To date, Nair and Davin have purchased scores of trunks at auctions and at flea markets.
Soon he began combing flea markets, antique shops and junk stores for more deals.
Stolen instruments can turn up on eBay, at flea markets or be sold privately.
Surprise finds like this are what keep Antiques Roadshow, stoop sales and flea markets in business.
Flea markets are a very good place to look for vintage kitchen mixing bowls, which I love to serve from.
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Plenty of people love to spend their time looking for treasures and unique items at flea markets and yard sales.
That is, they don't want to require people at these gunshows and flea markets to have to do the same background checks.
Many bricks-and-mortar bookshops still make a good living, as do flea markets.
But rather than order parts from catalogues, Williams is a first-class junk-picker, trawling flea markets and junk dealers in his Jaguar sedan.
The book features prime examples from Ms. Fili's personal collection of vintage logos and signage, culled mostly from flea markets throughout Europe.
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The 26-year-old deejay and producer has a formidable collection of turntables, computers and video monitors, many of them culled from area flea markets.
Mexican immigrants running flea markets in the area routinely roll up their trucks to buy up clothes, furniture, gadgets and other items in bulk.
He and I share a love for the bygone Chelsea and Manhattan flea markets of yore, and agreed that the idea of a Brooklyn Flea had legs.
Found in flea markets and estate sales, the paintings all imitate a lost 1885 original, conforming in profile pose and bright red veil but differing in myriad details.
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"She's great at spotting fakes at flea markets, " he explains.
They targeted international shipments of merchandise while also focusing on places where such items might be stored or sold, such as warehouses, stores, flea markets, street vendors and online vendors.
Previously, Crane also produced and hosted "I Believe, " a web series on religion in America, "Fleaing the World" a series on the business of flea markets, and a documentary on homeschooling titled "Home Ed".
But she recalls picking up from her mother not only how to sew but also a source of inspiration: the remnants of cloth made for one-of-a-kind garments that were sold at flea markets.
In my early twenties it was a year before she learned my boyfriend's last name, though she would dedicate weeks to hunting in flea markets for just the right piece of furniture for my apartment.
Raised on Long Island, where she frequented thrift stores out of necessity rather than adventure, she worked as a waitress in San Francisco in the 1970s but gravitated to the legendary flea markets that flank the coast.
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Sudeith's business is too small to support a showroom, so he ekes out a living selling at flea markets in Manhattan and Brooklyn and over his Web site, www.warrug.com, the best source of war rug images on the Internet.
To frame the collection, Louboutin has placed searchlights from the Suez Canal (picked up in Cairo and at the Paris flea markets), Syrian columns purchased at auction, two Aztec-like totem poles from Mexico City and a pair of Indian rococo columns found in a Paris antiques shop.
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