People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — Damaged Bric-a-Brac. [ARTICLE]

Damaged Bric-a-Brac.

A canny person, who has a liking for artistic odds and ends and bric-a-brac, can get a good deal of it for a littl® money if he will bide his time and b« watchful. Every dealer in porcelains, bronzes, rugs, prints and the like has a certain number of mishaps every year, and when an article of merchandise is a little bit damaged it suffers a sweeping loss in value. The canny one gets his bric-a-brac a little damaged and mends it. A chipped edge on a Venetian glass, an obstinate rust spot on an old helmet, a tear in a print, a smear of wine or ink on a Persian rug, a scratch on a Chinese jar, a break in an ivory carving, enable him to get these treasures for half price, and a little skill and a few cents of expenditure will put them in good order.