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Summary: Collecting old newspapers, tricks, tips and things to look for in this free video series on collecting antiques brought to you by an antiques store owner.
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About the Expert
Jan Braunstein Jan Braunstein owns and operates the Antique Avenue antiques store in Pomona, Calif. Her mother also owned an antique store. She is a certified antique apprai... read more
Expert Villagers, this is Jan, your fun antiquer, the happy treasure hunter. Yes, today I want to talk a little bit about something special, but before I do, I am going to tell you about myself. In case you do not know me, which of course everyone should by now at Expert Village, but I am your friendly, used-to-be college administrator who got really bored with everything after she got her PhD and decided that she did not care if people called her doctor anymore. It was boring. So what she did, what I did was decide to go into my lifelong passion. Follow your passion and that is collecting antiques and collectibles and history and all of that cool stuff. So, I decided to become certified as an appraiser. So, I do that too. I have some real fun. I go out and I make appraisals for people for insurance purposes or just if they want to know what something is worth. So they can decide if they want to keep it or can it. And we do appraisals and I also have an Antique Mall. A large Antique Mall in Pomona called Antique Avenue. Pomona is a wonderful area to visit. The antique district in Pomona, where there are numerous antique stores, probably at least twenty. And there is also a beautiful art colony on the other side where you can find all kinds of artistic treasures. But today, we are probably going to talk a little bit about paper like newspapers and comic books.