Antiques are items or pieces that reflect ancient history. They remind the bearer of medieval times or times that predates them. Any item above 100 years old is considered antique. If it’s not up to a century, it’s hardly classified as antique or can be argued.

For individuals, the collection of antiques is perceived in varied ways. Some find it boring, while some see the thrill in it, and enjoy every moment of the buying and keeping. Some people are more attached to history than some others. Some are avid readers and would love to lay their hands on some of the ancient items read in history books.

So while you have people who fancy antiques, you have others in another category of people who just find them banal and simply pointless.

Here we are looking at the dealers of these antiques or dealing on antiques and what must have inspired the trade for them.

It should be noted that for you to become a dealer, you must be overly fascinated by relics and antiques in the first place. If you are looking to make a profit as your major intent, then you might want to try another industry.

Dealing on relics is something people fascinated about arts, cultures, and history pride themselves in doing. It shows in the way they narrate the history of the pieces, the enthusiasm in their tone, and the gestures all tell of love. Love for the arts, and love for the ancient.

Now for them, dealing on antiques is anything but boring. It’s everything adventurous, thrilling, fascinating, exciting, and rewarding. These are the kind of people who love to visit museums and mausoleums. They love to immerse themselves or get drenched in the tales of ancient history while they get the “oohs and aahs”.

That feeling isn’t one you classify as boring or lame. It’s an experience, an exciting one at that.

Why People Find Dealing in Antiques Exciting

The reasons aren’t so far-fetched and surplus. Here are a few of them.

A History with History, Arts, and Culture

The childhood of some people might have been characterized by history lessons from their parents and grandparents. Too many tales of WW1 and WW2, too many lectures on the lives of Columbus, Napoleon, Caesar, Emperor Nero, and the likes. Such a history with a rich history can spur such people to seek for those items when they are all grown. Of course, that will evoke the love for history as the seed for it was planted in them at a very young age.

For some others, the rich art and culture in the land where they grew up were enough to get them into the business. Some towns are ancient in curb appeal, style, and in their everyday dealings. This is not because civilization failed to arrive at their destination. They just love the culture and history that predates them and decided to preserve it. Being born in that kind of environment can naturally inspire the love for arts and culture, hence the innate need to start dealing on antiques. That’s a history with arts and culture and a rational precursor to why some people love antiques more than others.

The Thrill and Exclusiveness of Acquiring Antiques

It’s all part of human nature to acquire things not everyone within two blocks away or even in the entire city can boast of having. Some people love to have this feeling. The stately feel of having relics, artifacts, or antiques as in this case, is treasured by some people. For most of them, it isn’t about love for history, arts, or culture. It’s about that rare privilege of being the only one to possess such a prized ancient item.

So you find them in auctions being the highest bidder and take the most coveted furniture of one of history’s most prodigious warlords or the goblet of an ancient king who lived 500 years ago.

Here value speaks louder than passion. It’s about the thrill of the moment, the thrill of the chase at the eleventh hour, and the adrenaline rush to covet something everyone wants or something most people can’t have.

This is fun and adventurous. They look forward to auctions or when an alert pops up on eBay for an antique that should be bought within the hour.

When they’ve acquired enough antiques to make their inventory massive, they can decide to sell some. Even so, dealers of antiques love the exclusiveness of being the only ones selling that ancient item at any given time.

The rush to acquire it and sell to the highest bidder is everything fun, blissful and, mesmerizing.

Antiques come with a Timeless Appeal

Antiques are similar to gold in terms of value. They hardly depreciate, rather they appreciate with the years. In fact, the older they get, the higher their value, and consequently, a higher price is placed on them. When you tell someone this clock is 50 years old and tell the same person that the other frame overlooking the clock is 500 years old, which one gets the jaw-dropping expression?

I guess your answer was the same as mine. That’s the timeless appeal. From age to age, antiques never fizzle out in relevance and value. They are part of every culture. People love them and will continue to love them. Even if it means paying ridiculously high prices for them, the acquisition is a must.

This timeless appeal of antiques makes them a good investment. You can acquire as much as you can and sell them when you no longer need them. You’ll definitely be selling at a higher price than you bought them. That’s profit, and in the business world, it’s you making progress.

Antiques are sturdy especially furniture, so you don’t even need a warranty on them. They outlive generations, and if durability is your concern, antiques will outlast you and your children because they are well preserved and sturdy.

With an appeal that lives on regardless of trends and seasons, dealers of antiques find their business a unique one and one that comes with prestige, profit, and fun.

Why People Find them Boring

On the other side, here are some of the reasons why some set of people disagree with others on the entire concept of antiques.

They really are Boring

No offense intended for those who love them, but let’s face it. Antiques are less appealing insight. They tend to look all rustic and lacking luster. This is a major turn off and deal-breaker for many. So they wonder what’s exciting about an ugly antiquated piece of furniture that people are going gaga for.  But that’s not what the dealers see. They see the immense value that never depreciates.

People who find antique boring are pleased by aesthetic beauty, the glitters, brilliance, and the radiance of items.  They are overly focused on gold pieces of jewelry and find antiques utterly graceless. So it’s only common for them to find them boring and wonder what’s in them for the crazy biddings buyers do at auctions.

However, if you focus on how boring and ungraceful antiques appear, you might miss out on the value they bear. For antiques, appearance is not the key, but age and value.

No Interest in History, Arts, and Culture

The sub-heading says it all. People with no slight interest in history, arts, and culture will find antiquated furniture, pieces of jewelry, artworks, pottery, toys, and even automobiles boring. The love for art inspires indulgence more than anything. If that love and interest are absent, there’s no possibility of making antiques lovable.

No matter how hard you try to paint a picture of rich history, premium value, and timeless relevance to people who aren’t interested in arts and culture, your attempt and effort will be barren. They’ll never be impressed. It’s not just their thing. No interests whatsoever or they just feel indifferent at best.

Horrible History with Antiques

People are often defined by their past. What you see people have a fetish for today and what you see them have a phobia for can most of the time be linked to horrible experiences in the past. You can’t blame them. If someone was raped using an artifact as bait, that person will forever disdain artifacts and the likes on the backdrop of that traumatic experience.

If one’s childhood was characterized by a phobia for figurines and rustic items, it will affect anything antiquated in the present. These are rare cases but are still in the picture and can’t be ruled out entirely.

History defines a particular demographic in a lot of ways. It also defines an individual’s perspective about life, culture, environment, and a lot of other vital aspects of life. A poor or disturbing history with antiquated items can create a lifelong animosity for it.

Conclusion

Antiques are ancient timeless pieces of art, furniture, jewelry, or any other collectible that has been preserved by historians and art enthusiasts and transferred from generation to generation.

They are either been sold or preserved in museums. The sale part is where dealers in antique come in. Whether it’s boring or exciting and adventurous depends on individual perception, experience, or natural love.

But one thing is certain, if you have no interest in antiques, dealing in them will be challenging.