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The Artful, The Heartful and the Droll
by Mopsy Strange Kennedy, October 6, 1998 | Reprinted with permission of The Improper Bostonian Magazine, Boston, MA
Timeless Antiques, at 1208 Belmont Street in Brockton, features quality and kitsch in antiques and oldies. Call them at (508) 580-3650.
There's a fine and funny line here where beautiful advertising of yesteryear comes together as high-quality kitsch, accompanied by such things as suave, gentlemanly accoutrements for smoking and drinking. After the sins are gone, the gorgeous equipment remains — Errol Flynnish silver cigarette cases, exotic tobacco boxes and flasks, many art deco style.
Gary Epstein, this shop's entertaining owner, also showcases objects like a big red gas pump, or the vast valentine of a Coca Cola sign, working vending machines and a painted restaurant sign from Provincetown, sporting a carved chicken. He has for sale a bronze woman warrior who zooms purposefully across a marble base ("I call her Xena Epstein"). The shop owner also loves the more aesthetic, old-fashioned fittings of various trades — the optometrist's roll-top desk, the traveling shoe shiner's bench, a trustworthy doctor made of glass. He's transformed a beautiful 1920's chrome base of a casket gurney into a glass-topped table. The Machine Age is present in a head made of a truck's compressor. One wall is covered with a huge, spectacular poster for a magician, Carter The Great, errily occult.
Timeless Antiques
by Susanne Kammlot, September 1, 1998 | Reprinted with permission of STUFF @Night Magazine, a subsidiary of The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA.
Once you've found the perfect vintage suit or dress, the next step is rounding up the perfect accessories — perhaps a '50s wristwatch or a Bauhaus-inspired cigarette case. One place to try: Timeless Antiques in Cambridge, a haven for high-end and unusual must-haves.
A relatively new kid on the block, owner Gary Epstein hung up his vintage shingle only last November (1997), and now Timeless is filled with objets d'art and one-of-a-kind oddities.
"I love to shop, and I look for stuff that's different. I want people to come in and feel comfortable, so they can really get to know the pieces." he says.
"The other day, I had an older gentleman look around for quite a while, then say, 'Thank you, I felt very normal in here.'" Other recent drop-ins include well-known style mavens Robert Reich and Peter Wolf.
Epstein's ideal ensemble: A 1940'S tie-and-tails combo accompanied by a 1930's Italian table lighter circled with silver carvings of medieval scenes.