Memoirs of an Antique/Junk Dealer
By Frank Hicks
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About this ebook
After working 30 years in the business of antiques and collectibles, i'm still dazzled by the prices paid for items many people consider junk - half a million dollars for a beat-up side table, six hundred thousand dollars for an old tobacco hockey card, one million dollars for a comic book.
Every year, millions of dollars are being lost and made by people selling and buying at garage sales, moving sales, estate sales, flea markets, thrift shops and antique shops throughout North America.
Every year, a small fortune in historical artifacts and collectibles end up in trash cans and landfills.
I have spent close to three decades buying and selling other people's cast-offs.
THIS BOOK TELLS MY STORY.
Frank Hicks
Born in Belfast Ireland and moved to Canada in 1948. I Left my position as a financial controller to enter the antique and collectible field in 1982 and have never looked back. I'm on the board of directors of two Non-profit organizations and am presently curator of a small town museum.
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