y interview from Friday, June 30th re Wedgewood Mary Furness, st. Charlewhen I turned 30 Is tarted to become intersted in older things, I felt that I was getting older so within a span of 10 yearsI quit my accountant job and now I sell antiques, we sold our modern house and our mdoern furniture qw and nwo we live in an antique house with antique furnitures. husband in polyester division of cargyle, does traveling sales work I couldn't do mya ntique business without /wayne, he works at the store almost every weekend, he refinishes fgurniture, and he has his own colelctions too, Hopalong Cassidy and guns *he has more toys now than he ever did when he was a kid started ppeper box guns, rotating barrles shoot cannon balls, hard ot come by. wedgewood, I had no idea when I started jsust how vast it is been in business since mid 1700s theyve made practivally every kind of dinner ware and stone ware. very easy to tell old from new, all amrked, time intervals how to date it, most of the modern things have the sexact date on it love of antiques started to coloelct before I gave up my job we started out by selling at flea markets because we wanted to amke sure that we relaly like it I colelcted wefgewood, sold things my friend colelcted modern wedgewood my brotherin law in antqiues and he talked us into going to Dunnings auction. they had a peice large of old wedgewood, I bought it, alter I found it was a large cheeskeeper, bottom wedgewood, top Adams, $50, not a good peice really, colelcting one thing elads to another, to get a peiced of what you want at an ancution, you have to buy a whole box, and then you ahve to sell the other things at flea market for a year, started to amke some money, my huysbands job he started to trvel, so I quit my 9-5 job,went on acntiqeuing journeys, life of atraveling salesman not much fun afterbought antique home 2 eyars ago, started buyting antique furniture to dislplay, antique furniture in a rasied ranch house is overpwoering, so it ran us out of it, so we had to get a bigger house, really lucky, a contractor who had redone it, all fo furnishing we got thru being in the antique business I like it better than accounting, I would never go back, this si what I like best lucky to do what I like best you will enver get rich in antiques, no security for sure, you have to relaly love itncome, like social security a little extra money, you would find it difficult to live on it alone palce in Antique 2, St. Charles, still go to some shows to visit and buy, I don't sell any other palce, a lot of time peopel come into stores would with things to sell wd of mouth,theyt ell their friends, my motehr is retired and she has a lot of elderly friends, estate sales and auctions had to teach myself books a rstarted out a real purist I liked a really Vcitorian, to really amke it in the business yopu have to know something about modern glassware and colelctibles, because there is a big market there. tosy from the 50s diversify Is tarted out with high aspirations reputation for antyhing aprticular, large selection of bELLEEK flow blue, oak and victorian furniture, glassware.turn over afast, it does selldy to anotehr regular antiques doing well, or there wouldn't be so many fo them jj weve made 2 trips ot England, 2 trips there you find it in strange palces, a better antiques show a really nice peice at the Kane C. flea market, word gets around and dealers have friends and they will let you know I relaly like the wedgewood majelica, horribly ungly, it has to grow on you they amke so many different kids of ware, smart thing would be to specialize in one ware I like it because it dates back so far and it was always such good quality kmake bone china, nice dinnerware sets most known for the jasper ware all godo china very high bone china very good, very expensive jkjjjjj one set of wegewood china, I got it at market 1 when it opened, creamware, nice, can put it in the dishwasher most antique dealers are just colelctors who have to make a living occasionally a few people do it as a business, like the market set up, lica 3 eltter mark, 1860-1890st charles is as good as anywhere on clelctibles people whore meber it form the fifties have money, they want to buy things they remember, but when they sell it when they are 70, the bottom will ahve fallen out, stuff now looks so junky, gi joes, batman, interseting, colelctibles msutache cups when you clean something you break it pattern glass, cord and tasssel QUDRUPLE PLATE loses it silver easily sometimes it comes out looking like chrome alllwedgewood wedgewood only mark mid 1800s creamware creamy color, still make soemthing similar in dinner ware when it says made in england, 20th century ma$ majelica has to grow on you decoratec cream ware large giner jar, or vase teapot 1820s 1850-18 majelica lead glaze, so now not used butter disch flow blue crewel ware mid 1800s jasper ware type of material clay coat it with colors most well corations put on afterwards certain kinds of clay, molded that is how you can tell, lots of toher made jasper, germans and Jaepanes, modled in, you can put your finger in adn feel the mold. made main piece and colored it and then added figures pitcher cracker jar sugar and creamer hair reciever dresser tray apotehtcary small mortar chess peice bought in Ebngland, very ealry one late 1700s. cxheese keepers doesn't match, top probably adams, he sued to work for wedgewood. good quality but don't match bowl, plates in kitchen much is out there if people decide to colelct, there is a lot out there that is why you should limit yourself to one field like jasper, or majelica or creamware black basalt, looks a lot like jasper, don't believe they make it anymore 1780 real wedgewood you may be able to get a bargainclay anturally that color wall plaques real early late 1700s oldest piece, 1874 book, candle holder is the oldest piece she has pcitured in book, 1770? perfect mate is damaged decorated basalt, you can tell difference between old and new, once you have seen it make a tasnfer, allw edgewood is marked make a transfer. caneware style candlesticks vases, not made now. bring back stuff occasionally to spur sales drab ware, clay also lots of it from time of aMER REVOLUTION WEDGewood waws a freind of Geroge washington 3 letter mark, 1860s unusaul scene, $325.00 on it, cookie jar