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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2595953, member: 2844&quot;]When I started my bricks and mortar antiques shop, I was probably the youngest in the trade here in the Netherlands. There were occasions when I went out to buy stock and the seller would say that it cost much more than my pocket money.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> Obviously I would spend my money elsewhere.</p><p>There was a collector/seller who had taught me a lot over the years, and she told other traders that I knew what I was talking about. But there was one trader who couldn&#039;t believe that someone so young could know anything about antiques.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> One day he overheard me talking to a collector, and he came up to me and said in amazement &quot;you really do know something about it&quot;. At least he admitted it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because of these experiences, and having started collecting at a very early age myself, I always took kids who came to my shop very seriously, no matter how young they were.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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