(13) Billed as a showcase for exemplary new talent, the series has proven to be more of a bargain bin for antiquated curios. (12) Stalls displaying various kinds of glass furniture, wooden curios, clothes, etc., have become a regular feature of such shows. (11) On show are hand-made candles, drawings, African curios, sculptures made from clay and photographs. (10) In terms of shopping, there are opportunities galore if you are in the market for trendy garments, toys, Chinese silks, antiques and curios.
(9) Most of us tend to entertain our friends in the family room a formal dining room becomes a mail sorting place, and a formal living room is a museum for curios and uncomfortable furniture. (8) This annual event complements the regular antique market to be found on every Thursday and Sunday between May and September, featuring antiques, curios and books. (7) Hundreds of hawkers line the roads along the perimeter, competing with dozens of shops selling everything from curios to readymade garments and foreign goods to Ayurvedic products. (6) They have moved from a large house into a two-bed apartment - and need to get rid of a lifetime collection of antiques, ornaments and curios. (5) The house was done out with period rooms with displays of 19th century curios and antique nick-nacks. (4) One boy has a tray displaying battered curios salvaged from the area - American name tags, medals, twisted knives and forks. (3) There were no pictures on the walls, curios in the cabinets, or even books on the shelves. (2) The units make trays of different shapes, fruit baskets, stands, lamp shades, curios, mats, pen stands, wall hangings, screens, hair clips and even pappad sticks. that saying "there's nothing new under the sun comes to mind" when i think of some of the demented things people do today.(1) It is a common device in the literature and cinema of the macabre and the fantastic that an object - often a painting but sometimes a mirror, a statue or a curio - will haunt its protagonists. i saw a whole museum that was dedicated to the human body with pickled parts in jars everywhere & endless shelves of bones & whatever - the less normal it was the better, 2 or 3 stories, i forget which, maybe even 4 & a large build too all stuffed together so tight making it seem small.
the prior answer of unusual objects or bric-a-brac just doesn't come close. they even put dead human body parts in food recipes that were considered delicacies.
as deep as you want to go with this you will probably never reach their lust for macabre. where taking family portraits with your dead relatives was a normal thing we have nothing on the curiosity shops, what would seem today to be a trick hand made of plastic would be a stuffed human hand. the curiosity shops used to have lots of taxidermy projects, not just normal animal mounts but freaky two-headed things designed to give nightmares, aside from the animals there were also human projects, human parts, anything you can imagine that was fodder for bad experiences, sometime YOU ended up the curio or parts of you did. Ten years too late but better than to lose an interesting piece of macabre history.Ĭuriosities used to be quite creepy, things that could scare the timid to death, which seemed to be the point.
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