Antiques Across America: The Best Shops, Shows, Flea Markets and Auctions: And a Lot of Other Secrets Dealers Dont Want You to Know

by Nancy McCarthy

Collects insider information about how and where professional dealers acquire antiques, listing more than one hundred of the best shops, shows, flea markets, and auctions and offering tips on making... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380786931
• ISBN13: 9780380786930
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Quill
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

"Secrets" That Antiques Dealers Dont' Share

I have dozens of different collections. I've bought from thrift stores, flea markets, yard sales, and antiques malls. Ms. McCarthy still offered me some insight into buying and selling collectibles and furniture. She covers buying antiques on the internet, making easy repairs to items you purchase, cashing in your collections, dealer's habitats, bidding and winning at auctions, and ways to tell if an item is genuine or "fake". There is also a listing of several antiques shops that are given according to general area of the U.S. The author includes helpful publications and resources in the back of her book. I recommend this reading to novice dealers and collectors. It's an easy and fun book to read. Keep your highlighting pen handy!