What's in a Word ?.... In this case the word being Antiques.... It seems that to generations coming after that of our grandparents, to conjure a different image.... dusty "old" stuff in gramma's funky smelling basement...Not interested... Not cool. So what is an Antique ?... The "technical" criteria is anything that is 100 years old or better. So by definition, anything, by virtue of simply being this old, is an Antique. In actual practice however, the term applies to a much