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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;artsfarm, post: 196441, member: 3418&quot;]Wow, I&#039;ve had a few good ones, but one of my favorites was when I was at a flea market, and one of the vendors decided to get out of the business. She had boxes, totes and trunks full of &#039;stuff&#039; for a quarter. There was a huge mob digging, but in one box I saw a book with what looked like hide binding. I grabbed it, paid for it. It turned out to be a German book on Martin Luther, printed in the 1670s. A cool detail was inside the covers, where the names and dates of each family member it was passed on to was written. It sold on eBay for over $400. This was sometime in the late 1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Around the same time, I worked for a wealthy elderly woman who wanted me to help her with 4 storage units full of stuff she wanted to sort through. I stood in the hall while she went through the boxes, and she kept telling me to throw things into trash bags and toss them. There was antique clothing &amp; shoes, paper goods, books, all kinds of things. I asked if she&nbsp; was sure she wanted to trash it all. She insisted, and said &quot;you want it, take it!&quot; That potential trash supported me for at least a year. There was a book on a woodcut artist from the area, and also a hardbound exhibition catalog for a charity event displaying&nbsp; Dali&#039;s jewelry. They brought about $200 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most surprising sale out of that bunch was about a dozen packages of printed Dennison holiday crepe paper--St Patrick&#039;s Day, Easter, Christmas etc and all in their original wrappers. I put them in lots on eBay, and made about $300 on them. A guy who ran a museum in Kingston NY just happened to have a room in the museum dedicated to vintage ephemera and bought it all. Pure luck, that was <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I miss the &quot;good ole days&quot; lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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