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Killer stuff and tons of money [large type] : seeking history and hidden gems in flea-market America / Maureen Stanton.

by Stanton, Maureen.

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Detroit [Mich.] : Thorndike Press, 2011.

Antiques business -- United States.

Flea markets -- United States.

9781410441249 (lg. print : hbk.)

1410441245 (lg. print : hbk.)

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.

627 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Large print ed.

Prologue : Treasure hunters : The reality -- Opium bottles and knuckleheads -- One man's trash -- Boot camp -- An antiques dealer is made -- That good, good thing -- Everything rich and strange -- Ovoid nuts and southern belles -- All sad things are just like this -- Hot potato -- Tea for two -- Crowded house -- Two heads are better than one -- Stump the dealer -- Shop victoriously -- Gold is where you find it -- Roadshow rage -- Wilmington, aka the John Malkovich show -- Living the pilgrim-century life -- Red carpet affair -- Captain Antiques -- Life with principles -- A thousand years.

Millions of Americans are drawn to antiques and flea market culture. This world has the air of a lottery, where a $20 purchase could net you six figures. Master dealer Curt Avery, the unlikely star of Killer Stuff and Tons of Money, plays that lottery every day, and he wins it more than most. Occasionally he gets lucky, but more often he draws on a deep knowledge of America's past and the odd, fascinating and beautiful objects that have survived it.

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