How To Be An Antique Picker
(Page 8 of 9)
July/August 1971
By the Mother Earth News editors
On selling antiques to friends: if you can't resist the universal temptation to sell things to your friends at cost, sooner or later everyone is going to be your friend. Matter of fact, you'll slowly starve to death surrounded by friends. Remember that you've invested your time, skill, capital and transportation in these antiques. It's essential that you recoup your investment in order to survive. If you explain it to your friends that way your real friends will understand. Besides, if you give them a dealer's price, they'll still be buying from you for far less than they'd pay in a shop.
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Happy pickin'.
HERE'S THAT LIST OF USEFUL BOOKS ON ANTIQUES:
AMERICAN COUNTRY FURNITURE 1780-1875
Ralph and Terry Kovel
Crown Publishing
THE ANTIQUES BOOK
Alice Winchester
Bonanza Books
FIELD GUIDE TO EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE*
Thomas H. Ormsbee
Bonanza Books
FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN VICTORIAN FURNITURE
Thomas H. Ormsbee
Bonanza Books
THE CARE AND REPAIR OF ANTIQUES
Thomas H. Ormsbee
Grammercy Publishing
THE EASY EXPERT IN COLLECTING AND RESTORING AMERICAN ANTIQUES
Moreton Marsh J. B.
Lippincott and Co.
AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ANTIQUES
American Heritage
PRICE GUIDE TO PATTERN GLASS
EARLY AMERICAN PRESSED GLASS
EARLY AMERICAN PRESSED GLASS HANDBOOK
SANDWICH GLASS
SANDWICH GLASS HANDBOOK
VICTORIAN GLASS
VICTORIAN GLASS HANDBOOK
19th CENTURY Y ART GLASS
ANTIQUE FAKES AND REPRODUCTIONS
All by Ruth Webb Lee (THE authority on American Glass)
M. Barrows and Co.
FURNITURE TREASURY (3 vols.)
Wallace Nutting
MacMillan Publishing
(5,000 photographs of every imaginable style of antique furniture)
OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS
Frederick James Britten
*FOOTNOTE TO BOOK LIST: These field guides as well as some of Ruth Webb Lee's books have price lists in them. Disregard the prices Since these books were published in the early 60's, the prices have gone up considerably. Besides, the prices in those books were never very valid to begin with. You just can't place a fixed price on antiques.
The book list is far from complete. It'll do to get you started, though. Once you get to the library, you'll discover all the other great books that I've forgotten to mention.
*This digression comes in the form of a footnote because if it came in the middle of the article, you'd probably forget what I was writing about by the time you got to the end of it.
Here's an invaluable tip for anyone interested in (A) antiques (B) saving money (C) getting a bit of a break nn income taxes . . . which should cover just about everybody. Run right out and get yourself a sales tax license and whatever other licensing might be necessary to operate an antique shop. (Doesn't cost much . . . when I was dealing back home, all you needed was a sales tax license which cost two dollars and was good forever).
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