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Originally Posted by drcy
Antiquity means Ancient Greece and Rome, etc. George Washington's walking stick would be too modern for antiquity.
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All true, but I wouldn't really consider George Washington's walking stick an antique either.
I could be mistaken, but I consider antiquity to begin sometime before the middle ages. Those are antiques (ie. from the Antiquity).
Edited to add: I looked up Antiquity and found a similar definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquity