Another setting, Smiling Bear Antiques Shop, presents customers
the opportunity to touch, turn over and even smell
the objects, the mysterious things that produce heart throbs . . .
antiques, displayed on real shelves and on real walls.

Fitted with Smiling Bear Antiques Shop is an Anteeks Mini-Mall
featuring several choice vendors who show their excellent finds
on Black Hills ponderosa pine shelving; thus affording anteekers,
and regular tourists, an outdoorsy atmosphere for the thrill of the hunt,
while they track quality gifts and take-home treasures.

Beyond the shelves and walls, the notable setting is Hill City, South Dakota,
nestled in the heart of the beautiful Black Hills National Forest.
From historic downtown to the 1880 Train and the gold mill up the road,
these surroundings raise nostalgia!

The carefully selected line of exciting antiques found at Smiling Bear
can provide exceptional and distinctive additions
pleasing to the interior design of your unique living spaces.
An important consideration and bonus is that of investment.
Someone else will want your find, if and when you want a change.
No doubt, someone else already wants it!
And many an antique is destined to become a priceless family heirloom,
even though possibly found debunked in the attic.

For those irresistibly drawn to the charm of small metal items
(cast iron, bronze, copper, arts & crafts period, and more) . . .
these pieces will cozy-up to just about anything!
Begging to be handled, their beauty and patina improve with it.

Primitives, such as match safes, spice cabinets, sugar firkins,
antique woven split oak basketry . . . these things warmly enliven
wherever they are settled, like the presence of a grandmother.
Add candle / butter molds, rolling pins, early american pressed glass
. . . and grandmother may just move in with you!