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Message:: [QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 2271041, member: 602"]Back in, I think...as I remember, the late fifties & early sixties, my Mom would buy an old house now and then, and of course we would wind up cleaning them out....Mom knew they had the contents "as they stood" (not always in great shape as old houses were always broken into and damaged!) and she was a pretty good antique collector, and prices back then had not yet inflated....so she got some pretty good deals!!!  After she 'rescued & collected' what she wanted, she'd save some to keep, then sell in her "barn sales", the really bad stuff would go to the town dump, and she'd sell the cleaned up house for a profit.....she was, I have to say, a pretty smart cookie!!  In 2016 I thought I'd be selling the hankies, but at my age, just don't have the energy to deal with all I read about the online biggies such as 'ebay, etsy, ruby lane, etc.'.....so might just let either the B.I. Historical Society have most of them (I DO have a couple of faves!!) or let a couple of nieces deal with them....and other 'stuff'!!!!  THANK YOU SO MUCH for your VALUED OPINION!!!  My Favorite 1 or 2 were in the other link!![/QUOTE]