Antique stores in Cumberland
Hunting antiques in Cumberland, BC? There are 4 shops mapped here. That's 4 antique shops mapped around Cumberland. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. The dealers who love their stock love talking about it — ask, and you'll learn more in an hour than any guide teaches.
This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Cumberland (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Blinking Star Antiques and Merville Military & Secondhand Store, plus Black Creek Antiques & Collectibles. If an antique shop's missing from Cumberland's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Cumberland antique lineup
4 mapped within about 40 km:
Blinking Star Antiques
Antique store
Blinking Star Antiques — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Blinking Star Antiques: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +1-250-335-1752
Merville Military & Secondhand Store
Antique store
Merville Military & Secondhand Store is Antique store on 7387 North Island Highway. Merville Military & Secondhand Store also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
7387 North Island Highway
Phone: +1-250-337-1750
Black Creek Antiques & Collectibles
Antique store
Black Creek Antiques & Collectibles — Antique store on 2357 Catherwood Road. Also worth knowing about Black Creek Antiques & Collectibles: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
2357 Catherwood Road
Phone: +1-250-337-8403
Abbeylane Antiques
Antique store
Abbeylane Antiques is Antique store on 1595 Comox Road. Abbeylane Antiques also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
1595 Comox Road
Phone: +1-250-334-4567
What the map tells us about antique stores in Cumberland
None of the 4 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Antique dealers keep fairly standard hours; daytime visits are the safe bet.
Most of the antique stores in Cumberland list a phone number. Useful for asking about specific pieces or estate arrivals.
The Cumberland antique trail
Making a day of it in Cumberland? Work this order: Blinking Star Antiques, Merville Military & Secondhand Store on 7387 North Island Highway, Black Creek Antiques & Collectibles on 2357 Catherwood Road, and Abbeylane Antiques on 1595 Comox Road. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking.
Antique hunting tips for Cumberland
The dealers' own advice, for Cumberland:
- Check for woodworm (honestly) at Blinking Star Antiques. Old furniture sometimes has it. Look for the telltale holes, ask the dealer, and know it's treatable but real.
- Beware the reproduction at Merville Military & Secondhand Store. Good fakes exist for everything collectible. If the price seems too good, assume reproduction until proven otherwise.
- Keep receipts and records. For anything valuable, keep the receipt and the dealer's description. Provenance starts with you.
- Start with what you love. Collect what interests you, not what's 'hot'. Markets cool; genuine interest doesn't.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Cumberland — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new antique store in Cumberland can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 4, or a antique store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
We don't list prices or authenticate pieces — that's the dealer's job in person. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Antique store listings for Cumberland: 4 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.