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Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on June 30, 2009 at 10:43am

This months show at the Allegan Antique show,
the weather leading up to this last weekends show was HOT!! for Michigan standards we were up to 99 degrees with a 70 degree dew point ( muggy) like Florida.
Saturday was set up day we were still in the low 90's & humid, so the set up was slow not to get heat exhaustion, not much dealer traffic moving around, only the very hungry for merch.
had a storm front come thru between 10 pm & 5 am rain and wind thunder & lightning some awnings down, and some blow over but not to bad, and still was muggy till about 10:30 tho the show opened up at 7:00 after 10:30 the cold front finally went thru, then the weather got much nicer to do work in, temp got up to low-mid 80's and partly sunny, good crowd, show over at 4:30 then we get to load up what did not sell or what we bought and go home, at least this show, is right at home not like some of the other shows we used to do that were 4-5 hours drive to get home
Bring on July show next
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on June 8, 2009 at 8:02pm

This months show The Allegan Antique show. the weather could not have been better, sunshine, about mid 70's lots of people good show.

Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on April 27, 2009 at 10:15am

The one thing so far I had forgot to add to the list of things about cost's of the antique dealers doing shows, is the cost of rain damaged goods from inclemmit weather, and a good rain coat, as we just got thru doing the first show at the Allegan antique market, an outside fairgrounds type of show, and we had about 3-4 inches of rain and winds up to 60 mph lots of the easy up awnings were all down in piles, stuff blew over, and every one wet and dishearted, then the sun came out for packing up and it got hot and humid, yuck!, so roll on next month's shows.
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on April 16, 2009 at 9:42am

Robert/ Rescuelife products,
the first thing for a uniform info sheet

would be the cost,

and whom and where from purchased (dealer or auction or private party's name, address, city, state, & phone number if possible) attach a copy of the invoice & check or credit card copy, so if it is stolen they police can go back on to the person you purchased it from

date acquired

if their is a number or identification number given it by a collectors group, serial number ( like on electronics, radios, guns) DO NOT PUT your own numbers into the item as it will lessen the value if you want to label it put on a removable label or string tag on the item.

a picture or two,

Notes on any repairs or damage that might help in id'ing the item if stolen or lost, photos of this would be good,

providonce any info on its history ( previous owners etc)

Its Dimensions

a note of any thing that you have, or had done to it since you have acquired the item.

most collectors would know most of these items off the top of there head, but their family's posibly would not have the foggyest idea what the item was other than ("X")

This would be a good start.
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by rescuelifeproducts on April 16, 2009 at 2:42am

Unifrom Information Worksheet For Antiques

The serious antique collector should develope a worksheet for recording information.
What are the most important fields that should be allow for in such a document?
What should these fields establish for the reader?
What data would you consider optional on such a form?

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on April 15, 2009 at 5:38pm

To some of the collectors. or causal shoppers.
some of the costs of doing shows,
gas, most dealers drive these wonderful gas gusslers my rig gets 9 miles to a gal when I baby it, and on most weekends I drive 400-500 miles then I drive this van as a daily driver also. so last year a weekend of gas was $250 average.

motel costs $50-100 a night

food, I usually do not count food cause I have to eat, but this is resturant food. for the weekend including a couple of pops over each day $50-100 per person

market space, this can go from $25. to $1000 per space, most of the markets we do cost between $75. to $135. per space and we use 2 spaces $ 195 average for us

and if you have any of the porters or helpers to help set up and tear down your booth, tables, awinings, load vehicle $20-$100.

time involved with just the show, I load truck on Friday, drive to the show saturday morning, set up for the show, get supper and go to motel for the night, get up at 5:00 am to get breakfast, and drive to show and get uncovered by 7:00 opening of the gates, work the show for the day, we usually are under contract to not start packing up till usually 4:00 pm some do not follow their contracts, then we get to load up what we did not sell or bought that weekend, and drive home, usually on a normal show weekend I get home between 11:00-1:00 in the morning, then get up and be at our retail store for opening at 9:00 am and then unload the trunk from the weekend, and ship anything that needs to be shipped out from the weekend,then in 4 days do it all over again, along with getting in fresh stuff to sell, fix it up mow the grass and such,
Also I have to hire a person to work in my store while I am at a show $75-$100

So the cost for doing a show at these distances for us is about $800. + the cost of the product that we sell at the shows not counting our time.
and not thinking of doing these shows 800-1200 miles away

Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on April 2, 2009 at 10:42am

Laura, I agree with twice around books, a flea bite is a miniscule (tiny) nip on a corner of a cut or rim. it is like if your in a hurry you would not see this or if it was dirty, you would not see this, tho if you took your time you would notice it.
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium
http://www.b-c-e.biz

Comment by C. Dianne Zweig Editor's Desk on March 26, 2009 at 7:45pm

Thanks Liz....Dianne

Comment by Liz Bryman on March 26, 2009 at 5:32pm

Hi, all New Fans of Antiques,

Just because we're new at something doesn't mean that we can't jump in with both feet. We'll get wet, of course, but that's the idea, isn't it?

The most fun we can have is when we understand the antiques collector and dealer language (lingo!).

So I invite more of you to ask fleabite questions, it's a really good start. When we have more words identified perhaps IAO might let us put them up on a special Antiques Words With Explanation page as an ongoing dictionary?

In the meantime, here are a few definitions meant to be humorous. They relate to antique and vintage jewelry. Enjoy!

The Language of Costume Jewelry: Often Used Terms

And, I wish to add: There is a whole series of these articles on how to recognize the different eras and styles, quality or not, in costume jewelry to which I may publish the links a few at the time.

In the meantime, you are invited to post your questions here. Whatever I happen to know something about I'll try to answer.

Liz

Comment by Laura on March 5, 2009 at 1:58pm

Yes, that does help me. Thank you so much Barbara for your help and quick response. I am impressed!

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