Antiques & Funk, Oct 27 2011

Antiques & Funk (Antiques and Funk) have been selling cool vintage stuff in Winnipeg since 1986

and have been at 474 Main street since 1997.

This building used to have another storey, but it burned off a while ago.

Also I have heard this building was home to Winnipeg’s first photo studio. This needs to be confirmed.

Then Birt’s Saddlery occupied the place for many years.

And there is a small earthen cell in the basement that people say was the place where Louis Riel was kept during his trial.

Though the truth of this is up for debate.

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg. Notice the Mural by Sarah Riel of Iceland above it.

 

Space lunch box!

 

50's style lamp

 

Close up of the 1950's lampshade

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg

 

Winnipeg's Exchange District

 

The Birt Saddlery used to be here. Winnipeg's downtown had a strong history of farming and horses

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awesome vintage stuff at Antiques and Funk

 

 

 

A coffee dog?

 

Washboards and Kitchenware

 

 

excellent windows at Antiques and Funk on Main street

 

 

The view from Main and Bannatyne

 

The view from Main and Bannatyne

 

474 Main street Winnipeg

 

 

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg

 

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg

 

Someone told me that this was where Winnipeg's first Photographic studio was located. Later on it was Bert's Saddlery and then an Indigenous Art Gallery

 

A nice collection of vintage lamps

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg

 

 

 

 

Antiques and Funk, Winnipeg

 

 

Children don't play with marbles anymore, do they?

 

 

 

 

Ermine Stoles (?)

 

Kim Campbell, Cream-A-Tory Soup (1993)

 

Hudson's Bay Company 1910 catalogue

 

stuffed squirrels!

 

a dove? a pigeon?

 

 

 

 

 

A Globe. Canada is not as colourful as the USA

 

a huge number of matchbooks

 

 

 

A souvenir from Pinawa Manitoba

 

Headquarters of the Monkees

 

 

 

 

Excellent marbled enamel

 

Picobac tobacco

 

Old General Electric radio

 

 

Peppermint extract

 

 

 

Drewry's Beer mug from Winnipeg

 

P. Frenzeny print from 1878 "at work at the wine presses"

 

close up of an old cash register

 

Some nice ceramics: Russel Wright; Steubenville

Russel Wright Ceramics mfg by Steubenville

Rocket needles

 

 

A Vulcan Fire Hydrant

 

 

 

 

 

A whole case of crucifixes

 

 

 

 

 

A Winnipeg Jets ticket from 1985

 

 

 

A box of old photographs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

accordions!

 

the cell in the basement where Louis Riel was allegedly kept. There used to be bars on this door (?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

vintage Johnson outboard motor

 

the treasure filled basement of Antiques and Funk

 

long ago there was a fire. it burned off the second and third floors. in the basement you can still see the charred beams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the unused stairs to the second floor

 

 

the door on the right leads to the unused staircase to the second floor which does not exist