inspectorgadget
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- Jul 14, 2012
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- All Treasure Hunting
Favorite auction withdraw, no auction last week cause of Christmas & snow cancelled it today. Yup I drove the whole 4.5 miles to my favorite auction this morning at 6:45 am (they usually have this auction on Wednesday but took the 1st off after taking Christmas day off too). Got there & the lot is plowed but not as many people were there, a lot less people but the weather was horrible so I wasn't surprised one bit & I actually figured it would be a buyers market because of the weather (the roads were very bad & lots of people come from very far away). 750-800 people is average attendance at this place BTW.
Tho they didn't have a lot that I'm really into selling except some old carved stone Asian vases (1 was spinach jade) & probably either ivory or bone pieces (several small carved snuff bottles). They sure looked like ivory to me as they were too smooth for bone! But I quickly learned because they can't get enough workers there the auction has been cancelled. The owners wife said not many people called to see if they were gonna be open & was surprised more people had not shown up. I only have to drive less than 5 miles to this place but many drive 50 miles or more so I'm sure there were some very upset people finding out they made that drive for nothing. I didn't know it but about half their workers come from Fort Wayne (which is quite far from Indy), Muncie (45 mins to an hour from Indy), & Marion Indiana (about 1:15 away) all of those places are north of Indy & had even worse weather. So the dream of a great buyers market was flushed down the drain & I have to wait another week to make some purchases at my favorite place!
I attended auctions on the 1st but they were packed & I made 1 whole purchase, it was something to keep not to sell & I got a very reasonable deal on it considering how busy the place was.
Tho they didn't have a lot that I'm really into selling except some old carved stone Asian vases (1 was spinach jade) & probably either ivory or bone pieces (several small carved snuff bottles). They sure looked like ivory to me as they were too smooth for bone! But I quickly learned because they can't get enough workers there the auction has been cancelled. The owners wife said not many people called to see if they were gonna be open & was surprised more people had not shown up. I only have to drive less than 5 miles to this place but many drive 50 miles or more so I'm sure there were some very upset people finding out they made that drive for nothing. I didn't know it but about half their workers come from Fort Wayne (which is quite far from Indy), Muncie (45 mins to an hour from Indy), & Marion Indiana (about 1:15 away) all of those places are north of Indy & had even worse weather. So the dream of a great buyers market was flushed down the drain & I have to wait another week to make some purchases at my favorite place!
I attended auctions on the 1st but they were packed & I made 1 whole purchase, it was something to keep not to sell & I got a very reasonable deal on it considering how busy the place was.
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