The Boyds Collection Ltd.® began back in 1979 as an Antique Shop in the home of G.M. Lowenthal and his partner, now Wife, Justina Unger. Refugees from the "Rat Race," they had been working in Management at that "Mecca of Merchandising" known as Bloomingdales... when they shucked it all and moved to rural Boyds, Maryland, to start their Own Business.