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Where Do Antiques Originate and How Can I Find Them?

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It's important to understand where antiques originate. Many antique buyers make the mistake of misunderstanding the process by which antique items are found. Many collectors and dealers waste valuable time searching in places where they believe that these items are in great abundance. But a true understanding of where antiques originate seems to have eluded many well meaning antique dealers and collectors.

If you want to find antiques and collectibles, you need to go where they are in great abundance, and where they originate. Antiques do not originate at auctions, or at flea markets, or at antique shows. Antiques originate in people's homes. This is a fundamental truth for 99% of all antiques that you will ever see.

The other simple fact is that antiques that you are most likely to get a great deal on reside in the homes of people who are older. Young people do not, as a general rule have antiques in the abundance that older people do. Because older people came from a generation that saved everything, and you will find that a majority of the time they have kept it all. From the 1950's toys in the closet to the old toaster that was just too good to throw away, older folks still have most of everything they ever owned.

To buy more fresh antiques you have to see more antiques. To see more antiques, you must look at more household accumulations on a consistent basis. To accomplish this, you must simply get into more people's homes where the antiques originate.

Most antique dealers and collectors find their antiques through one of five methods. They find them through garage and estate sales, auctions, goodwill type stores, flea markets and pickers.

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