Mercy, Maude! Antique and vintage items to live with and use today, and pass down tomorrow – value always! Member since Apr 2010, Profile

Offering pretty and useful antique and vintage items that keep or increase their value –your money always well-spent!

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About Mercy, Maude!

Our Service Pledge To You:
Items are carefully and knowledgeably described, and any flaws cheerfully and fully described and photographed in close-up. We've shipped over 40,000 packages with no damage, and will pack your items the same way that we'd like to receive ours. We love to ship quickly, and since we have a small, friendly village Post Office minutes from our door, shipping is a pleasure that we never delay. Very occasionally, there will be a delay of a day, possibly two, if my husband is traveling for business, or we are away for the weekend.

About Us
I was fortunate to grow up in a family that enjoyed collecting, using, and living with their antiques, and started collecting, buying, and selling myself before I was in high school. My selling career took me from my Finger Lakes region of New York state to New York City to sell for many years, where I enjoyed a large customer base of American and European customers who bought and used their antique and vintage purchases to bring every-day joy to their lives - rather than collecting things just to have them sit behind glass on a shelf. This aesthetic changed my buying and selling habits forever, and turned my attention more to the useful and beautiful objects that one can live with daily, rather than the rare and valuable items that must be displayed or used with great care, if at all.

With the advent of online selling, I was able to enjoy a broader audience, and in no time at all built the same sort of loyal customer base that I enjoyed for many years selling in person ï¾– but now from all across the country, rather than just neighborhood antique markets in Manhattan. Iï¾'ve sold online for many years now, and love doing so. I appreciate my many regular customers, and also enjoy the thrill that comes when out shopping, I spot something that I know will be perfect for a particular customer. Iï¾'ve decided to move my online presence to Ruby Lane, because I feel it to be a better fit for both me, and my customers, than elsewhere.

Long collecting and business experience starting as a child in the family business have made me knowledgeable on a broad spectrum of antique and vintage items in general. My special love, though, is for tabletop items ï¾– porcelain, glass, silver, and linen ï¾– and anything that can be made to hold flowers.

Many years ago, I realized that most Americans in years past grew up with silver-plated flatware on their tables, rather than sterling, and that their memories and sentimental attachment to silver patterns were naturally for those plated patterns. Youï¾'ll see a great deal of old silver-plated flatware here, and I have hundreds of pattern names committed to memory.

I look forward to adding you to my circle of customers who live with and love their antiques and vintage, and am genuinely happy to bring these things to you. My buyers are who have made it possible for me to enjoy a life of happy self-employment, and an endless treasure hunt ï¾– and I very much appreciate them!