| Show B A B S onas AUTHENTIC STATEMENT ll 11 to TIM MUSS wo DADSON DIS DISCUSSES bUSSES OLT OLD FURNI furniture TUnE AS alt t investment PARK MASS many of my readers will be visiting their old homesteads durine the summer 1 urge them to e go up into the e arg aaltio 00 and see what it contains in the way of k discarded furniture there may by bt something lot of value which was brought frond new england by your grandparents or great grand parents story of a poor poof teacher when I 1 first met miss helen temple cooke she hail had borro borrowed 1000 to start a 14 small mail private school for girls in wellesley mass which she nor named ned banu hall around that time I 1 started a small school for boys boyi in wellesley miss cooks cooke and I 1 became very good friends help ing each other in many ways way she came to me one day and asked it if I 1 had any ideas about Iri investment vestments for ft a poor school te acherl she added N that hat sit she had been thinking of buying old furniture of the proper periods believing that title this would gradually become more valuable I 1 agreed that her plan seemed wise thereupon site started to put her savings af a tow lew hundred dollars a year into carefully selected old mahogany furniture secured from old attics auction room and wherever she alto could find something which could be properly restored some two years ago miss cooke passed on to a better world and left this furniture to dana hall II 11 all which has become a very well known institution ution As the school Is now brals baiting rai ting ing money for new hew buildings tile the trustees have decider cleel dei to auction off this furniture ou other I 1 er it treas e a quid ui onoto estor for which dana hall should get around bluffed ruml tur of 0 no volts value the fact that a thing Is old does hot necessarily make it valuable stuffed furniture however oldis old is ls of little vat ue lie old books in general sell at auction for or perhaps each cacti and old pictures have little value out but it if the furniture Is made of 0 mahogany and Is of the right period it makes little difference how badly it may be broken an antique dealer can us usually itally replace a missing parta part another thing to took for Is old claps unfortunately copies have anve been made by modern glees glas makers which are now sold in the dime clime stores almost every grand pother however has ha a few pieces of actual sandwich glass A set ot of half a dozen of these thee goblets should be valuable even if your grandi grandmother noth r la Is still using them JA her kitchen certain kinds of old fash lolled jewelry have a good market but such items should be appraised by an accredited jeweler any diamonds acquired over fifty years ago would have to bo be in order to be salable today old gold and silver however always have a value talkie selling polling by height an antique dealer Is usually interested also in old brg breathes broach athes ca even if they did not cost much at the time modern costume jewelers have not copied all of these broaches of the labor involved stamp all atlon may mar have value warty young people collect postage stamps I 1 saw an album the other day which had only two stamps of any worth out of a collection of five tho thousand but these two stamps are valued at several hundred dollars e each ach foreign stamps are not often of ten worth much the world wars have upset foreign countries furthermore some of tile the newer countries are constantly printing new issues in order to eu ell them to collectors and tills this disturbs tile the foreign stamp market I 1 advise interested young to people ee pie to confine their coll collection e to 10 US stamps old let found in attics may have voine old united states stairs on oil them that eliat could be sold nold at a good price to an honest dealer probably your public library has a stamp catalogue which will give you a price quotation for each of these US U S what causes caun In dallon the government can always print more money therefore money in the bank or of elsewhere Is not a good hedge against inflation as it may become slowly but constantly of bt less value an inflation hedge should be something whose supply cannot be bd Increased such oil as ocean front property and underground resources resource i the same principle apple to old mahogany sandwich glass and old US U S postage stamps tills Is a good tet test to apply when laying anything for your horne home |
