Antiques (from the Latin: antiquus "old") are old interesting objects, such as furniture, weapons, artwork, and home furnishings.
There is no widely accepted general definition of how antique a thing is, but items that are more than a hundred years old can be called antique. [1] In the United States, the Smoot-Hawley1930 Customs Law defines antiques as "works of art (except rugs and carpets made after 1700), collections in illustrations of the progress of art, works of bronze, marble, terracotta, pariah, pottery, or porcelain, artistic antiquities and objects of ornamental character as well as educational value to be produced before 1830. "antiques are old things again, or the goods of the 1990
