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Give Antiques and Collectibles Visitors What They Want

Martin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:21:04 +0000

Or They Won’t Buy Your Antiques

It’s That Simple

Here’s The Big Web Secret: It ain’t personal; whether a visitor buys an antique or stays on your website is dependent on one thing and one thing only. Is your site useful to their search, to their objective for visiting your site in the first place. If not, they will leave, your bounce rate will remain high, and your Google Analytic’s will sink, and your site will tumble and fall through layer upon layer towards eventual mediocrity. And the biggest secret of all, is that the way your fortunes will fail, poised as they were on your ineffectual web strategies, won’t be personal.

Let Me Explain: It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve spent on your site, how fancy your logo is, how many hours you spent on your message. It only matters what the consumer of your little bit of PHP or HTML wants – that the information consumer, like the retail consumers of old, is always right. Yes they are, they are always right; what they want, how they want to see it, and how they will respond, is entirely in the hand that holds the mouse.

Please know that their surfing habits are just like your surfing habits, and like you, visitors to your site who do not either understand your sites navigation, or who do not resonate with your content will leave, and they will leave quickly.

And It Won’t Be Personal: The wind of their quick exit is impersonal. That’s just the way it is. They don’t know you, don’t care necessarily, and will only stay on your site if there is something in it for them. So give them something…

Websites and Antiques Have To Be Useful

It’s That Simple!

Antique Marketing Secret #1: In today’s economy it’s more true than in times of boom, that buyers tend to wear their practical shopping hats when shopping for antiques. Yeah they want items that look good, that are stylish, that have value, but more than ever what they buy has to provide a practical solution to something that is missing in their home.

Shoppers leave antique stores without buying, when the store they are visiting can not match their desire with anything useful to the utility of their search.

Websites Too, Have Secrets: Think of your website as the answers to questions – not the questions you pose, or the answers you found on a get rich quick SEO marketing site…the only questions that your site should answer, are the questions being posed by visitors to your site.

You see, your visitors are smarter than you about what they want to find on your website, they know what they want to find, and again, if they don’t find what they are looking for, they will leave quickly.

And It Won’t Be Personal: If you want people to stay, to enjoy what they read, then find out what they want to read. Every page on your website is like a test. This site for example has about 300 pages on it. Here in order of visitor preference are the top 5 most visited pages on this site:

When visitors get to these pages they tend to stay, they tend to read, and more importantly, they tend to take action, by either buying, or letting others know via various social networking platforms about this site. Here Are Mine: MY Twitter Profile – My Facebook Fan Page – My Stumbleupon

Visitors Stay On Websites When Given Something Of Value

It’s That Simple

Look At This Site: Notice the paucity of advertising, yes there is a bit here and there, but not much. My focus is clear: I want to give, and have given a lot of valuable Antiques and Collectibles Research Information away for free, as my gift of gratitude to the industry that has supported me for the last 14 years. I am not afraid that this gift of information about where and how to find an Estate Sales Professional will undermined me, to the contrary, I know that my Estate Sales Business has grown from this…I watch this happen everyday.

Your Antique Store or Website Can Do The Same: The Big Guys in the antiques business are slowly taking over, buying up URLs, setting up innumerable shopping sites, and slowly taking over the internet for searches related to antiques, collectibles, estate sales and so on. I describe this process here as Big Business Is Making A Web Mall Of The Antiques Business.

Take Control Of Local Antiques Searches: In the same way that you sweep and clean your store, and manage your store’s presentation, give some attention to the internet, to the way shoppers are looking for the kind of antiques you sell…never allow for them to find an antique on the internet – from some far away store or dealer, when they could find it down the street in your store.

Don’t let the big boys control your physical mall because they are more sophisticated about how to exploit and capture local search terms and present the answers to antiques and collectibles web queries on their websites.

Good Luck Out There…

Martin Codina

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Vintage Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet With 28 Charms $325.00

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Because Vintage Sterling Silver Charm Bracelets Tell Stories

Martin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:08 +0000

We Might As Well Call Them Memory Bracelets!

I believe in memory, and the way objects are understood to hold memory, to tell stories, and act as place markers; to me that is what Vintage Charm Bracelets do – They Hold Memories…

That’s what makes them so popular; that there is a story contained, and artfully dangling from each and every one of them…

“Memories, light the corners of my mind…”

Vintage Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet With 27 Charms $250.00

I think that it is a bit of a pity, that charm bracelets are not more explicitly defined as memory bracelets, or used to tell the story of a life – used as a narrative device; I just think that would be so rich if…they were.

If Your Grandmother Told the Story This Charm Bracelet Contains…

Vintage Sterling Charm Bracelet With 45 Charms $450.00

My suggestion to you, if you know that your Mother or Grandmother has a Vintage Charm Bracelet – is to have them tell the story that their charm bracelet contains. And to have them do that in front of a video camera, this could be an incredible and easy way to gather and collect a part of her history, that might otherwise be lost.

In a somewhat related post I wrote about a person who does this sort of thing for people: Estate Sales Photographs What Happens Too Them

Charmed I am Sure, May I drape from your wrist…?

Vintage Sterling Charm Bracelet With 29 Charms $250.00

Elegant, Classy, and Fun…Vintage Sterling Charm Bracelets are a great way to make your own individual fashion statement. Every one of them is different, each with their own story.

They are for the most part not name branded, or designer themed, but are more an expression of one woman’s experience navigating through her world, and more often than not they represent her story of love – how she loved, where she loved and with whom she loved…

Puffy Heart Charms Are The Big Ticket Charms…

We Have A Vintage Charm Bracelet With 3 Puffy Heart Charms $135.00

What do you think about Vintage Charm Bracelets as objects of memory…?

Do you have a Charm Bracelet with an interesting story?

Let Us Know…

Martin Codina

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OH My! What’s An Antiques Dealer To Do?

Martin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:43:47 +0000

Is The Past Being Flushed Away?

Doulton & Co Simplicitas Antique Loo £850 From Leominster Reclamation

With rapid progress comes forgetfulness, and with forgetfulness comes disconnection and with disconnection comes apathy. And when forgetfulness is applied to history, then the apathy that follows is mighty, and that leads to the consequences of repeating all the worst that the forgotten past wrought upon the landscape of civility.

What Of The Past Should We Wash Our Hands Of?

Antique Earthenware Oval Pedestal Sink From Urban Remains

Certainly, I have no wish to remember everything, to wallow in the past, or to incorrectly state that all the past was “Glorious.” But, and I think that this is the important part, Do I want To Wash My Hands Of It…? For this writer, I’d say, I don’t think so, and I don’t think that the general population does either.

We can remember the past…with Antiques, and Odd Collectibles…

Quebec Parcheesi Board From Jeff Bridgman Antiques $6,500.00

Is the sky falling for the Antiques Business? Are consumers really not buying antiques? Will passing Baby Boomers possessions soon flood the marketplace? Well there certainly are marketplace changes afoot, and trends to analyze and take into consideration, but The Sky Falling, I don’t think so. But, if you are an Antiques and Collectibles Dealer who refuses to grow with the times, then this will be true – Your Antiques Business Will Fail…

As Dealers, It’s Time To Take Back The Internet

Golden Bridge Sparkling Water Neon Clock From Off The Wall Antiques $1,200.00

If you are an Antiques Dealer, and have moaned and complained that the malls, and Walmarts have made your selling life hell. Or if you think first eBay, and then other internet enterprises like Etsy, Bonanzle, Ruby Lane, and 1st Dibs have taken business away from you, then Take a Page Out Of Their Book, a web page that is…make your online presence stronger.

Big Business Is Making A Web Mall Of The Antiques Business…

1960’s Teaching Aid Map From Lisa Sherman Antiques $1,000.00

Own Your Territory!!!

If a local buyer in your area can’t find you on the internet, then guess what…they are going to find someone else outside of your area. Make no mistake, people are buying Antiques and Collectibles everyday: Billions of Dollars worth of Antiques and Collectibles, and many of them are making those purchases and developing relationships with online Antiques and Collectibles Dealers.

Sign On To New Concepts, or Be A Sign Of The Times

Image From: Lost City

Here are 5 things you can do.

Think Locally and Act Locally. The Major Antiques and Collectibles Websites can compete with you and blow you out of the water on a National Level, but they can’t compete as well with you in Local Antiques Markets. It’s just a fact.
Take Control of your website! Delegate the task of managing your web presence only after you yourself understand how the whole thing works. Think of yourself as the director, your store as a stage, and the buying public as a participating audience.
Spending lots of money on your website before you have a firm idea of how local shoppers are actually looking for Antiques and Collectibles Information in your area is a complete waste of your precious resources. So be cheap, until you more fully understand the most useful ways to apply cash to your web endeavors.
Befriend as many dealers as you can, read as much about Web 2.0 as you can get eyes on. Exclusivity was once a virtue in the Antiques Business, but now, it sometimes gets in the way.
Update your website often. There are basically two kinds of websites: Static and Dynamic. You want your site to be Dynamic, because Dynamic sites have a way of maintaining and increasing your sites SEO. Don’t know what SEO is, well look it up…

Martin Codina

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Sink Your Teeth Into Antiques

Martin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +0000

Sink Your Teeth Into Antiques and Collecting

Antique Dental Model From: Phisick Medical Antiques

We have to eat because we are so very hungry – like everyday 365 days a year. And we have to have variety, we don’t want to eat the same thing everyday…we get kind of bored by the same old same old. So we seek out the exotic – the new, and that’s what we consume.

Maybe that’s OK when it comes to food, variety being the spice of life and all, but what about the way our hunger translates to fashions and furnishings? Is it still OK to always seek out the new? Is it at all unreasonable to continue to demand that new items be manufactured, used a few years, then to load them onto a truck, and cart them to a landfill?

Buying Antiques Is A Small Way To Save The World

Tooth Shaped Drinking Cup Sold By Lyon & Turnbull For £380

It’s this writers observation that the biggest consumers of home furnishings are younger people, somewhere in the age range between 25 and 45 years old. Guess what, they are not buying a lot of antiques, they’re instead making the decision to purchase home furnishings of recent manufacture.

Fashion is the engine of so much new commerce, which is great. New fashions are wonderful expressions of a cultures creativity, and that creativity has a trickle effect throughout the economy – which is great as well. But what about fashion, and the search for the next Big Thing’s effect on the environment? How many trees does it take to furnish a house?

Take a Long Sip From The Past


Sold By Cowans $510.00	Sold By Cowans $206.00	Sold By Cowans $316.00

The Question Might Better Be: How Can You Meld The Old With The New

Yesterday, I was in the San Francisco home of a wonderful woman who is in my opinion, designing her interiors to reflect the past in such a way that they are still clearly useful to today’s consumers. She had an amazing kitchen with all the latest modern conveniences, but it was also decked out with antique lighting and vintage china and cookware. Every wall sconce and ceiling light fixture seemed to come out of an old Moe Bridges catalog. Art Deco furnishing were highlighted here and there throughout her house; paired with objects a’ la Steampunk. Did I mention the Marshall Stacks and Vintage Guitars…?

She is kind of like an Inspired Design Diva…I wish there were more like her. People who can show others how to incorporate antiques in such a visually stunning way, but at the same time keep the feeling of the house fresh and somehow contemporary.

Eat, But Don’t Have Your Hunger Create Negative Effects

Antique Ivory Dental Model with Hinged Jaws Sold By Skinner For $1,293.00

Here Are 5 Environmentally Positive Ways You Can Furnish Your Home…

Purchase used high end designer furniture from auctions.
Decide that 50% of all new acquisitions will be vintage
Tell Antique Dealers what you really want, they need to know.
Go to Estate Sales, their variety will surprise you.
Look for deals on Craigslist.

Now Sit Back And Enjoy Your Less Environmentally Painful Surroundings

Antique Dentist Chair Sold By Skinner For an Undisclosed Amount

Martin Codina

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Antique Typewriters “The Crandall”

Martin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:52:38 +0000

Tales From a Typewriter Collector “The Crandall”

Guest Column by Martin Howard

CRANDALL ~ New Model Made By The Crandall Machine Company, Croton, N.Y. 1886

Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with about six being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured, but the first to have a fair success in sales.

A Luxury Typewriter at an Affordable Cost

Inlaid Mother of Pearl Detail Of The Crandall Typewriter

The Crandall New Model is one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made. It has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!

It seems remarkable that the Crandall, with all this fine additional craftsmanship, had such a low selling price of $50.00 As most other full size typewriters were selling for $100.00

The Crandall Typewriter Had A Unique Type Cylinder

The Crandall was one of the very first typewriters to print from a ‘Single-Element’ or ‘Type-Cylinder’, well before IBM’s ‘Golf Ball’. This Type Cylinder about the size of your finger, rotates to the selected character and will rise up one or two positions for capitals and punctuations – before striking the roller; achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys.

It is made of hard rubber with a metal shield and type. The holes below the type are for alignment, so when the type-sleeve moves towards the roller to print, it pushes against a little metal rod that slides into the hole, insuring perfect alignment.

The Crandall catalog describes another key feature of this machine. The “Type-Cylinder may be removed, and another with an entire change of type inserted in the machine by simply lifting one cylinder from its position and replacing it by another; by this method any language or style of type may be used, including special styles of type for manifold work.”

The Crandall Type Cylinder Was Changeable!

Scripted fonts were available in order to make the type face look like the finest of handwriting.

One might well wonder why the Type-Cylinder did not become the standard in typewriter design and why typewriters with type-bars did, until it made its reappearance in the IBM ‘Golf Ball’ in 1961.

The reason was speed. Even though type-bars are in essence many separate hammers striking away, each hammer has a very simple and quick action, whereas the type-cylinder is moved through a more complicated mechanical dance, which reduces its speed to respond to the keys being struck. The IBM ‘Golf Ball’, with its single-type element, was able to move very fast because it was designed to be driven by an electric motor, type-bars had finally become antiquated.

The Crandall has a gracefully curved keyboard with just two rows of keys.

(While the modern typewriter has 4 rows of keys.)

This was achieved by having a double shift function with an ‘F. & P.’ key for figures and punctuation and a ‘CAP’s’ key for capitals. So for example, to type the number ‘2’ you would push the F. & P. key and while depressed you would push the ‘P 2’ key. Then release both. The double shift function was not unique to the Crandall.

1898 Photo showing a Crandall New Model in use

(Courtesy of The Peter and Cornelia Weil Typewriter Archives).

Article by Martin Howard

Editing by Martin Codina

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I once had a Vintage Red Bicycle

Martin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:59:01 +0000

Not Exactly like one of these Vintage Bicycles

…except it did have Big Ol’ Balloon Tires…

Elgin Twin 20 Bicycle (circa 1936) Sold by Copake Auctions For $358.00

When I was a kid of around 8 or 9 years old, my dad went to a local junk yard and bought an old derelict bike. Here’s what I mean by “Derelict” – the bike was falling apart. It needed a complete overhaul: It had shredded tires, a rusted frame, and not one iota of non corroded chrome.

That was OK with my My Dad because he liked to fix things, as a depression child, and a one time paperboy; he knew his way around sprockets and spokes and handlebars.

Back Then People Rode Bicycles More Leisurely

JC Higgins Bicycle (circa 1950’s) Sold by Copake Auctions For $341.00

The first thing my Dad did was to completely take the bike apart. And then he sanded away all the rust and old paint almost down to the bare metal, and then hanging the bike from wires he had hung from the the ceiling rafters of our Norwalk CA. garage, he spray painted the frame red; to me it looked like – fire engine red…or at the very least a speedy, very fast red…

In Those Days We Never Once Thought About Mountain Biking

Cleveland Welding Roadmaster Supreme (circa 1937) Sold By Copake Auctions For $14,300.00

After all the painting and such, my Dad still had to search high and low for a store that still sold the right tires for this bike; no one seemed to have the balloon tires this bike needed. It was the early 60’s and most of my friends were riding around on Stingrays and 10 speeds. We needed Balloon Tires…big bulbous balloon tires…with plenty of thick and road worthy rubber…

I don’t remember where my Dad found those replacement tires, but he did find them, and afterwards he put the whole bike back together.

I loved that bike.

I Rode My Bike As A Get Away Bike…and get away I did

Monark Super Deluxe Bicycle (circa 1940’s) Sold by Copake Auctions For $715.00

And my friends snickered and laughed at the bike my Dad had worked so hard and had taken so long to reconstruct. They said that it was not a fashionable bike, that it looked big and clunky – they thought that it was funny looking too, and well I kinda had to admit that it was a big ol’ funny and clunky looking bike as well…

Except for one thing: Its big sprocket held a secret.

Colson Commander Bicycle (circa 1937) Sold By Copake Auctions For 2,310.00

In our little neighborhood, on “Our Block” as we used to call it, all us kids held regular bike races. The true test of a bike was how fast it would go. To be a hero you had to win the race. You had to pump your little heart out, and cross the finish line first to achieve the checkered flag and your friends hearty congratulations. I had never won one of those races.

On the big day – the first race day of my Big Ol’ Red Bike, I was nervous even though my Dad had explained the mystery and physics behind my bikes big sprocket. But I am not sure if I believed him about all that. I just wanted to win…once.

On Your Mark, Get Set…Go!

Restored Shelby Airflow Speedway Special (circa 1938) Sold By Copake Auctions For $1,760.00

Here’s the thing about a big sprocket bike: They are slow starting, and it takes a while to gain any momentum, and you have to work at it, but then the bike really starts to move, and the bikes that were so far ahead, were suddenly less far ahead, and then I was neck and neck with the leader who was furiously pumping…and then I passed him.

Dang…! It felt Great To Be Winner.

By Martin Codina

All Images and Auction Results From: Copake Auctions, an auction house who by the way, would make an excellent choice to sell your vintage bicycle collection through.

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Pair of American Aesthetic Movement Chairs

Martin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:30:38 +0000

In Auction News: Pair of American Aesthetic Movement Chairs

David Rago Auctions Sells These Chairs For $390,400.00

Extra! Extra!

These Chairs were found in a boiler room…

Take a good long look at these chairs, nice enough right, especially now that you know that they sold for almost $400,000.00. It’s easy to think that these are a pair of very fine American Aesthetic Movement Chairs after you know what they sold for.

But take a closer look, notice the torn upholstery, the faded and scratched wood finish. The lack of original casters; the slightly split wood of the feet; where it appears that these chairs at one time or another may have stood in an inch or so of water.

Remember that Boiler Rooms aren’t where you find Treasures

Or is that Precisely Where You Should Look…?

Here’s The Back Story: A visitor to one of David Rago’s Appraisal days walked in carrying a bunch of photographs of all sorts of antiques. The pictures showed Bronzes, Ivories, Artwork and various other interesting antiques. There were no pictures of these chairs, because the person who brought in the pictures didn’t think the chairs were important enough to include.

Tom Martin and the Rago Arts and Auction Center Crew spent three days in the house cataloging and packing up the house. No one thought much of the chairs. They didn’t know yet. The chairs were in a boiler room for crying out loud, it’s dark in boiler rooms and basements.

To be Discovered, and Sell for $390,400.00?

It Was Essential That These Chairs Be Handled By Professionals

There are no experts who know everything!

A prepared mind favors chance: At a lesser Auction House than Rago Arts and Auction Center, these chairs would have sold for far less, maybe a $1,000.00. But because David Rago and staff are surrounded by a whole slew of great people, a greater community of experts and antiques enthusiast, one or two of them began to ask deeper questions about these chairs. And that got Tom Martin and likely as not David Rago himself to start to make further inquiries about these chairs.

Estate Liquidators and Small Auctioneers Take Note: It is very very important to surround yourself to the extent that you can, with as many experts, from as many disciplines as you can. Assume everything is worth a million dollars until it can be proven to be worth only .50 cents.

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Martin Codina

Image Source: Rago Arts and Auctions

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Is the Antiques Business Nuts? Ask Mr. Peanut

Martin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:35:36 +0000

Is the Antiques Business Nuts? Ask Mr. Peanut

What makes Mr. Peanut stand out from the other nuts? What has us asking: I wonder what Mr. Peanut thinks? I wish I had all the answers to this and other questions about the nuts in the antiques business. But being one of them, I don’t, only some positive speculation.

It’s True Mr. Peanut has never been implicated as having had an affair.

Mr Peanut Figure Counter Top Display Sold By Rago Arts For $1,220.00

Not that he hasn’t been to a lot of soirees and such. He is a stand out – all dignified, in top hat and those vintage spats would make any gentleman envious – where did he get those clothes and how did he develop such a wise countenance.

Here’s the thing about the antiques business today – You Have To Have a Sense of Humor…can’t have a dour face or run about all “Henny Penny.” The words “The Sky is Falling” shouldn’t be issuing forth from your lips. Now is the time to become innovative, and ask the most important question: What do my customers want? Not what do I want to sell them…

Put Your Antiques Business on the Mr. Peanut Scale.

Mr. Peanut Floor Scale Sold By James Julia Auctions for $10,350.00

Carefully weigh your past success, I mean do the analysis, what were the trends for the last 2 or 3 years. What has been selling and what has collected dust in your store. We can’t have dust collectors in our store, we can’t insist that our customers buy dust collectors and we can’t state the the business just ain’t what it used to be just because our customer don’t want dust collectors. As dealers we might ask…What would Mr. Peanut do? What tricks might he employ?

Mr. Peanut Stays Happy, No Matter What the Other Nuts Say!

Mr. Peanut Old Fashioned Peanut Candy Wrapper Sold By Dan Morphy Auctions For $990.00

Find out what your customers wish they had: Start a customer wish list. Award a monthly prize for the craziest wish. Do the unexpected. Have theme weeks. Offer drop in appraisals. Post a deal of the day everyday on Craigslist. Never stop trying new things. Look in on the competition, what’s making them so successful?

Mr. Peanut Thinks it’s all about The Display

Mr. Peanut Display Jar Sold by Dan Morphy Auctions For $9,200.00

Change is good, and more importantly when you often change the way the items in your store are displayed you create the appearance of freshness, and that freshness changes the way your customers shop, it can create imperative. It can make it look like things are selling, and when your customers get the idea that sales are brisk in your store, then they know that they can’t hesitate to make a purchase, that if they don’t make a purchase today, then the items they are interested in could very well be gone tomorrow.

Do this work today, and reap the benefits of your labor tomorrow

Mr. Peanut Vendor Cart Sold For $110.00

It’s true that there are a lot of Antiques Stores closing right now, almost half of the Antiques stores in Petaluma, CA. a town well known for it’s antiqus stores have closed. But the biggest and a few of the smaller ones who have adapted are still in business, and it’s a fact that the antiques market will bounce back, and it is those dealers – The ones Who Adapted, Shifted and Changed who will successfully make the transition, who will still be opened when the the customers come back with cash in their hands…

Join The Mr. Peanut Parade!!!

Mr. Peanut Parade Statue Sold By Dan Morphy Auctions For $14,300.00

I wish you all the best of luck, I offer you this article as a way of thinking differently about what you already know so well – as my Two Cent’s. I am certain I don’t have all the answers, but together – all of us in dialog, well perhaps maybe then some better more positive strategies can emerge.

Good Luck

Martin Codina.
Fine Estate Sales and Estate Liquidation, Inc.

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Our Top Ten 2009 Estate Sales News Articles

Martin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:52:38 +0000

Our Top Ten 2009 Estate Sales News Articles

We owe you our readers a big ol’ incredibly large handshake. A standing ovation!!!

2009, was such a hard year for so many…

But antiques dealers, collectors, and all of you vintage collectibles people, you still came to our Estate Sales, you bought stuff, and you read our estate sales, antiques and collectibles articles. It’s because of you that we are still here, and for that we thank you from the bottoms of are ancient but highly collectible hearts.

Here are the Top Ten Estate Sales Related Articles You Read Here In 2009

1. Audrey Hepburn’s Wedding Dress

2. Estate Sales The Billion Dollar Business
….You Need To Know About

3. At Estate Sales, Be On The Lookout For…

4. Stuff to Look For At Estate Sales

5. Vintage Clothing At Estate Sales

6. Estate Sales or Auctions?

7. The Lone Rangers Gun, Plus The Pistol
….I’d Have If I Were a Vaquero

8. Civil War Colt Model 1851 Navy
….Revolvers Found in New York

9. The Estate Sales Circus

10. Religious Objects at Estate Sales

So 2010 Here We Come!

Fine Estate Sales and Estate Liquidation is just going to keep bringing you all the latest and best Estate Sales, Antiques and Collectibles News and Information that we can get our hands on. We have big plans in store for you our readers.

Many more features are on the way. Keep coming, join our Estate Sales Newsletter, and by all means use the Research Links we have found for you. Our every intention is to continue making the gathering of research information as easy, painless and profitable as possible.

Good Luck Out There – Happy Hunting…

Martin, Valetta, and The Fine Estate Staff