Strike one

It Saturday morning.

“Hey Picker. What have you got?” John, from the duo John and Fred, wants to know what I’m selling.

Like most Saturday’s, I’m at the flea market.

“Nothing.”

The Golden Nugget Antique Market was founded in 1967. Two miles south of Lambertville, New Jersey; dealers buy, sell and trade antiques, collectibles and art Wednesdays and weekends year round.

At four this morning I grabbed a painting from the stables; threw it in the backseat; called the beast and set off to the...