Plate collecting can be hot and cold. I’ve had months go by without a single trade with anyone, let alone a purchase (last winter was really boring). And then, without warning, people call. I used to hear from more people regarding plates to sell when Ontplates.com operated as a YOM business, but now that I’m not paying big bucks for the search engine optimization, I don’t get as much traffic. I expected that when I closed the shop. But the brand recognition is helping, and I

It was nearly 20 years ago that Eric Vettoretti and I came to know the “institution” that is Rideau Antiques. Situated atop a hill in the Ontario village of Lombardy, it has been selling furniture, doors, windows, jars, bottles, sinks, signs, silverware, sirens, and pretty much anything else that you can think of since the 1960s.