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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cindy Cash, post: 130731, member: 1930&quot;]<font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="color: #660000">&nbsp; &nbsp; I have been around antiques and antique fanatics all my life. My step mother and my mother both loved antiques. My father and step mother&#039;s home was very large and it was packed with antique furniture. Inside each piece were literally thousands of different patterns of fine china. She knew her antiques. She collected limoge, staffordshire, victorian glass and something in every genre. Quilts, linen (she had over 1,000 tablecloths and napkin sets when she passed). I found 13 different patterns of pink roses in limoge china in ONE piece of furniture. Growing up, I never paid a bit of attention to any of these items. At the time of their passing, I was living with my father (they passed 4 months apart) and he had me trying to put patterns together of china, sterling, glassware, linens, quilts, vintage fur coats (racks of them). Her personal consisted of </span></font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="color: #660000">countless jewelry boxes filled with fine and costume jewelry, over 500 pairs of shoes. Over 500 hats. Buttons, figurines, nick-nacks, odds and ends of flatware and on and on. </span></font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="color: #660000">In the process of inheriting so many of these items (even sharing it all with 6 siblings and still enough for the neighborhood) I was inclined to do some research as I had no idea at the time what anything was worth or the history of it all. The furniture all came from castles in Europe. Ornately, hand carved european furniture with cherubs, griffins, lions, etc. Very beautiful items. Then there was my mother. She, too, loved them and we were splitting her items 2 years later. It&#039;s been many years now and since I have researched everything and learned a plethera of information. I rent a space in an antique mall in my hometown and do pretty well. I love the buying as she did and had to start sharing or these things were going to move me right out of my home. I love antiques more and more every day and I never stop learning. I have a collection of antique victorian and edwardian stick pins. Probably about 200 now. My personal passion is fine </span></font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="color: #660000">jewelry but I love it all!! My stepmother had collected about 10 victorian tumblers. I continued to collect them until I found myself with about 60 of them. Trying to let some go. That&#039;s the hardest part. When I buy for my booth, I don&#039;t want to get rid of it. I&#039;m doiing better every day. But the buying is, by far, the most fun for me. I am 57 years old and see no end to my love of antiques. </span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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