Download e-book for kindle: American Pickers Guide to Picking by Libby Callaway

A precise experience tale and the go-to consultant for "picking" American treasures from anyone's yard, instantly from the celebrities of History's American Pickers

In those pages, specialist treasure hunters Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz chronicle their street journeys around the American geographical region looking for "rusty gold" to shop for and promote one of the making a choice on world's different characters. no matter if you're a fan of the express or simply like discovering hidden riches, you are going to love seeing what Wolfe and Fritz dig up and luxuriate in assembly the dedicated creditors, severe stockpilers, and elite buyers who they come upon alongside the way.

Wolfe and Fritz don't deal in nice antiques. Their secondhand treasures are of the down-and-dirty and infrequently even extraordinary type, from previous bicycles and classic instruments, to sun-bleached automobiles and hand-crafted furnishings, retired carnival video games and strange taxidermy. Assisted via Danielle Colby, who is helping out at old Archaeology, Wolfe and Fritz purchase at the affordable after which promote to buyers, paintings administrators, inside designers, or somebody searching for a bit of actual Americana. the 3 now percentage their secrets and techniques to discovering hidden gem stones, delivering worthwhile tricks that may express what normal american citizens can do to discover the treasures that anticipate them.

From American Pickers consultant to Picking:

Junk is Beautiful

When we knock on a door, ninety percentage of the time the issues we discover are junk. yet we do not care concerning the odds; a picker by no means turns down a chance, regardless of the place it really is. now we have picked pickup vans. we now have picked flat beds. now we have picked dumpsters. We even picked a Mercury Sable. we are searching for the bizarre, the very unlikely, the funky, the various, the bizarre-things now we have by no means obvious sooner than. And we are going to pass at any place we need to visit locate it.

No position is off-limits to a hard-core picker. and there is lots of issues to be stumbled on at vintage shops, thrift and consignment retailers, flea markets, property revenues, and switch meets, and many the guidelines during this ebook observe to discovering treasures at those joints. yet that is not relatively the type of opting for we do anymore. we glance outdoor the field to discover our junk-a note we use just like a time period of endearment: to us: junk is beautiful.