Boston Antique Cooperative

Boston Antiques Company (apparently also known as Boston Antique Cooperative) is a lovely subterranean antiques mall up in the Beacon Hill area. It has stairs going down to it. I found the temperature to be extremely hot, even in September, and I don’t think there was air conditioning in the store. What set this particular store apart, for me, was the clean quiet atmosphere, by which I mean the way the individual cases seemed well-​maintained and kept up by their respective owners, the unobtrusive music, the lack of dust combined with the higher quality of their items.
Yes, most of what was there was inaccessible to me, but not in the way that it is usually inaccessible to me at Beacon Hill antique stores. There was no pretension here in the cases or from the staff — there are simply a lot of items that I am not familiar with, for instance, military-​related and pan-​Asian antiques. And for all the things that were not in my idiom, I was delighted to find jewelry, statuary, and other things that were. I was so pleased with the worker at the counter; she really helped me to get what I was looking for, and she was so friendly, opening a few cases for me without batting an eye (in contrast, some antique stores make me feel like opening ONE case is too much of a burden). They don’t take credit cards, but there is an ATM a few blocks down the street, to the left.
Park on the street (coin-​metered parking). There are several antique stores on this street, so a lovely day can be had by making your way up and down the street, visiting the ones that catch your attention.