olde barn centre

We frequent many antique shops, flea markets, antique shows and fairs. I'd highly recommend this shop to everyone...new collector or experienced dealer. Prices are relative to condition, desire and availability. I too saw many by gone era things and found a clean, nicely decorated building full of many old and some new items.

Wife and I took road trip to visit this antique shop that we have seen advertised on local TV. This was an "olde" barn decently transformed into many different room displays. Apparently vendors set up their wares separately. Price tags seemed to have their initials as sales codes. There was a fairly large amount of items in each room, some distinctly different than others' yet some items were similar. I'm guessing the vendors were frequent visitors to yard sales and auctions. I am not an antique dealer nor a yard sale expert but I do know when some items are grossly over-priced. For example, there were two different round, metal serving trays with depictions of now-extinct beer-brewing companies. Sale prices $36.00 and $38.00. I purchased older similar trays for $8.00 at different "antique" shops and have seen/rejected trays for $20.00.If I were an expert, I might have uncovered some good buys but as a novice I couldn't justify the prices for items I liked. Nor could my wife who is a consumate shopper. It was fun however to see some items like those that our parents owned while we were young children. My wife kept repeating, "my mother had one of these" and I kept repeating "for prices like these maybe she should have kept them".OK trip for nostalgia, not OK for bargains.