What's Your Game Plan When You Stroll Through An Antique Mall: Look Up, Look Down...

What's Your Game Plan When You Stroll Through An Antique Mall ?

Are you a one sider or a two sider? Do you have an M.O.? Give it up....are you a clueless wanderer or a neurotic browser? Many visitors to larger stores have their set plan of how they navigate their run through. Especially if its a place that you have visited before, you usually have a path that you follow.

Are You A One Sider Or Two Sider?

Do you go up and down a row and just stick to one side or do you go in and out of each booth on both sides of the aisle? I am very deliberate about my journey. I carefully do one side of the aisle first and then the other.

REVERSE Your Modus Operandi

But here is the important tip...after you have wandered through a store. REVERSE your path and do the entire stroll again but from the opposite side of the store that you started and the last row you are in. In other words. Start again down the same row you are in (your last booth).



Checking Out Every Vantage Point

Now you will find that even though you have been down that aisle before, you will see things quite differently, Your vantage point has now changed. And you will even spot things across the aisle that you didn't notice before. This method allows you to see beyond eye level. You will now spot items on the very bottom shelves of the booth you are in as well as notice new things across the row from you.

Look Up, Look Down

And remember always look up and down. Many dealers hang things from the ceilings or in odd places. You never know where you will find the collectible you are after. Dealers also put so many collectibles on higher shelves or on top of furniture.

Don't Yet Chipped Off

Often chipped or flawed items are put in hard to reach spots such as on a high shelf or a bottom shelf. This should be a clue to check these out of reach items more carefully.


C. Dianne Zweig is the author of Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, 50s and Hot Cottage Collectibles for Vintage Style Homes. She is also the Editor of Iantiqueonline.com an actively growing internet based resource community for people who buy, sell or collect antiques, collectibles and art. You can find Dianne’s fabulous retro and vintage kitchen, home and cottage collectibles at The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford, CT, a 22,000 feet antique emporium with an in-house retro café.

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