TIAS.com is an online retail marketplace for antiques

Antiques

An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age , beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features...

 and collectibles. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Grapevine, Texas

Grapevine, Texas

Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...

 United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 as well as Garden City, New York

Garden City, New York

Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is located on Long Island, to the east of New York City, from mid-town Manhattan, and just south of the town of...

 in the New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 area. The company is privately held.

Business Profile

TIAS.com inventory consists of antiques

Antiques

An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age , beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features...

 and collectibles for retail sale by member dealers. TIAS.com runs additional internet properties related to the antiques and collectibles trade including curioscape.com, antiquearts.com and collectoronline.com . The company also operates earthling.com where non-antique & collectible items may be listed by members.

Along with GoAntiques

GoAntiques

GoAntiques is an online retail and auction marketplace for antiques and collectibles. The company was founded as Antique Networking in 1994, is based in Dublin, Ohio, United States. WorthPoint Corporation acquired GoAntiques, Inc. in October, 2008....

 and Ruby Lane

Ruby Lane

Ruby Lane is an online retail marketplace for antiques, collectibles, art and jewelry. The company was founded in 1998, is based in San Francisco, California, United States and is privately held.-Business profile:...

 it is considered one of the 3 major online antique malls.

As of August 2007 the site lists more than 500,000 items from thousands of dealers in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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History

TIAS.com has been online since April 1995 http://web.archive.org/web/19961216210446/http://www.tias.com/ and was an early provider of member inventory to eBay

EBay

eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

In 2000 TIAS acquired online antique mall AntiqueArts.com
In 2003 TIAS.com acquired online antique mall CollectorOnline.

In 2008 TIAS.com acquired 400 merchants from Architecturals.net