Fishing for TreasureAdventures in Junk

Buy­ing and Sell­ing Antiques and Col­lectibles can be fun if you are adding to your col­lec­tion and prof­itable if you are buy­ing for resale.
Where to buy and sell.
1. Flea Mar­kets
Flea mar­kets are great for buy­ing because of the selec­tion of dif­fer­ent prod­ucts (always ask for a bet­ter price ) but if your sell­ing you need to know if the mar­ket is a whole­sale or a retail mar­ket and what prod­ucts to sell. You need to know if the peo­ple are com­ing to buy or just com­ing to get exer­cise.
2.Thrift Stores
You can find some good deals at thrift stores ‚some thrift stores prod­ucts are to expen­sive just avoid them.
3.Yard Sales
Yard sales prices are great if you are buy­ing , not so good if you are sell­ing .Most of the time. If you are buy­ing and don’t see any thing they have dis­played that you are look­ing for ask them. They my have.
4.Estate Sales You can find some good items at Estate Sales but be care­ful and not pay to much.
5.Auctions
You can find some Old things at some auc­tions I like to go early to look the auc­tion items over before bid­ding espe­cially the glass.

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Bill and I set out exceed­ingly early one Sat­ur­day to visit a flea mar­ket far out in the coun­try and sell a cou­ple of black pow­der long guns. He used to col­lect them, but got tired of pour­ing pow­der or bit­ing car­tridges or what­ever the obso­lete oper­at­ing sys­tem was.

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I was want­ing to pho­to­graph some vin­tage ear­rings for sale. Jew­elry is a real chal­lenge for the ama­teur prod­uct pho­tog­ra­pher because it’s small, it’s shiny, and you want the pic­tures to be very focused and detailed. And beyond that, you want them to be gor­geous, and three-​​dimensional, and to look so real that the viewer will fall in love with the ear­rings at once and cash in her kids’ col­lege funds to pos­sess them.

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Now, Bill has never been afraid of snakes. Fam­ily lore has it that as a boy he went on mis­sions to clean water moc­casins out of the swim­ming hole. He would lay out fish­hooks and lines on the bank to cap­ture them, and then string the tro­phies together to impress the other kids.

I only heard of him bring­ing a snake into the house once. It was a cop­per­head in a jar. He’d decided to keep it in his room. Luck­ily, his Dad found it before his Mom did. If it had been the other way around he’d have likely fin­ished his child­hood in mil­i­tary school.

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