Description: Vantines.net is an on-line museum celebrating this long defunct importer of Asian goods.
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Welcome to Vantines.net, an on-line museum celebrating this long defunct importer of Asian goods. I have been an avid collector of Vantines' items for several years and I created this site as a repository of information. Please contact me if you have any comments, questions, or would like to contribute pictures or content. The story of Vantine's and pictures of Mr. Vantine and his wife below are taken from "The Biography of Ashley Abraham Van Tine" as hosted on rootsweb.ancestry.com . There is currently an
Ashley Abraham Vantine , one of the most notable of the up-town merchants of this city, was born Oct. 12, 1821, in Chazy, N.Y., and died at his home, No. 153 West 57th street in this city, Jan. 25, 1890. He traced his family line back to old Holland stock, and his father, David Vantine, followed the occupation of a farmer. It was upon the farm that Ashley A. Vantine began life. He grew up rugged in health, practical and energetic, and, with a country school education, took the first step in the way of bette