Getaways & Day Trips GuideDay trips: Antique hunting

Artefacts Salvage and Design

  • 46 Isabella St. View on map »
  • St. Jacobs
  • 519-664-3760
Located two blocks from St. Jacobs’s main strip, this enormous store specializes in antique salvage. Choose between fireplace mantels in stone ($1,000–$2,000) or pine ($400–$900), or order a custom reproduction instead. Victorian and late-19th-century hardware ranges from as low as $5 for a pair of steel doorknobs to a couple of ornate brass knobs with decorative rosettes for $175. A huge selection of solid wood doors starts at $25 and can rise to more than $950. Old cast iron and wrought iron gates ($150–$750) can be transformed into beds, garden gates or side tables.
When:
M and Tu by chance, W–Sa 10–5, Su 1–5; holiday hours vary.
Location
  • map marker #1
    46 Isabella St. ,
    St. Jacobs
  • 519-664-3760

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