Comments on: John Steinbeck on Antiques http://www.inherited-values.com/2010/02/john-steinbeck-on-antiques/ Antiques & Vintage Collectibles, NOT By The Book Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:52:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Cliff Aliperti http://www.inherited-values.com/2010/02/john-steinbeck-on-antiques/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Cliff Aliperti Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:51:09 +0000 http://www.inherited-values.com/?p=872#comment-401 Yeah, I liked that one too, Deanna. The whole passage just really drips with sarcasm, but at the same time if you leave that out what he writes is mostly true today! Yeah, I liked that one too, Deanna. The whole passage just really drips with sarcasm, but at the same time if you leave that out what he writes is mostly true today!

]]> By: Cliff Aliperti http://www.inherited-values.com/2010/02/john-steinbeck-on-antiques/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Cliff Aliperti Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.inherited-values.com/?p=872#comment-400 Thanks, Vince. That's how I came in the door--I was 15 and have been going strong since, but I definitely said AHA more than once back then! Thanks, Vince. That’s how I came in the door–I was 15 and have been going strong since, but I definitely said AHA more than once back then!

]]> By: vince jelenic http://www.inherited-values.com/2010/02/john-steinbeck-on-antiques/comment-page-1/#comment-396 vince jelenic Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:43:12 +0000 http://www.inherited-values.com/?p=872#comment-396 Hey, another winner. Cliff, the line about "my stuff’s better than this guy’s stuff! This is how dealers are born!" is priceless, it really is. You managed to pinpoint that AHA moment in utmost clarity. I'd hazard a guess that it's a tossup between having too much stuff, and your AHA moment which creates 90% of today's current dealers. Priceless :-) cheers. Vince. Hey, another winner.
Cliff, the line about “my stuff’s better than this guy’s stuff! This is how dealers are born!” is priceless, it really is.

You managed to pinpoint that AHA moment in utmost clarity. I’d hazard a guess that it’s a tossup between having too much stuff, and your AHA moment which creates 90% of today’s current dealers.
Priceless :-)
cheers.
Vince.

]]> By: Deanna http://www.inherited-values.com/2010/02/john-steinbeck-on-antiques/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Deanna Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:19:22 +0000 http://www.inherited-values.com/?p=872#comment-384 Oh, how delightful! I wonder what Steinbeck would have thought of eBay? Or, far more likely to amaze & upset, blogging?! What you and Steinbeck discuss here are the duality of the collecting coin, as it were. And the very thing which captivates about shows like Roadshow and American Pickers. This part, however, makes me giggle over & over again: "I believe the population of the thirteen colonies was less than four million souls, and every one of them must have been frantically turning out tables, chairs, china, glass, candle molds, and oddly shaped bits of iron, copper, and brass for future sale to twentieth-century tourists." Oh, how delightful!

I wonder what Steinbeck would have thought of eBay? Or, far more likely to amaze & upset, blogging?!

What you and Steinbeck discuss here are the duality of the collecting coin, as it were. And the very thing which captivates about shows like Roadshow and American Pickers.

This part, however, makes me giggle over & over again: “I believe the population of the thirteen colonies was less than four million souls, and every one of them must have been frantically turning out tables, chairs, china, glass, candle molds, and oddly shaped bits of iron, copper, and brass for future sale to twentieth-century tourists.”

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