A true adventure story and the go-to guide for "picking" American
treasures from anyone's backyard, straight from the stars of
History's "American Pickers"
In these pages, professional treasure hunters Mike Wolfe and Frank
Fritz chronicle their road trips across the American countryside in
search of "rusty gold" to buy and sell among the picking world's
one-of-a-kind characters. Whether you are a fan of the show or just
like finding hidden riches, you will love seeing what Wolfe and
Fritz dig up and enjoy meeting the devoted collectors, extreme
stockpilers, and elite dealers who they encounter along the way.
Wolfe and Fritz do not deal in fine antiques. Their secondhand
treasures are of the down-and-dirty and sometimes even bizarre
variety, from old bicycles and vintage tools, to sun-bleached cars
and handmade furniture, retired carnival games and unusual
taxidermy. Assisted by Danielle Colby, who helps out at Antique
Archaeology, Wolfe and Fritz buy on the cheap and then sell to
dealers, art directors, interior designers, or anyone looking for a
little bit of authentic Americana. The three now share their
secrets to finding hidden gems, offering helpful hints that will
show what average Americans can do to find the treasures that await
them.
From "American Pickers Guide to Picking: "
Junk is Beautiful
When we knock on a door, 90 percent of the time the things we find
are junk. But we don't care about the odds; a picker never turns
down an opportunity, no matter where it is. We've picked pickup
trucks. We've picked flat beds. We've picked dumpsters. We even
picked a Mercury Sable. We're looking for the unusual, the
impossible, the funky, the different, the bizarre-things we have
never seen before. And we'll go anywhere we have to go to find it.
No location is off-limits to a hard-core picker. And there's plenty
of things to be found at antique stores, thrift and consignment
shops, flea markets, estate sales, and swap meets, and a lot of the
tips in this book apply to finding treasures at these joints. But
that's not really the kind of picking we do anymore. We look
outside the box to find our junk-a word we use almost like a term
of endearment: to us: junk is beautiful.
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