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Message:: [QUOTE="'Nuff_Said, post: 12917, member: 181"]Thanks, Shi! That okimono was a nice little score. I also agree with your quoted post above. From my exp as a picker, my generation (20s/30s) doesn't really care much about the contents (vintage & antique items) within the home after their parents and/or grandparents pass way. They're just looking to get rid of whatever contents in the home so they can put the house up for sale. Not realizing that the contents within the home can be worth more than the home itself. Their loss, our gain. We pick from these folks all the time. Then you have the ones who have a "trained-eye", who claim to have been in the trade for 40+ years and are "certified appraisers", but sell us the "19th C. Chinese" vase below at 60% their asking cost. The vase wasn't Chinese, but 19th C. Japanese, made by the most famous potter of that era. We flipped it for hundredS more than what they sold it to us for. Their was another "trained-eye" older dude last week that sold us a 19th C. Blanchard coin silver cup for $2 (two dollars!). We just flipped it for a couple thousand to another dealer/collector a few days ago. We also pick from these folks all the time. Old, young, it doesn't matter. What matters is research! Some folks just don't take the timeout to research what they have. Or they have so much of it, it's impossible to research every piece. JMHO.[ATTACH]3057[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]