Double Your Money in Antiques in 60 Days

Turn Your Collecting Hobby into a Profitable Weekend Sideline or Full-Time Business

By: George Grotz

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Paperback | 17 December 1985 | Edition Number 1

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Popular antiques expert George Grotz reveals how to make real money in the antiques trade -- must reading for every collector, auction-goer, and flea-market fanatic.B& W photographs throughout

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Preface: The Dumb and the Rich	p. xi
How the Antiques Business Works
My Wife and the Harvard School of Business Administration	p. 3
Where the Antiques Come From	p. 8
Where Anyone Can Buy at Wholesale	p. 14
How to Buy at Auctions	p. 23
The Great Regional Auction Houses	p. 29
Some People Are So Deceitful	p. 34
How to Sell the Things You Buy	p. 36
How to Pay for Your Winter Vacation in Florida Buying and Selling Antiques	p. 42
The Canadian Connection	p. 46
Fakes to Watch Out For	p. 51
Price Guides	p. 57
Anybody Want to Buy a Stuffed Chicken?	p. 61
How to Stock a Parlor Shop	p. 63
Selling Through Ads in the Trade Press	p. 66
Selling at Antique Shows	p. 68
Where to Buy Good Stuff Cheap	p. 70
The Truth About Refinishing	p. 74
Regional Sellers	p. 77
How to Sell Antiques to Dealers	p. 80
Buying Antiques for a Retirement Nest Egg	p. 82
The 45 Fastest-selling Antiques that You Can Buy and Sell for a Quick Profit
Advertising and ephemera	p. 87
Andirons and fire tools	p. 88
Art pottery and chinaware	p. 90
Banks, cast-iron	p. 93
Barbershop things	p. 95
Baskets--splint and wicker	p. 96
Bedside tables	p. 99
Blue plates	p. 100
Brass beds	p. 102
Candlestands	p. 102
Chinese jars	p. 104
Copper and brass buckets	p. 106
Decorated boxes	p. 107
Desks, ladies'	p. 108
Dolls	p. 109
Duck decoys	p. 111
False graining--chests	p. 113
Fancy chairs	p. 116
Folk art	p. 118
Furniture, country	p. 121
Game boards	p. 124
Horses, horses, horses	p. 126
Leaded glass	p. 127
Mission furniture	p. 129
Oil paintings	p. 131
Photographs	p. 135
Picture books and blocks	p. 137
Portraits, country	p. 138
Quilts	p. 140
Signs	p. 141
Statuettes, metal	p. 144
Stoneware	p. 145
Store things	p. 147
Stoves, small iron	p. 149
Teddy bears	p. 151
Tin toys	p. 152
U.S. stamps	p. 154
Wagons and sleighs	p. 156
Weathervanes	p. 157
24 Things Not to Buy
Gravestones	p. 163
Hearses	p. 163
Stained glass	p. 164
Potty chairs	p. 164
Children's chairs	p. 164
Hanging lamps	p. 164
Empire furniture	p. 164
Fiddles	p. 165
Chipped china	p. 165
Glass domes	p. 165
Birds	p. 165
Fish	p. 165
Religious things	p. 165
Pattern glass, etc.	p. 166
Encyclopedias	p. 166
Fancy brass	p. 166
Scrimshaw	p. 166
Samplers	p. 166
Spittoons	p. 166
Tools	p. 167
Collector plates	p. 167
Silver bowls	p. 167
Clocks	p. 167
Victrolas	p. 168
Appendix
References	p. 171
Price Guides	p. 171
Trade Papers	p. 172
Books	p. 173
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Double Your Money in Antiques in 60 Days

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