Is it vintage or Antique?

Antique or Vintage

Have you seen my poll asking about if you prefer vintage or antique items? For the purposes of the poll I defined antique as pre 1920s and vintage as 1920s to 1970s with anything after 1980 as being modern. Is this right? Is the 1920s Nutcracker in the photo vintage or antique?

Strictly anything Antique should be a hundred years old or more making all things Edwardian now in the official Antique category. Lapada ( The association of Art and Antiques Dealers) runs fairs which dateline at pre 1940 for all things antique (so this Nut Cracker would fit in) whilst Bada ( British Antique Dealers Association ) still seem to stick with the hundred year rule and so they would reject the Nut Cracker.
So my definition which runs half way between the two cant be far out. Certainly items made in the 1920s and 1930s seem so similar in their art deco styling that it would be wrong to set a date of 1930 and create an artificial split in styling.

Does it matter? Or perhaps this is splitting hairs? After all all things which are now vintage will eventually become antiques if they survive long enough. This is partially why I named this site AntiquesAvenue – things that are on the road to becoming Antiques!