Industrial antiques Road Trip, USA and Poland!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Two antuique road trips in one video, we drove across Poland for an antique coat rack and visit Industrial Artifacts in Dekalb Illinois back in the good ol USA. Here we see absolutely premium high end vintage and antique items. This inspiration for me one day in the future when my industrial building renovation is complete.
Etsy link to Industrial artifacts.
www.etsy.com/s...
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I’m glad I live two states away from Industrial Artifacts. I’d be there constantly spending all my money.
cool, maybe I am on to something! thanks!
Love the back and forth between Poland and the US, cool stuff
trying to experiment with making the videos more watchable. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Thanks, trying to improve. Someday I hope to get the hang of this whole UA-cam thing.
sorry my comment got deleted and I tried to write it again. but then it showed back up. LOL>
What I love about your channel is that you weigh our suggestions along with your entrepreneurial judgement of filter those suggestion.
Case in point: showing us the other side of your business.
I’m sure it will bring you more fans!
Thank you. I am hoping to keep getting better and better at this UA-cam thing.
They remind me of like the old theaters and where you would check your coats in and your top hats or you know your shawl the woman Shaw and they would give you a number of where it was hanging from
yeah they seem like that or like maybe a bistro or something.
I enjoyed this video immensely! Thank you for in including us in your travels! I LOVE coat racks! They are beautiful!!
Glad you like them! Thanks again for all the comments.
The way you justify filming at the purchase location is for damage inspection of the item prior to purchase. Digging this format.
I think the antique business is neat and would do a hybrid of his shop and eventually your shop. If you do consignment, you get your brand at name recognition at his place which will draw people to your place. Just make it a condition that your branding goes on the listing (brought to you by cold war mercantile) That way you can travel back and forth, not mind your own store, not have to worry about shipping and draw income and operating capital through his. Also provides renovation funds.
I also think you need to find a revenue generator for your property. Maybe a swap meet in the grass area, something exterior. Just get some porta-johns.
wow a lot of great food for thought. And sometime in the next 60s days I am posting a video totally about the plan to do just that with the revenue. but I have such a backlog of vids to get out.
Woohoo Chris!
I liked this video and I like the fact that you included the unforeseen delay in getting to your destination in Poland as well as footage from the place in Dekalb. As someone who has sourced antiques/collectibles from Europe on a much smaller scale, I can honestly say that it's much harder, more expensive (all things considered) and more time consuming to do it than most people realize. Your time and efforts to source this stuff are part of the acquisition price, so one thing I would advise is to stop disclosing what you pay for things on the other end. That's nobody's business but yours. If people want what you're selling, and they definitely will as you are getting quality stuff, they will be willing to pay the price you set without balking. If you disclose what you actually pay for things it can and will become part of the negotiation of the asking price.
The good thing I have going for me. Is that I live over here part time, so I can casually look for stuff and find good deals and jump on them. When someone comes over on a purposed trip to buy they either don't get the same great finds, or the pay the comfort price of going to dealers who don't want to leave money on the table but can provide cool stuff. If there was a good way to pre-sell stuff before I even bought it that would be the golden goose. I was thinking that sharing the price was informational and entertaining. the stuff represents a small percentage of what I will be sending. But I do like to focus on stuff that really excites me.
Great video Chris ❤❤😊😊
Thank you Miss Sharon!
Cool coat racks!! I could see them with string lights & flowers or greenery on them for a patio or wedding. Enjoy Poland , safe travels!!
Seem like cafe decor for sure.
Wow!! Great to find a mentor to learn from and hone your knowledge on how to maximize your business!! Very interesting pieces as well!!
that is one thing I am grateful for. Mentoring has really blessed me since I started this channel.
I love the vision of turning part of the building into a big antique mall/store. Make it an antique destination in the Midwest. Have separate area in the building for your imports.
I even thought once it is full of gorgeous antiques it could be a wedding rental venue surrounded by the stuff. But first all the trash has to go. LOL.
Cool video, nice unusual pieces.. Years ago, a close dealer friend of mine would cross the pond regularly and buy whole containers worth of industrial antiques for resale here in California. I was "picking" here in California in the 70's through the 90's when things were more plentiful. Good times, good memories digging through old
dilapidated barns and other random places before we all had a video camera in our pocket.
I think that is a cool lifestyle. I am working to get there, I need to build it slowly because it takes a huge amount of capital to fill a whole container, especially with the costs of a building renovation.
love the coat racks...
Me too! thanks for the comment!
Very cool coat rack Chris! The industrial antique place was very cool as well and they had a lot of great stuff there, I bet your brain was in overload with ideas…lol
For me it was just cool to see a business like that thriving. It gave me hope.
@@brickandsole that’s funny because I’ve never had any doubts about you succeeding! You are doing it man! Keep it up!
I loved the zither in the intro. Also I think that building has more plans for you than you do for it, which is very cool. If you watch “So You Think You Can Dance”, it looks like the inside of your building, and a good vision of what yours could look like.
oh man, now I am going to have to look that up. One more thing for the "to do" list. =)
@@brickandsole I don't really dig that show, I just have it one because I'm waiting for the news, but if you see the set, it looks just like your building on the inside if it was finished. You might get some ideas.
Us fellow flatlanders all think of DeKalb as the edge of Chicago metro edge!!
Until I got there I thought it was a suburb, but we drove through some fields to get there. OUTER edge.
Cyd in MD. Excellent video. You really took us on a fun ride geographically, geopolitically with antique eye candy to boot. Your new friend's shop is really well curated. Truly something to aspire to. However, yours will be something truly original with your imports. Re: good thumbnails. I often find thumbnails very misleading and when I do I never go back to that UA-camr.
Yeah, thank you! Mine will be a little bit different, and certainly priced lower but I think I will have really unique stuff once I am able to get it going. NOBODY likes clickbait thumbnails and titles.
Love the hat and coat check racks! 20s -30s, my guess. Seen that style of hook from the 20s. Love the Dekalb shop- great advice. When you choose to do something that only a few do, you are going to have to make your own rules, too. Remember if you want your dreams to fly, you can't keep them tied to the ground! Sorry about being stuck on the highway for so long. Stay safe there. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Tete, hope all is going well. I almost put a video about your racks in this one but decided to save it for another video.
The coat rack looks like, when you check your coat at the door in a restaurant, etc...
I thought so too. Like a restaurant or pub.
We use the same size brass tags in our powerplant to label valves. The large industrial machines I've seen used in bars. Google images of the Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis South Dakota as an example, they really did a great job. The Boars Nest just south of Lead South Dakota is another industrial themed bar.
Okay I will do that. I can already imagine. These kind of items are perfect for places like that.
Wow I love it! Looks like it should be in. French bistro. The other rack looks mid century mod a bit. I think you did great with it. The Brown will be wonderful for your headquarters, shipping receiving and hopefully a brick and mortar. In good ole Charleston!
Thanks, they do have that French/belgian antique look don't they?
Stained glass is beautiful from store in IL. Turn car off. Is he a horder? lol.
I would like to learn about stained glass it has crossover appeal for me.
You definitely need to level up with the buying of the best things you can get, though it also means a lot more $$$/zł! That website you showed looked amazing and it would be easy to replicate in the factory, it's all about presentation! There are antique sellers near me that bought a lot of industrial baskets and hospital furniture from eastern europe, but it's not selling well as the market here is saturated, but I still see it for crazy prices on FB marketplace and that's not the place to sell it for high prices!
Also, it looks like you have a cosy life in Poland, and then you gone and bought the factory!!
yeah, I have seen a bunch of businesses try to take shortcuts and buy in bulk and in no time they are favoring bulk over uniqueness. I hope to focus on one of a kind, and super unique stuff. Might not be the best model but it will keep me interested and satisfied. I just like old stuff. Yeah, I went and done it. But hopefully it will all come together. If not, at least I won't have regrets.
Tags are brass...brass goes brown with age and exposure to air. Are you going to get the missing hook fabricated and replaced or was I imagining one was missing? Shelf/coat rack is cool, good MCM sort of look, well worth the $20, good for $75 retail maybe?
75 would be a great deal. wouldn't be 4x but on small items like that that I think it would be a good sale!
I really try to enjoy your videos, but your camera work is too frenetic. I like where you are going with your thoughts and goals. I have been a fan of Industrial Artifacts for quite a while. He has an incredible eye for the unusual and unique quality pieces. Think about slowing your camera movement down to a more relaxed pace. You have it going on, just refine your video process. I know I am being a critic, but I do so in trying to let you understand what the viewer is seeing so you can improve. Sorry if you take this negatively. I do not mean it that way.
No, totally well received, I have made some progress in that area if you look at my early videos they were way worse. I wish I had someone to film me that would remove almost all of it. I need to be just be more conscious of it, and to your point you are not the first to mention it. So I'll keep it in mind. Cheers.
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Do you consider yourself a worldwide seller?
actually I am not a seller yet as I haven't officially sold my first antique, but I wouldn't be against it as part of the future model. Right now I just need to get my first container full of stuff and get it delivered to the building. that will be a glorious day!
How tall are the coat racks?
They are exactly 6 feet tall to the highest point.
@@brickandsole thank you another great find
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Well Hello again!
the shop uses bizarre prices !
They are high, but I noticed that they have almost 2k sales which is 40 items a month. Makes you wonder right?
over 4 years I mean. that would be 40 sales a month.
I thought the Polish government had it all figured out with all their restrictions on immigration?
Poland does have a strict stance on immigration, but this is about grain imports and the rules the EU is imposing on farmers.
@@brickandsole so foreign grain is ok, foreign people not so much
Talking from experience, stay away from consignment. It eats your profit. You have to get the item for free, for consignment to pay.
I think the one in my home town is as much as 50% which is horrible.
I hope you also learned, not to give the cool stuff you already have at the factory away?
I have a bunch of stuff there that fits really well with the stuff I want to deal in. I have separated it from the other stuff. And who knows I find more stuff there all the time.
So are you trying to get some knowledge on how to also staged things
I am not experienced at it.
I am not experienced at it.
it a form of arbitrage!
Mine or his? but yeah that is what it boils down to. But with custom items.
Just checked out industrial artifact, sorry but they are totally insane with their prices. Anyone that pays their prices are on drugs! Just buy what you like, cheap, its what I do.
Did you notice how many sales they have in four years? like 2k which is 40 sales a month. So it makes me wonder how they do that? I think we'd all like to get those prices! But yeah, I will be just north of reasonable on mine. haha.