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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 480539, member: 85&quot;]I haven&#039;t read everyone&#039;s comments.</p><p>So I might be touching on areas already mentioned.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;antiques&quot; field has many venues and loads of different strategies.</p><p>From your comments, you sound like me, in that you are interested in everything.&nbsp; Which means you may not ever be a specialist in anything.&nbsp; Which is ok.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Garage sales, flea markets, malls, individual shops, ebay, etsy, high end auctions, etc.; all have different mind sets.&nbsp; Different selling stategies.</p><p>It is good to familiarize yourself with all of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Keep it simple. Cross reference.&nbsp; You want to be able to go back to items that were purchased years earlier.&nbsp; My book goes back to 1978 of everything I have purchased to keep or buy.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t learn to cross reference until the 1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to be a broad based dealer, I recommend picking up old Warman&#039;s or Schroeder&#039;s price guides.&nbsp; Simply because they cover everything.&nbsp; You can find them at used book stores, probably on ebay or abebooks.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t matter what year, as prices are no longer relevant.&nbsp; What you are looking at are the descriptions and pictures.</p><p>Kovel&#039;s are out there as well, I just never liked their books.&nbsp; Miller&#039;s is another one worth looking at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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