Antique stores in Stratford

Hunting antiques in Stratford, ON? There are 8 shops mapped here. That's 8 antique shops mapped around Stratford. 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 Stratford (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Market Road Antiques and Antiques in time, plus Gregory Connor Antiques. If an antique shop's missing from Stratford's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Stratford antique lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about antique stores in Stratford

None of the 8 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.

4 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.

The Stratford antique trail

Making a day of it in Stratford? Work this order: Market Road Antiques, Antiques in time on York Street, Gregory Connor Antiques on 7 York Street, McRatterson's Collectables & Antiques on 540 Allen Street, Victoria Antique & Heirlooms, Artefacts on 46 Isabella Street, Modern Hipster, and One Of A Kind Antiques & Collectibles on 93 Wilson Street. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Antique hunting tips for Stratford

A few things worth knowing before you work through Stratford's antique stores:

• Ask for the story at Market Road Antiques. The best dealers know where pieces came from. The story is part of what you're buying.
• Check the jewellery case carefully at Antiques in time. Estate jewellery can be excellent value. Ask about stones, metal content, and whether anything's been replaced.
• Patina is value. Original patina on metal and wood is desirable. Over-polished pieces have lost something irrecoverable.
• Learn wood identification. Mahogany versus stained pine is a value chasm. A basic grasp of woods saves expensive mistakes.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Stratford — 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 Stratford can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A antique store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 8 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.