Comments on: Unloved Antiques: Those Stacks of Old Books http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/unloved-antiques-old-books Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Fri, 24 May 2013 18:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mike Wilcox http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/unloved-antiques-old-books/comment-page-1#comment-97080 Mike Wilcox Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:46:30 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2502241#comment-97080 Thanks for your thought and kind words. Most of us in the business are "Closet Collectors", often keeping things with little intrinsic value because they move us in some way. Too often value is sold as the "be all and end all", if you love the item that's all that should matter to a collector. Thanks for your thought and kind words. Most of us in the business are “Closet Collectors”, often keeping things with little intrinsic value because they move us in some way. Too often value is sold as the “be all and end all”, if you love the item that’s all that should matter to a collector.

]]> By: Constance Walsh http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/unloved-antiques-old-books/comment-page-1#comment-96787 Constance Walsh Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:50:59 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2502241#comment-96787 "Unloved Antiques" is a catchy title with truth. Yet the higher truth is that these antiques are not loved in the numbers they once were. I prefer to believe that quality vs quantity of appreciators will continue to bring untold pleasure in depth., although many, many treasures find an early grave. I became a dealer in a small-town antiques mall (a book in itself)to justify my love of objects and a compulsion to rescue the beauties that were cracked, chipped, wounded. Is this a projection? Definitely! I've seen things in the dump, where we can't take, that move me as deeply as the sight of abandoned children or dogs moves others to compassion. I'm sure you understand. Thanks so much for this site. “Unloved Antiques” is a catchy title with truth. Yet the higher truth is that these antiques are not loved in the numbers they once were. I prefer to believe that quality vs quantity of appreciators will continue to bring untold pleasure in depth., although many, many treasures find an early grave.

I became a dealer in a small-town antiques mall (a book in itself)to justify my love of objects and a compulsion to rescue the beauties that were cracked, chipped, wounded.
Is this a projection? Definitely! I’ve seen things in the dump, where we can’t take, that move me as deeply as the sight of abandoned children or dogs moves others to compassion. I’m sure you understand.

Thanks so much for this site.

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