Product Description

Assuming no previous knowledge of antiques, this is a guide to learning the tricks of the trade, developing an eye for a bargain, spotting fakes and forgeries, repairing and restoring, and learning to buy and sell at auctions, antique shops, markets and car-boot sales.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131262 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02-06
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

the definitive guide to making money from antiques
If you want to make money out of antiques, this is the book to get, it is ideal for a newcomer to antiques as it details what antiques are, how to start, buying, selling, where and how to sell, and explains everything about using auctions to buy and sell it also gives you an invaluable reading list to help you help you learn more about antiques. If your interested in dealing in antiques this has to be the place to start.

Judith Miller, the acceptable face of Dealing.
This book was given to me by a lady who advised me on matters of style and taste when I first started as a runner in low grade scrap, yet was always fascinated by the seeming discrepancy between the value of an item in it's component parts (usualy nil) and it's value as an object in the whole (often a three or even four figure sum). Whilst I would freely admit that Judith Millers little paperback is not the key to riches, it contains so many clues and helpful information that I have now read it and re read it over 100 times. Some of it is hard commercial fact (a good thing) some of it is simple homespun truth (a nice thing).
Except for one page on percentage profit calculations, where it wobbles a bit I can say without fear of contradiction that I now work full time in the antiques and collectables market, enjoy my work no end, have made some very secure friends and business relationship principly by following the advice and information in this charming little book. Providing you like hard work, long hours and a fair amount of risk, then this is the business for you and this is the book that will tell you why.