People are still buying antiques in this very tough economy, two antique sellers from Innisfail say.
“There's usually something that's cheap enough that people collect that they can pick up,” Janice Yeats said.
She and Andrea Ware attended the second annual Gun and Antique Show in Olds last month.
“We had so much fun last year that we came back for more this year,” Yeats said.
“We've always done guns and antiques,” Ware added. “I think they both go together.”
Yeats said their sales were “steady” during the show, about the same as sales last year.
When contacted by the Province, Yeats and Ware said there was no discernable trend in antique sales.
“We were just discussing that,” Yeats said. “Today, it's very eclectic. We've sold some small furniture, we sold a chest and we sold some wicker. Books – lots of books, vintage tins.”
Yeats and Ware estimate they had about 1,200 items on display in their booth at the Olds event.
Items for sale ranged from some items such as a tin vase dating back to the late 1800s to some hand-carved wooden bowls believed to only be about three years old.
The most expensive item for sale was a train set priced at $150. The cheapest were the items in the “loonie bin.”
“It's just a cardboard box and everything in it's a dollar apiece,” Yeats said, pointing out that those loonie bin items included a pot.
