Category Archives: antiques & collectibles

Back In Business

  By Dr Saxe | January 23, 2012 - 3:37 pm | antiques & collectibles, business, Finance, marketing, money, shopping, technology
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If I do finally decide to get back into the flea market business and it works well, I’m going to be looking at buying a van to haul the merchandise to the flea market. My sister has been telling me for many years that she has always wanted me to buy one of the mini vans that were so popular a few years back. But now that all of her children are grown, I’m not so sure a minivan would do the trick for me with my needs for a flea market vehicle. I think that with the family situation the way it is now, I just might be happy with something more like the Toyota Highlander or a Saturn Vue than a mini-van. They both seem like a good family car.

Besides buying a new vehicle I would like to invest in some nice logo mats to use, I think that they would be a nice touch for my customers to stand on while getting my name out. A nice logo canopy to use when outside and in wet weather would be a good choice as well. If I could count on the flea markets inside I would even consider purchasing some trade show carpet, I’ve seen some real nice ones being used out there, but there are no guarentees from what I’ve heard in the flea market business.

Back to the Fold

  By Dr Saxe | December 1, 2011 - 3:54 pm | antiques & collectibles, Associates, business, life, marketing
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One of my partners just got back from a trip out to Arkansas. He’s trying to sell a place he’d just bought a few years back. I tease him a bit about it because he’d figured he was going to settle there, but things didn’t quite turn out the way he expected them to. Now the old boy is back amongst the crew of old, short a few members, but this type of living can make a man old real fast. Especially if you work at it and play, as well as work, in the “Fast Lane”! He’s a good fellow by all accounts. Deals in mostly old ephemera. Movie posters, old signs, dome top beer cans, advertising stuff mostly, but he also branches out like the rest of us just to make a living. No longer pays to specialize.

Get The Phone Already!

  By Dr Saxe | October 19, 2011 - 3:42 pm | antiques & collectibles, Associates, business, life, marketing
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My home phone has been ringing off the hook about some old tobacco bag I’d picked up quite some time back. I showed it a few times and it received absolutely no attention at all, so I believe I’d either put it away somewhere or one of my close friends has it. But it’s been awhile so it’s going to take some hunting around to find the darned thing.

As a matter of fact, I barely remember what it looked like. If the several possible interested parties had not described my own bag to me, I swear I wouldn’t have had the faintest idea of what they were talking about!

But it figures that once you’re lead to believe something isn’t as cool as what you’d originally thought it might be, and you toss it on the back burner, so to speak, everybody suddenly wants it! Usually I’ll have already sold or otherwise disposed of whatever it was that didn’t show any promise, but this is one of those times that I still thought it was cool, even if everybody else ignored it at the time. Now I have to find where I put it and reassess it’s value, then I can put the phone back on the hook.

Candy Cigarettes Now A Thing of the Past

  By Dr Saxe | October 7, 2011 - 10:16 am | antiques & collectibles, business, education, entertainment, internet/computers, marketing, Travel/Auto
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Something that we all grew up with on the shelves with all the other varieties of candies for sale were the candy cigarettes. If you notice you will no longer see these at most locations that offer gum and candy products. But on a rare occasion, at certain places you will see a display of these fake coffin nails, which was the case yesterday for my niece who was on a field trip out in the boonies, out in the country at a museum displaying numerous aging and large cumbersome parade floats, window displays and other larger than life items used in times past, in various locations for advertising and holiday celebrations.

I didn’t even know that this place even existed for heaven’s sake. She came home with a camera full of interesting and colorful pictures, that she emailed me, the last photo being of the counter that displayed many old time candies, including the fake cigarettes that used to be so popular back in the day.