Collecting Dust: Being a Collection of Essays, Sketches, Stories, Spoofs, Gags, Jocosities, and Nonsense about the World of A
by Scott Wood; Steph RamsayFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Penny Dog Press
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Summary
A collection of comic essays, sketches, and spoofs about antiques and collectibles, Collecting Dust is the funniest book ever written about the world of collectors, dealers, auctions, flea markets, yard sales, and the romantic allure of discount treasure hunting. More amusing than a Louis XVI mahogany commode (and easier to move), the book is a bazaar filled with with winners, keepers, and treaures. Collect this book! Book jacket.
Author Biography
Scott Wood was born in Washington D.C. and, like a character in the book, whom he does not resemble in the slightest, was an Army brat. He survived a rudimentary public education, doing well only in Daydreaming. Over the years, he has held all kinds of jobs, briefly. As a young adult, he stumbled in and then right back out of the family antiques business. Although inept at buying, appraising, and dealing, he did make notes. Now, in a desperate attempt to avoid work, he has used those notes to produce this book. Scott Wood lives on the move with his wife, three children, and countless pets.
Table of Contents
| The Trade | |
| An Antiques and Collectibles Primer | p. 1 |
| Trade Talk | p. 6 |
| Highlights of the History of Antiques and Collectibles | p. 13 |
| The Survey | p. 17 |
| The Life Cycle of an Antique | p. 20 |
| A Little Learning (being a very dangerous thing) | p. 24 |
| Fantasy Forum | p. 28 |
| Q and A | p. 32 |
| Collecting Laughs | p. 39 |
| Live at the Auction | p. 44 |
| Smalls | p. 48 |
| A Tale of Two Trunks | p. 56 |
| Collecting Dust | p. 63 |
| Collect this...and this...and this...and this...and this... | |
| Confessions of a Collector | p. 68 |
| The Bug | p. 73 |
| Breaking the Code | p. 77 |
| Around the Market | p. 83 |
| How to Haggle | p. 87 |
| A Guide to the Gate | p. 93 |
| Dolls That Didn't Do | p. 96 |
| The Husband | p. 100 |
| How Much | p. 103 |
| The Stuff of Dreams | p. 108 |
| Joe Miller's Encore | p. 112 |
| Army Brat | p. 116 |
| Dealers and other Curiosities | |
| The True and Nearly Tragic Tale of an Antiques Orphan | p. 123 |
| Job Description | p. 128 |
| A Day in the Life of a Dealer | p. 132 |
| The Best Price | p. 139 |
| How to Be An Expert (why not...everybody else is) | p. 142 |
| Guru | p. 147 |
| It's in the Stars (astrology for the antiques and collectibles trade) | p. 151 |
| Intensive Care | p. 155 |
| Joe Miller at the Market | p. 159 |
| Very Early American (a collection of thoughts of an insomnious antiques dealer) | p. 165 |
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