Reggie's Attic Estates & Antiques

If you are into antiques somewhere along the way you have heard of Schroeder’s. If you haven’t I’m not sure where you have been. Schroeder’s is a general antique publication that has a little bit of anything that has any value what-so-ever. Each section refers to an expert in that field and also gives a brief history of each subject. It is the bible for many in the antique world but as of this year their 29th edition for 2011 is the last of its kind. Collector Books which is the company that publishes the book has quit publishing all price guides all together. They are just selling out current inventory. Their reasoning is due to the mass amount of the information people obtain from the internet they feel that people have stopped buying the books and will just use the internet as their source of information, but is the information found on the internet that reliable? I will be the first to say that the internet gives just enough information to make people very dangerous. You hear of p...

How do you pay for your vacations?  Do you save for months, use your tax refund, have a garage sale?  Have you ever thought about peddling your wares? I have a friend that has been full time in the antique business for over 30 years.  Any vacation or travel trip, he stops and sells items along the way to earn revenue to get him from point A to point B.  Now this does take some experience in knowing what you have to get max prices out of them.  He taught me that every dealer has great items that just don't seem to sell for them but they will sell for other dealers, its just finding the dealers that want these items. We usually plan a vacation around doing a show so we pay for our way there and then do a show on our way back.  But, sometimes we just go somewhere without taking all of the merchandise.  When we do this I put together a bag of goodies to peddle along the way.  Basically I ask antique shops we go into if they are buying, I sho...

When we bought Gypzie Roadz we knew that with her age there would always something to work on. We knew break downs would happen because we’d had flat tires with other vehicles and been sitting on the side of the road before. We had had a successful show at Louisville over Memorial Day weekend. We managed to get torn down and out of the show in record time and were on the road by 6 pm headed home. I had just fixed Courtney dinner and I noticed Donnie was pulling off the road. Donnie had felt something hit is foot and wasn‘t sure what it was. After getting out and assessing the situation he first thought the radiator hose had blown because it was so miserable hot outside. After standing in the heat letting everything try to cool down he determined one of the belts had broken. Thank goodness the previous owner had forsight and there were spares in storage. The problem was the heat. Poor Donnie was trying to work on a vehicle while I sat inside the RV trying to make a 3 year old hap...