Originally Posted by
amcatanzaro
I consider antique to be 100+ years old and vintage to be 40+. I don't usually touch the machines from the 70's though.
Anastasia, antiques are 100+ years, because it's a fact. Well, it
was a fact: I was taught it and so were some older people I asked but now Wikipedia has a weaker version "It is
common practice to define "antique" as applying to objects at least 100 years old.". This doesn't stop eBayers listing anything from the '40s or '50s (even '60s) as antique (grr!).
Vintage is a different story, and there are a lot of people who consider 30 or even 20 years to be vintage! If you list something on Etsy, they list anything more than 20 years old as vintage
Only machine I touched from the 1970s was a Bernina 830 record. Fantastic machine, but not really any better than my 1950s 530-2 record. The older one has no plastic at all so it was much easier to fall for, not to mention that it was free.