A Beginner’s Guide: How to Operate an Antiques Business: 50 Years of Trade Secrets, Advice, Common Sense Solutions, with a Bit of Tongue-in-Cheek Dry Humor ... Solutions for the Independent Operator)

by Mark Clay Grove

I wrote this in the late 1990's when I was at the height of my antiques entrepreneurial career. With the exception of auctioneering, I successfully operated in all of the related sub-fields within the antiques world, collector, researcher, picker, shopkeeper, antiques mall owner-operator, circuit rider antiques show dealer (local, regional, national), refinisher, hauler, appraiser, author, PBS TV presenter (Maryland), and a whole lot of stuff I can't remember any longer because now I'm 70 years old. This is what I can remember. It should give you a good head start in the antiques business and maybe a laugh or two. Good luck!

78 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2024

About the author

Writing fiction is Mark Clay Grove's final professional incarnation, but for assurance he maintains a day job as an appraiser. Always an avid reader, restless writer, and a reasonable gentleman with dual nationality (US/UK), he strives for perfection and insists on living by a code of honor that values integrity, fidelity, and fairness for all. Mark divides his time between homes in Fairfax and Charlottesville, Virginia, with his Peruvian wife, Chany.

What I read: Anything that does NOT have explicit sex and streams of foul language. Why? Because it's repugnant.