THRIFT SHOPPING vs VINTAGE MARKET | RESELLER STORE Comparison

ANTIQUE SHOPPING Better at the THRIFT STORE? | VINTAGE THRIFTING

This is a tale of two types of vintage shopping! Which will prove more captivating to collectors...and which will prove more profitable for this reseller?

We start at a vintage market in Idaho, a new-fashioned take on the antique mall concept where the term "vintage" is open to interpretation. True antiques can be found, presented attractively in room-like settings that show how these items can be styled for modern use! On the other hand, there's a boatload of "retro" goods, things that may have an old-school flair but are actually new imports. Can real vintage goods thrive when undercut by offshore fakes in the same store?

We do find true vintage that tantalizes, from pretty marble top Italian tables and antique stained glass to small vintage items from World's Fairs, 1940s Hull Red Riding Hood ware and Annalee Santas! But to our disappointment, we also find entire spaces filled with brand new stuff you can order out of a catalog, at prices that make real antiques and vintage look like the real deals. "Vintage" is a loosely defined term in places like this...I prefer the @leftcoastrevivals way of mixing truly vintage items into BoHo room settings, rather than ordering signs that say "Gather" or "Laundry"...or "Vintage"...that are not.

So on we go to another kind of store that mixes new and old...but at thrift store prices instead of boutique store premiums! Union Gospel Mission is a chain of Spokane stores, where donors have generously left us a lot of vintage goods (including the same World's Fair plate we saw for five times the price in the first shop). Presidential plates, sweet cup-and-saucers, ruby flash cut stems, Fostoria glass...this place has reseller potential! Vintage speakers and stereo equipment, Star Wars spaceships, furniture, damascene brass vases...this place does have the variety, and there are things we can flip for a profit.

Taken together, this episode offers a good illustration of one place to source, and one place to sell in the antique and vintage market! Which appeals to you probably has a lot to do with whether you are a reseller, a serious collector or a casual decorator.

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