First and foremost, if you are going to buy antiques, you should understand a little about where they come from so that you do not repeat the mistakes that so many antique buyers do. If you don’t know where the items originate, you will likely join the legions of people who are simply looking in the wrong spot when trying to purchase a product. The dealer, collector, and buyer market is sadly full of people who do not grasp the concept of how an antique develops fully.
You should begin your searching for antiques by going to the place where all such collectibles originate. The answer is not, contrary to popular belief, an auction, flea market, or other type of antique display. This is something that will remain true for 99 percent of any and all antiques that you will ever run across.
Another fact to keep in mind is that most antiques are in the homes of older citizens. This is in contrast to the fact that most young people do not own them at all. The reason for this is simply because many older people are from a generation that saved everything and frequently have kept it all. The origins of antiques come from the older people’s inabilities to throw away the old toaster that doesn’t work, or the old toys they have from the 1950s.
That brings up another question, since you now know where and how antiques originate. Understanding that antiques originate in people’s homes, and mostly those of older people, where will you spend the majority of your prime time? I wasted many valuable years in trying to grasp the following principles.
1. You are going to need to see more fresh antiques in order to buy more. 2. In order to see more of them, you have to look at more household accumulations. 3. In order to achieve this, you must gain access to more people’s homes where the antiques originate.
Using these simple principles shall give you a boost over the competition. Undoubtedly, your competition will fall under the trap that most antique collectors do, which is searching through the same five methods that don’t work when getting their antiques. These methods usually include: garage/estate sales, auctions, Goodwill or similar stores, flea markets, and “pickers”.
. If you want to be incredibly successful, you have to go where the antiques originate. Stay the course and focus on the concepts you learned above, and you will find yourself going very far in your search!