How To Sell Antiques To Quickly Turn Your Money

Selling is the last piece of the puzzle to fall into place when selling the antique, collectible and fine art items you’ve purchased. However, it is the one part of the puzzle that requires the least amount of time and research. You might be surprised by that statement.

Antique & Collectible Trading Success Starts With Basic Tools

To Compete in the Antique, Collectible and Fine Art Markets Today, a Digital Camera and a Computer That Can Handle it are Two Necessary Tools for Success

Antiques & Collectibles: Calendars & Paper Advertising

If you know what’s a valuable paper collectible, you can cash in while others are fighting for overpriced items. I found $25,000 worth of collectible paper items in the dumpster after the sale.

How to Negotiate Your Best Deal on Estate Sale, House Sale & Auction Leftover Items

What’s your next move if there are items you want to buy at a house or garage sale, but prices are firm and more than you want to pay?
Do you walk

Election Memorabilia Values: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama

2008 Political Memorabilia will make fortunes for those who are collecting it. While the general public is asleep at the wheel, collectors and dealers are already cashing in on what promises to be one of the most lucrative political seasons in history.

Antiques & Collectibles: Only Buy What Has a Secondary Market

There are many areas within the antique & collectible business, and several of these areas you will want to avoid at all cost. So, before you get started, you’ll want to scratch them from your want list because they will likely not create profit for you, regardless of their price.

Antique Bronze: A Valuable Treasure Too Often Overlooked

Most people today seem to be looking for silver candlesticks or candelabras and often pass by the bronze ones too quickly. Unless they are figurines, most people pass up the bronze items. What a mistake this is.

Growing Your Home-Based Antique Business

The best advertising you will ever have, is when you tell someone that you are in the antique business.

Antique Furniture – Clothing Chests

There are many styles of chests you can run across. It’s best to buy each piece as it is, at the value it is in the condition it is in presently. Never stray from this rule. Yes, you might be able to make a piece prettier, but in doing so, you risk reducing the true collector value.

Buying Art at Auction & Estate Sales Proves Lucrative

Never presume that you know what is going to happen at a sale, whether auction or estate sale or house sale. You might be right, but – what if you’re not? What if you’re completely wrong, and you never even bothered to step foot out of the house?