Where Antiques Originate and How You Can Find Them

First of all, it is important to understand where antiques originate. The most common mistake made by many antique buyers is misunderstanding the process by which antique items are found. Most of the 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.

It's elementary Watson!

If you want to find antiques and collectibles that are fresh to the market, you need to go where they are in great abundance, and where they originate! Most people think that antiques originate at auctions, or at flea markets, or at antique shows. But it is not so. In fact antiques originate in people's homes. This is a fundamental truth for 99% of all antiques that you will ever see.

Another truth that many people overlook.

Another interesting fact is that most of the antiques reside in the homes of the people who are older. This is so because older people came from a generation, which majority of the times, preserved anything and everything they found valuable including 1950's toys in the closet to the old toaster that was too good to throw away. But where as the people of younger generation do not have the habit of saving or preserving anything and everything they find valuable. 

Where will you spend your "prime-time?"

Having come to know these two fundamental truths about where antiques originate, gives rise to a big question. When you know that antiques originate in older people's home, where are you likely to spend the majority of your prime time? It took me years to understand the following principles.

1. To buy more fresh antiques you have to see more antiques.

2. To see more antiques, you must look at more household accumulations on a consistent basis.

3. To accomplish this, you simply must get into more people's homes where the antiques originate.

Knowing and understanding these principles will put you light years ahead of your competition! Believe me, I know antique dealers and collectors, and most of them find their antiques through one of only 5 methods. They find them through garage / estate sales, auctions, "goodwill" type stores, flea markets and "pickers".

Knowing and understand the above principles will help you to focus on where you will find the most antiques...in people's homes.

If you want to be incredibly successful, you have to go where the antiques originate. It's time to focus on that and only that! That focus will take you farther than you ever thought possible!

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