1.   But gold is being taken seriously by suppliers as diverse as the Pottery Barn and antiques shops along Madison Avenue.

2.   Visit antiques shops to learn about French styles, museums to see French art and foreign movies to see the French lifestyle.

3.   She haunts flea markets, thrift stores and antiques shops, buying a piece of miniature china here, a book there, a doll dress over there.

4.   Several years ago, while rummaging through a Moscow antiques shop, I chanced on a stack of old family photographs.

5.   Wilzig, an assemblage artist, often peruses junk and antiques shops for objects to use in her sculptures.