{"id":3842,"date":"2024-11-20T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/nostalgic-curtains-are-selling-for-the-price-of-a-car-antique-dealers-reveal-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:56:31","slug":"nostalgic-curtains-are-selling-for-the-price-of-a-car-antique-dealers-reveal-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/nostalgic-curtains-are-selling-for-the-price-of-a-car-antique-dealers-reveal-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgic Curtains Are Selling for the Price of a Car: Antique Dealers Reveal the Truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Nostalgic curtains and yellow cup sets that we are accustomed to seeing in every home, which once adorned our grandmothers&#8217; and grandmothers&#8217; houses, are now appearing on advertisement sites. Moreover, these products bring not only nostalgia but also eye-catching price tags.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, in an advertisement from Izmir Bornova, the price of a curtain stated to be 45 years old is full. <strong>one million <\/strong>lira. Another advertisement from Diyarbak\u0131r raises the price bar even higher. The requested figure for this curtain sold as two wings is <strong>one million 600 thousand <\/strong>lira.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-Perdeler2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15026\" style=\"width:820px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Simple accessories of the past continue to be talked about today with their astronomical prices. However, whether these figures are realistic is a matter of debate. The prices of some products exceed 1 million lira, competing with car prices. However, antique dealers point out that these figures do not reflect the truth and point out the exaggeration in sales.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nostalgic Curtains and Price Debate<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nostalgic curtains and cup sets from the 1970s and 1980s, which we often saw in our grandmothers&#8217; and grandmothers&#8217; houses, have entered the radar of collectors. However, the prices between 100 thousand lira and 1.5 million lira requested for these products are described as unrealistic by antique dealers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"310\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15027\" style=\"width:820px;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-sari-fincanlar.webp\" data-lazy- title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-sari-fincanlar.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15027\" style=\"width:820px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cThese Prices Are Nonsense\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tradesman selling antique items in Balat criticized these high prices that have come to the fore recently and said, \u201cIf we could sell it for 100 thousand TL, we would all be rich. Products are not sold for those figures, it is complete nonsense. &#8220;Even if they were gold, those curtains would not be worth that price,&#8221; he said. Shopkeepers stated that these curtains, which were found in almost every home in the 70s, could be easily purchased at affordable prices.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15028\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-Perdeler3.webp\" data-lazy- title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-Perdeler3.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15028\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Antique or Second Hand?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Another antique dealer stated that these products have no antique value with the following words: <em>\u201cIn the eyes of antique dealers, these curtains are not antiques at all. These are items that can easily be found in second-hand markets. Real antique curtains are handcrafted products made with special workmanship and their value is high. However, the prices of these products talked about on the internet are definitely above the value they deserve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Antique dealers and collectors state that the interest in nostalgic products is good, but prices should not be increased in a speculative manner. Experts emphasize that the value of real antique and nostalgic products depends on their craftsmanship and rarity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15029\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-Perdeler1.webp\" data-lazy- title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nostaljik-Perdeler1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15029\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><strong>To join our WhatsApp group <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GcUb561wzz44AcjKoMQHY6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h5>Share<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgic curtains and yellow cup sets that we are accustomed to seeing in every home, which once adorned our grandmothers&#8217; and grandmothers&#8217; houses, are now appearing on advertisement sites. Moreover, these products bring not only nostalgia but also eye-catching price tags. For example, in an advertisement from Izmir Bornova, the price of a curtain stated &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4277,4276,4273,4278,4272,4275,4279,4274,4093],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genel","tag-antique","tag-car","tag-curtains","tag-dealers","tag-nostalgic","tag-price","tag-reveal","tag-selling","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}