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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.

One year of restaging my antique booth at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, North Carolina, from bare plywood to Christmas.A...
10/24/2026

One year of restaging my antique booth at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, North Carolina, from bare plywood to Christmas.

A year ago, The Queen's Cabinet was plywood and a lot of empty floor. In between came a columned entrance painted to match the Portland stone of Buckingham Palace, a lyre table and a Victorian walnut cabinet to anchor the room, over a hundred pieces in a single day, and fourteen pieces of art on walls that had been bare for almost a year.

All of it so the booth would feel like one English house, not a hundred separate things.

The full restage is a series on my profile, This Is What It Actually Takes, Parts 1 to 6.

Rustique's Christmas open house is today, 10am to 5pm!The Queen's Cabinet is restocked for it: Christmas I've been savin...
10/24/2026

Rustique's Christmas open house is today, 10am to 5pm!

The Queen's Cabinet is restocked for it: Christmas I've been saving all year, plus a booth full of English and European pieces. You'll find us at Booth 88, through the new entrance.

Look for the box of milk glass Santas from the 1930s.

10/20/2026

At 5 AM this morning I was watching a live auction in London, waiting for one lot: a silver sixpence struck in 1567, during the reign of Elizabeth I.

It was made in the Tower of London on England's first coin-making machine, run by a Frenchman named Eloye Mestrelle. The traditional moneyers resented him, his press was shut down, and he was later hanged for counterfeiting.

She's mine now, and on her way to becoming a necklace. This is the first piece in what I'm calling The Tudor Cabinet.

Would you wear a 459-year-old coin?

10/16/2026

A hundred pieces in, and the booth still isn't finished.

This Is What It Actually Takes to Restage an Antique Booth, Part 5.

Yesterday I moved over a hundred English and European antiques and vintage pieces into my booth, The Queen's Cabinet at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, North Carolina. Fourteen framed prints and engravings went up on walls that had been bare. The horse brass wall is finished. And the corner the Empire desk left behind now holds a drop-leaf table, Royal Doulton, and the first of the vintage Christmas postcards.

Every piece was cleaned and researched at home before it reached the booth. There are still holes. There always are.

Rustique's Christmas open house is Saturday, October 24th. One week to go.

10/10/2026

This is what it actually takes to restage an antique booth. Part 4: The Part Nobody Sees.

đź”– Save this for the next time you wonder what goes into a booth price.

I'm Kirsten. Before anything reaches my booth at Rustique Antiques in Sanford, NC, it goes through nine steps at home. Finding it, cleaning it, working out what it is, researching it, writing it up, photographing it, pricing it, tagging it, and deciding where it will live. This English ch*****ne bottle holder went through every one.

The research takes the longest and shows the least.

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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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