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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 4818, member: 78&quot;]Hi Silver,</p><p>&nbsp; I am so angished at the words B. Altman. It was my favorite department store ever. It was there in the 60s where a man in the antique department opened my eyes to antique furniture. I was looking for a dining room buffet and had just left the furniture department. looking at the antiques the gentleman asked if he could help me. I laughed and said I just came from the</p><p>the furniture because i was looking at a buffet. He asked what I was looking at. I answered a Thomasville Hepplewhite for 3 thousand. he chuckled and showed me a 1860s buffet on sale for 1900. He said in 10 yrs the Thomasville would be worth about 400 dollars but the 1860 would be worth about 4 thousand. Why buy new furniture that just becomes old when antiques will increase. He was so right. I bought the 1860 piece used it for 25 years and sold it for 5 thousand. I ended up buying six or seven pieces off him in the following years.</p><p>&nbsp; When the store closed I was in tears but I was lucky enough to buy one of the mercury lamps that sat on the counters.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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