Brass Armadillo Antique Mall - Phoenix - Phoenix, Arizona

Erika James-Carder

My favorite place to antique! Friendly staff, unique finds, and good prices! I purchased this gorgeous painting at a great price. They run great sales on holidays (Labor Day Weekend the entire store was 15% off).

Ben D

A very interesting antique marketplace. It leases different size or type of spaces to people to sell their collections. My kids found a couple of old-fashioned toys on a bargain such as the Green T-rex from The Toy Story movie. I bought a few old leather-bound volumes or tome. The books are almost 20 pounds each cost about $15 average.

One of the vendor owner told me he paid $760 per month for the spot to display his collections. The store also charges 10% of each sold item. Additional 3% cut if the vendor paid by credit card.

It’s a smart and intuitive business model. I don’t know how does the seller feel about their balance sheet. I am certainly happy as a customer to browse so many stuffs all at once without any cost.

Neff

Sooooo many aisles to go through with cool and unique items. It took us two separate trips to go through the whole store. Things are labled well as fare as sections and aisles so you cam better re locate items or your group your with. Employees are nice and helpful. We enjoyed the old fashioned soda pop machine that still worked to get a cold one! Found some goodies and will be back in the near future Lord Willing!

Ruby Metalmuffin

Beautiful store nice and cool inside staff are very welcoming helpful and kind. Be ready to spend money in here. Was just taking a peek and left with 200 in stuff.

Derek Steele

What a cool store wow. It is huge and the selection is off the wall. You can find anything here from old restores, antiques and need to be restored furniture, trinkets, art, and classic toys. I have made some awesome pieces out of epic finds from here. Check it out!!!

Jason Nulph

Make sure you get out of this place before the sun goes down. If you've ever seen the movie, I Am legend or the Omega Man you will get the idea. You don't see anybody let's call them interesting while the sun is out. But when the sun goes down they start to fill the streets. I'm of course talking about crackheads. This is your one and only warning now on to the review.
It was our anniversary and my wife wanted to go and check out this antiques place and while I live in Gilbert and it is across the valley, I decided sure and I really wasn't paying attention. I was just following the map. I don't really pay attention what goes on in the avenues, especially since the only time I go into the avenues is downtown and never the outlying areas. The brass armadillo is like a giant flea market with air conditioning. There are some very nice items in there but I'm guessing a lot of people have a certain theme to their house and they'd want to keep the aesthetic the same. Our kitchen revolves around coffee because if you're being honest, it is an actual food group. I was looking for anything that would be considered antique artwork revolving around coffee. My wife was looking for knick-knacks and on the side I was looking for old doc, Martin shoes or combat boots. Also any cool t-shirts. I found both but the cool t-shirts were not in my size and in combat boots and doc martens were not in my size. It was definitely a win-win for someone else. But I proceeded to go through the brass armadillo and look at everything. It's got a ton of Time Life books that we all saw on Sundays about world war II or the '60s or whatever sort of generational propaganda they were pushing at the time. I also found a huge library of compact discs which if my range of music included top 40 I'm sure I would love it.
There is a ton of kitchen items from Pyrex bowls. Really nice ones but we already have those at home. Two very old and very nice chef's knives that you would have professionally sharpened. I was leaning towards those but then I thought how many more knives do I need? I used to cook Joy. I only use knives that feel comfortable in my hand and not what's popular.
For t-shirts and clothes it ranged from large to medium to small in men's. I have to tell you I can't recall the last time I saw a man wear a medium or small in men's. It left me a little confused.
There are a ton of books and since I'm a booked addict I looked and didn't find anything interesting. A lot of Daniell stuff. A lot of common crime novel things. A ton of financial books which no longer can be applied now that we have the stock market. Oddly enough, I didn't find any science books or books on physics or mathematics that made me pay attention and so I looked harder and didn't find any. I guess the idea is you only put the merchandise out that you know that will sell.
That being said, if you were into old Playboy magazines they have those for you. I even saw one with an interview with Arthur C. Clarke and I almost purchased it just for the interview.
People say that you can't do it all in one day. My wife and I did it in 2 hours. There's a lot of junk here pure and utter crap but you're going to get that. This is all about volume ladies and gentlemen and you have to sift through the volume to perhaps find something that you find great.
I did find a few things but in consideration and asking my wife. What do you think about this? She said well that would look great in your own apartment, meaning it won't go in our house. I smiled and laughed at that because we've been married for over 20 years. Truly, if I was left to my own devices my house would not have its own theme and the adolescent that lives inside of me would slowly take over. Like covid did in the United States you wouldn't be able to tell where it started and where it ended.
Is this a good use of your time? Well I think it is and I don't think it was a waste of time to go. I did buy one thing but part of the charm of this place is spending time with someone that you like/ love. Good luck out there!

Darin Watkins

Wonderful place to get out of the summer heat and enjoy many unique items for sale.

Karun Chowdary

I went out for the weekend to buy some antiques this place has a lot of good stuff but is a bit more expensive than online but it is bigger than expected.