The Queen's Cabinet

The Queen's Cabinet English & European antiques, sourced in the UK and found across the Triangle. Every piece belonged to someone first. Booth at Rustique Antiques in Sanford.

New pieces most weeks.

10/03/2026

Save this for your next Savannah trip 📌 Cynthia and I spent two days hunting through 7 antique and vintage stops around Savannah. Here's where we went:

1️⃣ Picker Joe's Antique Mall & Vintage Market
📍 66 W Montgomery Cross Rd, Savannah, GA 31406
🏛️ Huge, well-run mall with deep booths. Budget real time here.

2️⃣ St. Thomas Thrift Store
📍 1126 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Savannah, GA 31406
💰 True thrift pricing. Linens, silver, and the odd sleeper piece.

3️⃣ Tapley's Mercantile and Antiques
📍 8491 Waters Ave, Savannah, GA 31406
🪑 Mixed dealer floor with strong furniture and smalls.

4️⃣ Cents & Sensibility
📍 7701 Waters Ave, Savannah, GA 31406
🛋️ Upscale consignment. Quality furniture and decor at fair prices.

5️⃣ Clutter Furnishings & Interiors
📍 714 Mall Blvd #1, Savannah, GA 31406
🔄 Designer consignment with a fast-turning floor. Check back often.

6️⃣ Sandfly Antiques
📍 8511 Ferguson Ave, Savannah, GA 31406
🔍 Old-school antique shop packed floor to ceiling. Dig for treasure.

7️⃣ Found Objects Market
📍 2901 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31405
🗝️ Curated vintage market with a strong eye. A beautiful last stop.

💡 Pro tip: These are spread across the south side, so you'll want a car. Stack 1 through 6 in one loop and end at Found Objects on your way back downtown.

09/29/2026

This is what it actually takes to restage an antique booth. Part 2: A Whole New Entrance.

George, the owner of Rustique Antiques in Sanford, NC, built this entrance for my booth by hand from reclaimed pieces, stained glass windows included. His vision is a neighborhood of storefronts, each with its own personality. For The Queen's Cabinet, that meant a palace facade. The gold royal arms he found in England. I painted the rest to look like Portland stone, the limestone on the front of Buckingham Palace.

Come see it in person at Rustique.

What's the best piece of architectural salvage you've seen given a second life?

09/27/2026

This is what it actually takes to restage an antique booth. Part 1: Finding the Hero Pieces.

I'm Kirsten. I opened my first booth at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, NC last November, and it's getting a complete restage this fall. These three made the cut: an Empire slant-front secretary in flame mahogany, a lyre-base drop leaf table, and a Victorian walnut cabinet with a period mirror. All cleaned and revived with my mom, never stripped. You'll be able to see them in person once the new booth is finished.

What's the one thing you'd never do to an original finish?

09/25/2026

Liberty Antiques Festival is back and what a perfect weekend for it! Thirty-five years in, and this was its first fall at the new farm in Ramseur. Spent the day in the field with my mom, finding what goes back to my antiques booth at Rustique in Sanford. What are you hunting for? I'll keep an eye out.



Liberty Antiques Festival

09/21/2026

First time at the Replacements yard sale. Mom and I drove up not knowing what we were walking into.

True: picked clean by 10am. We didn’t leave with a wagon full, but a couple of quiet pieces earned the drive, including transferware I’d have paid three times as much for anywhere else.

Lesson for next year. Headed to the booth once they’re cleaned up.

DM if you want first look. Or find us at Rustique in Sanford.

Kirsten | The Queen's Cabinet

09/19/2026

Replacements Ltd holds this yard sale every other year. Imperfect china and crystal, $20 for one wagon, however much you can fit in it.

My mom and I got in line early, but pickers load up wagons FAST - so timing for this event is important (now we know).

We came for transferware and left with a few good finds. Definitely coming back to the showroom for a longer visit.

Kirsten | The Queen's Cabinet, Booth 88 at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, North Carolina.

09/04/2026

Quadruple plate was a real grade, roughly four times the silver of ordinary plating. What it never had was a standard behind it, or anyone inspecting. Wm. A. Rogers, New York, around 1900. Four pieces, one pattern number on every base, and a family letter cut by hand into something that was never solid silver.

One from the Cabinet. The Queen's Cabinet, Booth 88, Rustique Antiques, Sanford NC.

Five things to look at before you buy an antique Staffordshire dog.1. The hole in the back. The dog is hollow, and trapp...
09/04/2026

Five things to look at before you buy an antique Staffordshire dog.

1. The hole in the back. The dog is hollow, and trapped air has to escape in the kiln.

2. The base. Pressed into a mould by hand, so the rim stays rough.

3. The back. Nearly plain. They sat against a wall.

4. The eyes. Most painted, some glass.

5. The pair. A real pair faces inward.

There's no maker's mark on these and there never was. They were made in volume for ordinary mantelpieces, not signed for collectors, and they've been copied ever since.

These three sets came from a shop in Windsor and they live at my house, not in the booth. But there's English porcelain, transferware and silverplate at Booth 88 at Rustique Antiques And Collectables in Sanford, open seven days.

09/01/2026

A photograph case from the 1850s, made of shellac and wood fiber pressed into a mold. One of the first plastics anybody ever made.

These are usually called Union cases. People often call the material gutta percha, which is a long-running mix-up.

Holmes, Booth and Haydens of Waterbury, Connecticut made it, and their printed paper label is still glued inside. The hinges still work, which most of these no longer do.

The young man is in a dark coat and vest with a soft neckcloth at his throat. No uniform. He sat for this around 1860.

Booth 88 at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, North Carolina.

08/30/2026

Booth 88 got a full rebuild this week. Twenty-one new pieces went in, including Coalport bon bon dishes, a four-piece Wm. A. Rogers coffee service, a Paragon creamer and sugar made for the 1939 royal visit, and a cased ambrotype from the 1850s.

The Queen's Cabinet is at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, 7 days a week. Mon–Sat 10–5, Sunday 12–4. Come see it in person.

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Booth 88 At Rustique Antiques, 2625 Lee Avenue
Sanford, NC

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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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