Featured I wish I had a lot of money .... to take to this estate sale

The pottery and baskets - oh my!!!!! And I have a friend who would be all over those old photos!

 

As a member of the "Boomer Antique Collectors Club", you can understand why dealers in the 70s kept saying how it was getting harder to find the good stuff. Collecting antiques was a major hobby for many of us. Oh, the joy of the Hunt. Back then, it took a lot of work venturing to country sales/auctions/shops. Much less the books on collecting we bought or got from the library. Boy, could we have used GOOGLE! Fast forward 50 years as Boomers are downsizing, we see where it went. Sadly, the youngsters are not actively into collecting the truly good stuff. I see antique stuff for cheap that I used to see in books now on eBay/Etsy. Yep, I'm still collecting. I told my granddaughter in college to just pack the stuff away and store it until she retires. Maybe by then, the values will have rebounded.

 

Hopefully.......................

 

What I find interesting is the feeling I get when looking at all the photos and realizing that I have items in my meager collection that are similar to items in several different categories at this mega sale, but now mine don't seem as special. I used to go searching for hidden treasures one at a time at estate sales and thrift stores to unwind from a stressful job. So for me, buying something at a sale like this wouldn't be fun or challenging (even at bargain prices), because it wouldn't give me the satisfaction of thinking I had a good eye for spotting something special. I'm curious if the person(s) who owned this collection bought things a few at a time, or bought up other collections. In any case, I suppose all of these things are much more abundant in the northeastern part of the country than here in the Midwest.

 

They were maybe, before this dude bought them all!

 

Wow looking through the pictures I am just shocked at how many high-end items are packed into this estate. As you all know I have a soft spot for art pottery and this collection at the estate sale is a lot of the better, harder to find stuff. The person or persons who assembled this must have been very knowledgeable to collect desirable pieces in so many subject areas and their funds must have been near unlimited to afford to keep it all.

 

Good Lord-this looks more like the Smithsonian's Basement than a normal (or even extraordinary) Estate Sale !!! First of all the Daguerreotypes and Cabinet Cards are like things You'd find at The V&A or the George Eastman Photography Museum ( NEVER find this amount of real quality in Oregon-too newly settled & my town was founded in the 1840's). I guess i might have busted into a retirement account or tried to get quick second mortgage from a loan shark. A Tut's Tomb of Americana.Do these kind of sales happen much in New England ?

 

Not often. There's a crazy digger sale this weekend one town over. Too many stairs, so I'm not going, but they do happen. These things are rare for a reason!

 

That Sale was one for the ages !

 

My thought exactly!

 

AMAZINGGGGGG!