Reggie's Attic Estates & Antiques

Since gold has gone over $1300 per ounce and everybody has decided to start buying, I feel people should be better informed of what they are doing when they go to sell their precious metals. As a gold buyer prior to this rush, I am tired of hearing stories of people blindly selling their gold for next to nothing and buyers taking advantage of people’s lack of knowledge. This results in the seller loosing money when they could have had substantially more. As a result I decided its time to enlighten you, the seller. When you first decide you are going to sell your precious metals. Go through and divide up what you have by gold karat weight, sterling, or platinum. If you have things that you are not sure of the marks etc. put those in a separate bag for testing that can be done by a reputable dealer. If you have a scale weigh them out so you have an idea of what your gold weighs. Grant it that your scale may be off but a precious metal dealer will use scales that have been calibrated f

We took the last couple of days as personal days. Something we haven't done in almost two years. We found ourselves at the KOA in Daytona Beach and made the days all about Courtney. She had never been to the beach before but she was obiviously born a beach bum. Armed with buckets she was ready. 70 degree weather and windy, but we couldn't get her out of the water. The sound of her feet slapping against the sand as she ran back and forth to the water. Little fingers would dig and dig. We found a little park at the beach that had a fountain. We took her to a nice lunch on the boardwalk. And afterwards we took a stroll along the beach. It was just a wonderful two days! This blog is dedicated to the memory of my husband's uncle that passed away this week. I hope that this helps bring a smile to our family during a very sad time.

I know most people have a bucket list of sorts as do I. Although mine is a list of antique shows I want to do, this past weekend I got to mark one of the off my list. Renninger's Mt. Dora Florida Extravaganza. To sum it up, the weather was wonderful, the Renninger's staff was probably the best show staff I have ever worked with, every dealer was friendly. Sales were good despite the regulars complaining about the little traffic. However, if the opportunity will present itself I will definately be back. I know it was two if not three times larger than the show I do in Springfield, Ohio. There were people there from just about every state and several countries. I sold items to people from England, France, Spain, Brazil, China, and Australia to name a few. My biggest complaint was our site location. This was due to a lack of knowledge about the layout of the land etc from never being there before. Our setup required us to be on a very sloped hill side. I felt like the

As we are making our journey to Mt. Dora Florida we have taken three days to “tiquie shoppiing” our way there. Courtney has dubbed what we are doing as “Tiquie Shopping”. The big myth is you can’t buy items for resale in an antique shop or mall, but that is where people have been missing out. Keep in mind every dealer doesn’t know everything. Sometimes the best finds are in an antique shop. You can find information about shops in many different antique publications across the country. In Florida stop and pick up your free “The Florida Antique and Collectible Peddler” guide that covers most every area in Florida. I really found mine extremely helpful. We decided to focus on a small area of Florida located about two hours outside of Mt. Dora. We started our shopping with probably my favorite find of the trip so far. We stopped at this great shop called Valentino’s located in Green Cove Springs. It was very organized with very nice quality antiques. He had this darling piec

After a long exhausting day of setting up my show spaces, I'm ready for a great weekend of sales here at the Scott's Show in Atlanta. We are among the 2500 vendors setup here this weekend. If you are in the area we are set up in the South Building Section J-3 spaces 5908 and 5909 and would love for you to stop by! Everytime I come to the Atlanta show I always see wonderful French antiques, stacks of furniture, sterling galour, jewelry to die for, modern furniture that is simply fabulous. I could go on and on. I've already seen lots of wonderful things. A dealer has this Louis Vutton Steamer Trunk that is probably my favorite thing I've seen so far. It is priced at $8500 talk about traveling in style! WOW! But come prepared to spend a day if not the weekend. You can park and take a shuttle between the north and south buildings for your convience. You will also find outdoor vendors. There is something for everyone!

As we started our 2nd week of our 4 week trip of traveling to do shows we decided to make today a scenic route day. We don’t have to be in Atlanta until Thursday around 10am. So we thought we would enjoy stopping at thrift stores and antique shops only found on back roads. Early in our day while in Tennessee following their fine back roads we came upon a curve in the road that read “Low Clearance 10 ½ ft” Gypzie happens to be a tad bit tall topping out at 11’. Fortunately we found a shortened area to pull into just prior to the low clearance. After numerous times of backing and pulling up, coming close to ditches and the creek, me trying to stop and direct speeding traffic, we finally succeeded at getting our almost 40 feet turned around. Thank goodness Donnie can back that trailer. Key thought for the day, always remember what you are lugging behind you takes more space than you think! Once we got back on our journey we were able to ventured through several nice shops. I foun