I Buy WNY

I Buy WNY I buy new and used items, purchase small estates, and help businesses liquidate unwanted inventory.

I've found some old stuff, but these 1675 books are the oldest dated item I've bought. A century older than the USA!
08/14/2025

I've found some old stuff, but these 1675 books are the oldest dated item I've bought. A century older than the USA!

Happy Father's Day!
06/15/2025

Happy Father's Day!

It was a crusty cast iron kind of week.
06/11/2025

It was a crusty cast iron kind of week.

This is me in a barn filled with tens of thousands of old books.This is me doing what I love.
06/03/2025

This is me in a barn filled with tens of thousands of old books.
This is me doing what I love.

It was a blast finding this piece of history. Perfect for mining, demolition, or catching pesky roadrunners. I even got ...
05/29/2025

It was a blast finding this piece of history. Perfect for mining, demolition, or catching pesky roadrunners. I even got it to work! (Video in comments).

Pickin' season is kickin' off. Let me know if you're doing some spring cleaning!
03/21/2025

Pickin' season is kickin' off. Let me know if you're doing some spring cleaning!

BRING BACK BEAUTIFUL BOOKS
01/29/2025

BRING BACK BEAUTIFUL BOOKS

When you find hundreds newspapers from the 1850s and 1860s, you buy them! Instead of growing mold in a New York barn, th...
01/13/2025

When you find hundreds newspapers from the 1850s and 1860s, you buy them! Instead of growing mold in a New York barn, they've gone back to their place of origin in Wisconsin. If you've got treasure that needs a new home - reach out!

We spend our days moving through a sea of objects. Most are impersonal and sterile, but some are alive with meaning and ...
11/10/2024

We spend our days moving through a sea of objects. Most are impersonal and sterile, but some are alive with meaning and stories. This is an antique "Coltello d'Amore," or "love knife." Hand-made from bone and horn in central and southern Italy, lovers would decorate and exchange them, usually as part of betrothal and marriage. The blade reads, "Costante li sarò" (I will be constant) and features an image of the beloved. She and the knife's maker are long gone, but their love lives on hundreds of years later in this beautiful object.

Boo! If you've got piles of junk scaring you, contact me (no postcard needed).
10/29/2024

Boo! If you've got piles of junk scaring you, contact me (no postcard needed).

There's nothing like the colors of Fall.
10/18/2024

There's nothing like the colors of Fall.

Gold. Human hair. A smiling photograph. These things are combined to make this Victorian mourning bracelet. In the late ...
08/14/2024

Gold. Human hair. A smiling photograph. These things are combined to make this Victorian mourning bracelet. In the late 1800s, mourning jewelry, often featuring locks of hair, was a popular way to remember a lost loved one - a way to keep them near.

It’s a sobering fact that the vintage and antiques business is intertwined with death. People collect and care for things, they die, and someone like me helps to pass their treasures on to someone else who will appreciate them. Done right, it’s a way of honoring a person’s life.

Perhaps more than anything else I’ve found, this bracelet seems to immortalize a person. A boy smiles at us across a hundred years; he is literally woven into the object. Maybe he’d be gratified that a part of him still survives - but I think he’d be more moved to know that someone loved him, missed him, and wanted to hold him close.

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