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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TT Antique, post: 9741357, member: 2653&quot;]Perhaps it is premature to state if whether&nbsp; the &quot;golden era&quot; of picking antiques is over. However I&nbsp; have the feeling that much of the urban populace in the English speaking world (generally speaking) has been somewhat informed about the potential&nbsp; value of antiques. Hence folks would tend to just give an arbitrary high price to anything that is old just in case. This is thanks to various TV shows from 40+ years onwards like antique roadshow, Lovejoy etc. Pretty much similar thing can be said about continental&nbsp; Europe especially&nbsp; western and central Europe. Hence in general&nbsp; finding valuable antiques in major cities&nbsp; and urban centers of the western world may have become scarce by each passing year.&nbsp; However, I dont know about the USA,&nbsp; but I do believe picking in&nbsp; smaller towns and rural spots&nbsp; in much of the&nbsp; western world (eg. Europe) could still be a potential goldmine...Also picking in&nbsp; some Asian,&nbsp; African and Latin American&nbsp; countries (eg. while vacationing) could still offer great opportunities. Though in these places the distinction between &quot;antiquities&quot;&nbsp; and &quot;antiques&quot; is rather&nbsp; foggy&nbsp; potentially&nbsp; landing someone in trouble..actually&nbsp; this issue is also a problem in certain&nbsp; European&nbsp; countries like Greece and Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other frontier&nbsp; is just to hunt&nbsp; &quot;sleeper&quot; art and antiques in smaller auction houses online or in person. I said &quot;smaller houses&quot; because the big houses are normally&nbsp; monitored&nbsp; by many experienced&nbsp; experts and the in house expertise of these bigger auction&nbsp; houses&nbsp; are also very good in general to not misattribute or misvalue an item( generally speaking). That may not be always the case in smaller auction houses... But this may require for one to really specialise in certain areas to be really eagle-eyed and&nbsp; competitive . But for me the traditional travelling picker will have much exciting&nbsp; times. The modern travelling picker is someone who has continued the legacy of antiquarian book pickers of medieval ( and later) times&nbsp; who travelled across countries and continents in search of valuable&nbsp; and prized books.</p><p><br /></p><p>TTA[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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