Bradford's Antiques

by Brad Burns

We welcome you here to make your choices on wide variety of antiques. Antique Victorian furniture, RJ Horner are among them what we deal. Your choice is just a click away.

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From the building located at 4 E. Franklin in Liberty, MO it's been a long 150 years of retailing history.
When you stand inside Bradford's Antiques you are surrounded by more than 150 years of American history.
We also have collections of Art Pottery, Antique Clocks, Antique China Porcelain
Bradford's Antiques boasts of a 2,200 sq. ft. showroom where guests from across the country visit to view and purchase antique furniture for their home and office.

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On the counter of Bradford's Antiques is a scrapbook on the store on the historic town square in Liberty, Missouri. What is so special about this scrapbook is that the clippings stretch more than a century from descriptions of an old frame and log structure in the early 1800's to one of the finest collections of antique furniture available in today's market.

From the building located at 4 E. Franklin in Liberty, MO it's been a long 150 years of retailing history. For the past five years, 4 E Franklin, under the direction of Brad Charles, has expanded from the square in Liberty to homes around the world with one of the largest online collections of antique furniture on the web.

When you stand inside Bradford's Antiques you are surrounded by more than 150 years of American history. It's not just the 2,200 sq. ft. showroom housing one of the largest collections of Victorian and turn-of-the-century furniture in the country.

Bradford's Antiques is located in a store originally built in the 1850's on the square in historic Liberty, Missouri. Civil War buffs will recognize Liberty as a focal point of unrest in Missouri during the war between the states. A half block to the east is a bank robbed by Jesse James, noted as the country's first daylight robbery. A block or so north is the jailhouse that housed Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

But, local historians are very proud of the very building housing Bradford's Antiques. Sometime in the 1850's an earlier built wood structure was replaced with the "new" building. By the late 1800's the second floor of the building was known as the Corbin Opera House, and was a cultural center for the community and surrounding area. Later newspaper articles reference the roof collapsing in the 1930's and a fire in 1955. In 2003, a tornado swept through the historic district causing much damage to the roof and surrounding buildings.

Throughout it's history, the first floor has been home to a number of businesses and in March, 2000, became the new home for Bradford's Antiques.

A few antique shops may have a piece or two of what you will find at Bradford's Antiques. Most won't have any. Just having money won't necessarily put together a collection like you will find at Bradford's Antiques. It takes a true love for the furniture itself and a love for the hunt.

For visitors to the store or website, Bradford's offers more than just furniture. There are other galleries that include a large collection of glassware, art pottery, lighting and other American collectibles from the Victorian era. You are able to view a large part of the inventory for these galleries on this site as well.

In addition to its own web site, Bradford's Antiques is active with routine auctions on Ebay (Current Bradford's Auctions).