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Back to the Grind...

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After not doing shows or estate sales for almost a month, I am up and ready to start a busy next 6 weeks and hopefully beyond.  We are starting with setup today at the Scott's Antiques Market in Columbus, OH.  If you are in the area it is a great show to shop.  If you get a chance to stop by and say hello we are in spaces 2304 & 2305.  We are loaded for bear with some great merchandise I found in my inventory stash.  Somethings have been sitting back for a over a year and have finally managed to find their way to my trailer.  (I can do some great digging in my own back room and storage areas if I just stay home long enough).  Then starting on Tuesday we start setting up our first estate sale of the year.  That sale won't be until the first weekend of March but the basement in that house is calling my name.  I will try to post pics of the basement and its progress since I get alot of people, who like myse...

...with love, Clarence

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Years ago, I was hired to liquidate a local estate. The house was absolutely crammed full of everything imaginable. Even the basement was setup like its own separte household with its own kitchen, living room, and bedroom with bathroom. I was told the basement had belonged to the "old maid" sister that lived their till her death. I thought nothing of it and went about my job. My husband and I had spent a little over two weeks in this house digging it out and setting it up. Finally we got to the garage. The garage was so full that you had to move things out into the yard to get anything setup. So we began carring boxes and lining them along the driveway. Once all was out we were able to start setting up. Built into the back wall was a work bench, where we began setting up tools. A tool was dropped and when Donnie bent down to get it he noticed a locked black metal box with the words "C&O" on it. I knew immediately that this was a railroad lock box and there was...