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Preface: The Dumb and the Rich
PART I How the Antiques Business Works
My Wife and the Harvard School of Business Administration
Where the Antiques Come From
Where Anyone Can Buy at Wholesale
How to Buy at Auctions
The Great Regional Auction Houses
Some People Are So Deceitful
How to Sell the Things You Buy
How to Pay for Your Winter Vacation in Florida Buying and Selling Antiques
The Canadian Connection
Fakes to Watch Out For
Price Guides
Anybody Want to Buy a Stuffed Chicken?
How to Stock a Parlor Shop
Selling Through Ads in the Trade Press
Selling at Antique Shows
Where to Buy Good Stuff Cheap
The Truth About Refinishing
Regional Sellers
How to Sell Antiques to Dealers
Buying Antiques for a Retirement Nest Egg
PART II The 45 Fastest-selling Antiques that You Can Buy and Sell for a Quick Profit
Advertising and ephemera
Andirons and fire tools
Art pottery and chinaware
Banks, cast-iron
Barbershop things
Baskets—splint and wicker
Bedside tables
Blue plates
Brass beds
Candlestands
Chinese jars
Copper and brass buckets
Decorated boxes
Desks, ladies’
Dolls
Duck decoys
False graining—chests
Fancy chairs
Folk art
Furniture, country
Game boards
Horses, horses, horses
Leaded glass
Mission furniture
Oil paintings
Photographs
Picture books and blocks
Portraits, country
Quilts
Signs
Statuettes, metal
Stoneware
Store things
Stoves, small iron
Teddy bears
Tin toys
U.S. stamps
Wagons and sleighs
Weathervanes
PART III 24 Things Not to Buy
Gravestones
Hearses
Stained glass
Potty chairs
Children’s chairs
Hanging lamps
Empire furniture
Fiddles
Chipped china
Glass domes
Birds
Fish
Religious things
Pattern glass, etc.
Encyclopedias
Fancy brass
Scrimshaw
Samplers
Spittoons
Tools
Collector plates
Silver bowls
Clocks
Victrolas
APPENDIX
R EFERENCES
Price Guides
Trade Papers
Books
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