Cal’s Collectables and Mantiques runs as a consignment shop on North Grandview Boulevard in Waukesha, in the southeastern Wisconsin corridor west of Milwaukee, and its name signals exactly what kind of inventory fills the shelves: collectibles skewed toward the kind of finds that stock a man cave, a garage, or a den rather than a china cabinet. Described by its own owners as a small, locally owned family business, the shop takes in consigned items across an unusually wide range of categories, summed up on their own site as covering planes, trains, and automobiles and almost everything in between, which in practice means die cast models, vintage tools, signage, sporting goods, and other hard to categorize collectibles pass through regularly. Because the shop runs on consignment rather than a single buyer’s curated stock, the floor changes daily as new items arrive and others sell, so a repeat visit rarely turns up the same selection twice.
The shop is deliberate about what it will not take in, declining alcoholic beverages, china, dolls, large furniture, weapons, and any pornographic material, a policy that sharpens its focus on the man cave and garage oriented collectibles that give the business its Mantiques name rather than trying to be a general purpose antique mall. That narrower lane makes it a useful stop for buyers hunting a specific category of nostalgic or mechanical item, whether restoring a display shelf around transportation memorabilia or simply looking for an affordable, one of a kind object to fill an otherwise empty corner of a garage. Prices are kept, in the shop’s own words, reasonable, positioning Cal’s as an accessible alternative to higher priced specialty dealers who focus on the same kinds of vintage transportation and hobby collectibles.
Hours run Wednesday and Friday from 10am to 4pm, Thursday from noon to 6pm, and both Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm, with the shop closed Monday and Tuesday, a schedule geared toward weekend browsers as well as after work and midweek shoppers. Located at 717 N Grandview Blvd in Waukesha, the shop can be reached by phone at 262-777-9779 for questions on current consignment inventory or drop off details, and it maintains a presence on Facebook and through Milwaukee area Craigslist listings where specific pieces are often posted individually. For collectors in the Waukesha area who have grown tired of sorting through general antique malls for the handful of items that fit a specific theme, a consignment shop built around that theme from the ground up offers a shortcut. Cal’s Collectables and Mantiques is a family owned Waukesha, Wisconsin consignment shop specializing in man cave and garage oriented collectibles, from die cast vehicles to vintage tools, with fresh inventory arriving daily.
