaloompa_]

I had no idea you were from Washington, much less Bremerton. I am from Bremerton, too. We are close in age (I'm 51), but I do not recognize you from back in the day. I went to Bremerton High and my husband went to Olymoic High. What a small world. Pearl Jam's cool.

[charlenegirouard]

Hello George I thought that was a fairly lamp I was holding my breath thinking the bottom was going to fall out😂

[BlueFeatherEphemera]

Looking at these great old things makes me wonder whether affordable quality collectibles will ever be made again.

[gregpendrey]

I'm a new subscriber. I wish i lived closer. Cle Elum, WA is quite far. But if I'm called over there I am happy to know about this store. Blue Bird in Ephrata, WA is very good unfortunately they consolidated and are not at the Cle Elum Tuckaway anymore. They had a gorgeous booth. I'm excited to see their new location one day hopefully soon. I have great things from their closeout sale.

[colleenbrown]

I love the English curio/wardrobe but I'm in North Carolina so sad for me. And I like Xeno's glass, they look like glass hankies that floated down and landed there. Fun video!