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Antique Purchasing Poll Results

February 19, 2009

It’s been almost two days since I put up the poll on antique purchasing and the response distribution has stayed relatively the same since the early votes so I thought I’d share the results thus far. It seems that 50% of us are reducing our antique purchases somewhat (20%) or significantly (30%) at the [...]

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Are You Tempering Your Antique Purchases In This Economic Downturn?

February 17, 2009

I had to resist signing a check and handing it over the the dealer who was displaying this birdseye Maple bedroom suite. I am in need of a bedroom set badly and my wife reminds me regularly about the bare mattress in one of our spare bedrooms. I took Sunday as an antiquing day [...]

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What Are Your Favorite Antique Stores?

January 25, 2008

A recent purchase of mine is the music cabinet pictured above and below. It is one of several finds that I’ve made at Stoudt’s Antique Mall in Adamstown, PA. You gotta love an antique mall with 700 dealers and a brewery/restaurant with some of the best beer and hamburgers you’ll find anywhere. [...]

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Questionable Antique Descriptions

January 12, 2008

I thought that I’d share a personal experience of an example of the problem with online antique descriptions. This scenario happens to involve a dealer, but I won’t isolate dealers as the only individuals capable of misleading buyers. Ebay can be a better breeding ground for misleading information.
I happen to have sold this [...]

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