Antique Stores and Rare Books - The Secret
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Walk into most antiques stores and talk to the owner and they will convey to you in so many ways that they are an expert on antiques.
Some will say that they were an antiques dealer for fifty years and seen it all. Others will wax lyrical about French antiques and name drop to impress you of their knowledge of anti-ques with suitable French accented phrases. Others will adopt a 'put you down' approach. They will show you an antique and ask your opinion and then belittle you on the topic which as it happens is the one area of antiques that they know well.
Contrast the antique store owner with the antiques experts on The Antiques Roadshow. Now these you may be convinced are real antiques experts. But are they? The Antiques Roadshow expert sits smugly across the table and gives word perfect description of the antique and of its provenance and history. The television audience is suitably impressed and some of these experts have achieve legend status on TV.
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You can always count on finding a stack of books tucked away in a corner of an Antique store. Antique stores buy up estates, hold estate sells, and then take what is remaining back to their store for stock.
First, let me say that you need to be aware of the fact that Antique stores will also salt an estate sell trying to sell off some of their stock for "estate sell" prices. For the book dealer this means they have to be aware of this as it could help you save money.
Find out where the library is in the house and see if there are any windows that could have faded the books. If there are no windows, but the books are faded, well, you might be suspect. Just something to think about when you are going through these estate sells. You also might find a lot of Book Club Books from the fifties. This is usually what is found. The problem with estate sells is that the Antique stores usually get first pick, so the good stuff might already be gone. Something to think about.
Are the books priced to sell, or are they really expensive? If there priced to sell this usually means that they don't want to take the books back to the store. If the books are old looking and priced out of this world, then you know it was priced by the Antique store. Antique stores always price old looking books twice and three times what they are worth. They don't know books. Oh it's true that some of them do, but most of them do not. They see an old book as being an old book, therefore in must be valuable. A tourist walks by and sees a book he read when he was growing up, and buys the book, not know of the true value of the book. It is true that being in an Antique store means you pay bigger bucks.
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