Its important to understand where antiques originate. Many antique buyers generate the error of mis-understanding the process by which antique items are found.

Many collectors and dealers waste valuable measure searching in places where they believe that these items are in grand abundance. But a true knowledge of where antiques originate seems to have eluded many well meaning antique dealers and collectors.

Its elementary Watson!

If you want to find fresh-to-the-market antiques and collectibles, you absolutely need to go where they are in nice abundance, and where they originate!

Antiques do not orginate at auctions, or at flea markets, or at antique shows. Antiques originate in peoples homes. This is a fundamental truth for 99% of all antiques that you will ever see.

Another truth that many people overlook.

The other simple fact is, that most antiques that you are most definately to get a sizeably successful deal on reside in the homes of many people who are older. Young all the people do not, as a general rule have antiques in the abundance that older people do. Why? Because older people came from a generation that saved everything, and you will find that a majority of the measure they have kept it all!

From the 1950s toys in the closet to the old toaster that was just too dazzling to throw away, older folks still have most of everything they ever owned.

Where will you spend your "prime-measure ?"

Knowing these two fundamental truths about where antiques originate, begs a big question. Knowing that antiques originate in peoples homes, and that antiques are most likely to reside older peoples homes, where will you be attempting to spend a majority of your prime time? It tooks me months to understand the following principles.

1. To buy more fresh antiques you have to see more antiques.

2. To see more antiques, you must look at more household accumulations on a consistant basis.

3. To accomplsih this, you simply must get into more peoples homes where the antiques originate.

Knowing and information these principles will put you light years ahead of your competition! Believe me, I understand antique dealers and collectors, and most of them find their antiques through one of only 5 methods. They find them through garage / estate sales, auctions, "goodwill" type stores, flea markets and "pickers".

Knowing and understand the above principles will help you to focus on where you will find the most antiques...in peoples homes. If you want to be incredibly successful, you have to go where the antiques originate. If youre truly serious about finding fresh antiques its instant to focus on that and only that! That focus will take you farther than you ever thought possible!