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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9616115, member: 10944"]Same as far as affording good examples. The stuff gets ignored at auction mostly once the prices go over a penny or two on the dollar of what it “should” be worth vs. much of other tribal/primitive art. There was an eBay seller I bought stuff off of weekly for probably between a year and two years. He was liquidating his grandfathers inventory and collection. Grandfather had owned a gallery/store in Manhattan and been a prolific collector. I felt bad about the prices I was paying for nice older African things. Nearly every week I’d buy at least a handful of things from him and the African stuff I’d often get for under $10 per item. Legitimately early 20th century stuff in most instances, some possibly older. The guy had stuff from all over the world, from antique to ancient, all of it worth having. I was sad when he finally got to the end of the stuff. I still sell bits of it here and there and it forms a decent little chunk of my collection, including some of my favorite objects. It’s a nice surprise when every 4-6 months or so one of the African things I have listed gets a Cha Ching[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9616115, member: 10944"]Same as far as affording good examples. The stuff gets ignored at auction mostly once the prices go over a penny or two on the dollar of what it “should” be worth vs. much of other tribal/primitive art. There was an eBay seller I bought stuff off of weekly for probably between a year and two years. He was liquidating his grandfathers inventory and collection. Grandfather had owned a gallery/store in Manhattan and been a prolific collector. I felt bad about the prices I was paying for nice older African things. Nearly every week I’d buy at least a handful of things from him and the African stuff I’d often get for under $10 per item. Legitimately early 20th century stuff in most instances, some possibly older. The guy had stuff from all over the world, from antique to ancient, all of it worth having. I was sad when he finally got to the end of the stuff. I still sell bits of it here and there and it forms a decent little chunk of my collection, including some of my favorite objects. It’s a nice surprise when every 4-6 months or so one of the African things I have listed gets a Cha Ching[/QUOTE]
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