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Buying And Selling Antiques
By Fani Dakar
The business of buying and selling has exploded in popularity, thanks in part to television shows featuring and the proliferation of auction websites. The options for buying and selling are endless, although some are more desirable than others. If you would like to create a business around buying and selling you have to understand the market, what's popular, what's not, and how you can use this information to succeed in business.
The best way to establish yourself is to find the most unique item that you can. It or they should be fairly easy for you to acquire. The next step is to learn everything you can about it.
Some up-and-coming antique items that are becoming more and more popular among collectors can be found at opposite sides of the country. Some of these can be found in New England and date from the time of 1790 to 1860, finding heavy influence from Anglo sources. These New England include hutch tables, highboys, blanket chests, and pewter cupboards. If you are able to obtain any of these antique items from New England you are sure to have a winner when it comes to an antique sale. You may find some of these pieces from New England so beautiful that you may want to keep a piece or two for your own private collection of antiques.
On a completely different note, from the West, particularly Texas, are becoming highly sought after. Much
of the home items found in Texas during the 1870s to 1900 reflected the German heritage of many of the Texas pioneers. Items such as wardrobes and tables, even rawhide chairs, are highly prized by collectors. Texas are easy to identify by their use of native Texas woods, such as heart pine. The dovetailing on drawers can also be a telling feature of Texas antiques. Look for items where the dovetailing looks hand rendered, not the uniformity and perfection of machined dovetails. with dovetails will appear rough, hand made, and slightly irregular.
If you are just starting out with your antique collection and want to start up a business of buying and selling you will have to obtain items such as the ones mentioned above so that you can establish your uniqueness in the antique field. You want to be able to offer antique buyers something that they can’t get anywhere else without a great deal of effort. Fani Stevens is the owner of Fani Antiques, a fantastic resource for information about Antiques, For more articles on why not visit: www.faniantiques.com/articles
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