Putting your money under a mattress is one option, but you may want to take a look at the antiques market. There's more than bedroom furniture in this solid investment category.

Collectors enjoy a lucrative trade in antique guns, swords and armor.

The trade in fine modern furniture has boomed.

Bold colors, unusual metals, geometic designs—and the most enduring value of all the periods.

When is a lamp worth a fortune? When it’s made by Tiffany Studios. These lamps that are currently up for auction all come from the famous studio. One of them is worth as much as $600,000.

This furniture may cost you an arm and a leg but it might cushion your retirement.

A prominent expert on Chinese works of art has expressed doubts as to the authenticity of an antique Chinese vase sold last month at a London auction for 51.6 million pounds ($83.2 million)—an auction record for Chinese works of art.