What to Look for in Thrift Stores | How I Decide Whether to BUY It or LEAVE It
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- What to look for in thrift stores? It's a common question I get from people who are just beginning their thrifting journey. I actually have a system that was created over the years, and I want to share it with you all.
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This is really useful. Sadly where i live you don’t see the volumes of art you have in the US. I just love looking at the beautiful art and objects you find. Keep at it. Love looking in your shop too. Postage is a jiller for us so far away.
Informative and well presented. Your videos continue to improve. Thanks.
I appreciate that! Thanks Steve
Hello and I just found you on UA-cam here and I really appreciate your videos and look forward to seeing many more and you're very knowledgeable in your hands-on experience in your treasure hunting and appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Thank you and I too am into thrift store shopping each and every day I try to hit the thrift stores looking for those unique and unusual pieces and have come across an array of items to resell so I thank you for your videos for they inspire me and leave me in the right direction of which way to go on whether or not to purchase things and how to better understand the insights on how to move my merchandise better instead of just locally thank you
Great news that you are producing a guide on how what and where to buy and sell.. based on your own experience 👍👏… very much look forward to seeing more about that, Joe…This video was very clear and well set out as a list to help people to focus and stick to their own set of sensible rules… to maximise an online ‘business’ selling thrifted items. People think it’s easy…but…. you point out that it takes much effort and thought in order to be any kind of success!!!….Thank you,Joe…am sure they should watch this…AND LEARN!!!! 👏👏👏👏….Sue (UK)
Thanks so much Sue! I'd love to send you a copy to get your feedback. When it's finished, I will be sure to get your info and send it over. Thanks for watching as always :)
I'm so happy I found your channel. I tried buying art once. And was done with it. You motivated me to try again. I have a video of my first every estate sale and first ever art piece. Video describes it all. But there was a tear in the painting. 😢. Not even sure if I can resell it. I have it hanging on my wall. And you can't tell it is torn. But it is. As you mentioned, if it was torn I wouldn't have bought it. But it was online auction and they didn't show the tears. Any recommendations?
I hate when that happens. It's happened to me multiple times. Unfortunately, there is not much you can do. I usually just make note of the auction house that sold the item, and either avoid buying from their auctions, or specifically asked about any damage be I bid. Most legit auction and downsizing companies disclose things like this, but not all of them. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Do you have a good way to identify signatures? I have a handful of interesting pottery pieces that are signed by the artist, but I can't decipher it. They have a good amount of age, heft, and are incredibly well executed. I can find similar pieces but they are all over the board. So I'm looking for a trusted resource for artist/maker identification. Google lens is crap :)
Ps-i enjoy your videos, obviously, and look forward to some specialized content. I saw your cid in the difference between lithography, etching, etc.
I totally understand your frustration. Signatures on pottery can be so hard to identify. The first thing I try and do is trace how the artist would have signed the piece. If the signature is cursive, pay attention to the intersecting points and note which line was drawn first, and which was drawn over the other (hope that makes sense :)). Then I try to identify each letter, especially ones that I am certain of. This can help to eliminate what the other letters couldn't be. For example, if you know you found a letter "h", you can assume the letter before it is either s, c, g, t, p, a vowel, etc. If the signature is very faint, grab a piece of paper and a pencil and see if you can make a rubbing that makes the signature easier to read. Also, check out themarksproject.org. Hope this helps!