Selling small frames and prints for purely decorative uses.
Posted: Tue 28 Jun, 2022 10:04 am
There has been a bit of a trend for people looking for nick nacks for putting on display shelves and places like that. Before covid people used to go around car sales boots looking for stuff like that, but there are precious few car boots sales around near me at all and perhaps this is the same around the whole country. Charity shops know all about people looking for nick nacks as well and it's been going on a while. Small frames with strut backs which will stand up easily on small shelves can be interesting small sales items. When I first started, I bought all lot of stock and equipment from a framers in Totnes and much of this became the basis of my shop. They have a massive collection of 5 inch by 3 1/2 inch strut backs, which I took no notice of. Most of them get thrown away, but I found a few while tidying up which must have escaped being throw out. As it turns out, old framers in popular tourist areas used to buy up old job lots of local post cards cheap and cut these down to fit little frames like these. I never paid much attention to these and did not understand that therewas any kind of market for this stuff.
To be honest, it has taken me a very long time to find out what this is all about. These were always intended as cheap items, but over the years people have become interested in stuff like this again. It's a little bit of a trendy thing with some people and there's a bit of a revial been slowly developing amoung some people, This even a name for it, it's called self litter it is getting a little bit of a following again and some of this stuff it slowly creeping into the collectibles, an salvage decor market. It's more popular in some places than others, but old junk shops are starting to sell this stuff. I used to sell old engraving type prints and I've still got some left including areasonable number of little minature ones. They were always something, or nothing, but I used to mount and sell them from my secondhand books and antique prints shop. Nice litle mounted print usually sold for a fiver and that was back in the 1990's, Maybe there's still a little bit of money still to be made doing stuff like that. I have a large number of old WilliamThakery engraving with printed captions which maybe are worth a try. They are actull antique print from the victorian era.
Amazingly Simons still list these little 5 inch by 3 1/2 inch strut backs at 35 pence each plus VAT. Maybe there a bit of potential in stuff like this still!
To be honest, it has taken me a very long time to find out what this is all about. These were always intended as cheap items, but over the years people have become interested in stuff like this again. It's a little bit of a trendy thing with some people and there's a bit of a revial been slowly developing amoung some people, This even a name for it, it's called self litter it is getting a little bit of a following again and some of this stuff it slowly creeping into the collectibles, an salvage decor market. It's more popular in some places than others, but old junk shops are starting to sell this stuff. I used to sell old engraving type prints and I've still got some left including areasonable number of little minature ones. They were always something, or nothing, but I used to mount and sell them from my secondhand books and antique prints shop. Nice litle mounted print usually sold for a fiver and that was back in the 1990's, Maybe there's still a little bit of money still to be made doing stuff like that. I have a large number of old WilliamThakery engraving with printed captions which maybe are worth a try. They are actull antique print from the victorian era.
Amazingly Simons still list these little 5 inch by 3 1/2 inch strut backs at 35 pence each plus VAT. Maybe there a bit of potential in stuff like this still!