The Rummager's Handbook: Finding, Buying, Cleaning, Fixing, Using, and Selling Secondhand Treasures - Softcover

McClurg, R. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882668943 ISBN 13: 9780882668949

Publisher: Storey Books, 1995

Synopsis

Antiquing as a fun and potentially profitable pastime has never been more popular, and this book offers hundreds of tips and ideas for finding sales and auctions, bargaining, determining value, and taking it home.

About this title

About the Author

You don't have to tell writer R.S. McClurg that one person's trash is another person's treasure! In his book, The Rummager's Handbook, R.S. includes handy hints on finding and ultimately selling used items. R.S., a bargain hunter himself, lives in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.

From the Back Cover

Make your free-time hours more fun and more profitable!

Collecting and selling secondhand merchandise is an entertaining, productive, and money-making activity for thousands of people. With The Rummager's Handbook as your guide, you'll learn from an experienced rummager the techniques and knowledge needed to successfully buy, sell, collect, and recycle secondhand goods found at garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores.

* Bargain easily, effectively, and politely with various types of sellers

* Evaluate the age and worth of everything from collectible glassware and china to dolls, toys, furniture, electrical appliances, and more

* Clean and restore a wide range of goods and surfaces safely and economically

* Store, display, and give new life to used goods in imaginative ways

* Keep track of your treasure-hunt buying and selling with a few clever inventory and record-keeping techniques

* Hold a profitable garage or yard sale with some simple planning, pricing, and displaying tips

Whether you're a treasure hunter or interested in selling the treasures that you already own, The Rummager's Handbook is a storehouse of practical tips and imaginative ideas for collecting and recycling hundreds of common objects.

Reviews

The pop culture and how-to shelves are loaded with guides to grading and identifying collectibles. Now comes McClurg with a guide to all the ancillary arts and crafts of profitably collecting other folks' castoffs, and he provides many an insightful shopping and bargaining tip. Like to dicker? Avoid thrift shops, but see McClurg for a variety of lines to open bargaining elsewhere. McClurg's effort may be most valuable, though, for its clear and comprehensive discourse on caring for, storing, and displaying your treasures; arranging bone china dogs around a fire hydrant^-shaped mustard container is just one of McClurg's imaginative suggestions. The assumption underlying the entire book is that to best sustain a collecting hobby, you should try making it pay. A short bibliography of pertinent resources rounds out the package nicely. Mike Tribby

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882668943
• ISBN 13: 9780882668949
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 160