The Curious Peddler

Antiques, Gifts, Jewelry in Downtown Mebane

Vintage Jewelry

Family Night Can be Game Night!

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The cooler fall weather and the shortening evenings make the perfect time for your family to share game night! Brew up some of our gourmet hot chocolate and choose one of the many games that we have at The Curious Peddler. We have vintage and new games and toys on both levels of our store. Revisit a childhood favorite, teach an old clasic, or discover a new passion. Chess, … [Read more...] about Family Night Can be Game Night!

Pot Metal Jewelry History and Trivia

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One of our favorite things to offer you at the Curious Peddler is vintage jewelry. We love the history and stories that go along with the pieces. We mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we had an especially fine collection of pot metal jewelry in our display case right now. Here's a bit of historical trivia about pot metal. For years, people had been using pot metal as an … [Read more...] about Pot Metal Jewelry History and Trivia

Pot Metal Jewelry

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The jewelry room at The Curious Peddler has beautiful pieces of jewelry of all sorts. Some of our recent additions are vintage costume jewelry made of 'pot metal'. Pot metal is the base metal for jewelry that is plated. For example, underneath a silverplate piece item there is a metal that the silver is layered onto. There's no standard for pot metal, and it could be just … [Read more...] about Pot Metal Jewelry

Vintage Toys and Books

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Take a trip down memory lane when you browse through all the toys we have at The Curious Peddler. Share your memories - and make new ones - with your children or grandchildren when you play with toys that you remember from your childhood. Have a family game of backgammon or croquet. Or just display these charming and nostalgic pieces that remind us all of a simpler, slower … [Read more...] about Vintage Toys and Books