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<p>[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 2517965, member: 1262"]Adding to this a bit:</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was growing up in small town Ohio there was an antique dealer who happened to also have his auctioneering license and alternated between our semi-rural area and Chicago, spending approximately 80% of his time in Ohio and the other 20% in the big city. He attended a lot of the estate auctions in our town and also had a small storefront there for buying estates. He had a good eye and purchased a lot of the more high end antiques and furniture. Apparently he had two very large auctions in Chicago each year where he sold the vast majority of what he had purchased in our area and did very well for himself since he was a showman and created long anticipated "event" auctions in Chicago that were well attended and realized top dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 2517965, member: 1262"]Adding to this a bit: When I was growing up in small town Ohio there was an antique dealer who happened to also have his auctioneering license and alternated between our semi-rural area and Chicago, spending approximately 80% of his time in Ohio and the other 20% in the big city. He attended a lot of the estate auctions in our town and also had a small storefront there for buying estates. He had a good eye and purchased a lot of the more high end antiques and furniture. Apparently he had two very large auctions in Chicago each year where he sold the vast majority of what he had purchased in our area and did very well for himself since he was a showman and created long anticipated "event" auctions in Chicago that were well attended and realized top dollar.[/QUOTE]
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