Originally Posted By: Geo. Newbern
OP was about our American connotation of the terms Antique and Vintage in the collecting area. We've gotten off into legal stuff instead...Geo


Well, "antique" has a legal definition. "Vintage" does not. It's whatever anybody thinks it is. For a young guy just discovering double shotguns, a Spanish gun made in the 1970s might seem vintage. That guy's grandfather would think that was a new gun.

FWIW, World War II seems like a reasonable cut-off for vintage vs. modern . . . but that's just me.