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It’s What’s On the Outside That Counts: A Brief Lesson in Superficiality and the Vintage Marketplace

Former neighbors and good friends in Nashville, the Maxwell Beddingtons, had a maxim that comes in very handy when a collector has plenty of ambition but limited time. (I trust Lady B will forgive my French.) It goes like this: “If you see clothes, the yard sale blows.” This is true in the extreme. Excepting…

September 22, 2013 in Antique Dealers, Collecting, Curiosity Shops.

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