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Do You Visit Antique/vintage/collectable Fairs?
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Are you a fan of antiques and collectables? Do you visit Antique and collectables fairs? What are you on the hunt for; what do you collect?
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I've been standing at a few small, local fairs selling a bit of everything, but I'm wanting to concentrate more on one thing. I've considered glass especially the big 70s pieces that I always manage to sell, but they're very heavy to lug around so I'm just wondering about other things.
Thanks for you replies.
Thanks for you replies.
No, never been to one.
I don’t like having ‘stuff’ around although I do enjoy watching all the antique programmes. I’ve never understood the need/desire to collect things, they just gather dust.
The only things I have in my house are those passed down through the family, maybe one or two items we’ve bought because we liked them.
I don’t like having ‘stuff’ around although I do enjoy watching all the antique programmes. I’ve never understood the need/desire to collect things, they just gather dust.
The only things I have in my house are those passed down through the family, maybe one or two items we’ve bought because we liked them.
We stood at Antique Fairs for about 5 years. We would have a selection of lots of things from vintage dinner sets, Japanese tea sets, Goebel birds, Beswick dogs and birds, Blue Mountain pottery and lots of old glassware; in fact anything we could buy at auction and make a goodly profit.
The more variety you can offer the wider your target audience will be; just to sell one specific range rather limits to a certain section of collectors.
Good luck though, we thoroughly enjoyed it and meet some terrific traders.
One tip - always display off a black cloth.
The more variety you can offer the wider your target audience will be; just to sell one specific range rather limits to a certain section of collectors.
Good luck though, we thoroughly enjoyed it and meet some terrific traders.
One tip - always display off a black cloth.
I can't go to fairs right now because of the dogs but I browse online. I collect sliding hinge cigarette cases and inexpensive treen. I have recently discovered a bloke called Anthony Ottignon who used to live in Morfolk and produced the most amazing repro georgian treen with marquetry decoration. His work was sold with swing tags on but unsigned. The person I have bought most of my bits from knew him because he was a friend of the person's parents. He thinks there could be bits floating around believed to be the real thing. It wouldn't surprise me!
I like these plastic brooches. Think theyre made from windows of war planes - anyone know different?
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yes, that article is about Lucite and the myth that jewellery was made from plane windows...apparently the lucite was too thin although some pilots did make gifts for their loved ones. The reverse carved brooches that you show are very skilled work, unlikely to have been often made by amateurs. From my link "Jewelry historian Bobye Syverson, who also flew and worked on some of the planes, questions this story, explaining that the windshields were only ¼ to ½ of an inch thick. Although it's true that many military mechanics would carve rings out of Lucite windshields as souvenirs for their girlfriends, those tended to yellow in a way Jelly Bellies do not."
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