i was a kid taker for a number of years so i ended up with all her stuff and then estate sales flea markets on auctions since i open just about every day people come in trying to sell paper and paper could be magazines newspapers old advertisements letters journals postcards it's a huge area there's a number of a femoral societies there's an annual show that just happened a few months ago in new york is that a group postcards yes i have over two thousand postcards some of them going back magazine which has a picture of a girl holding the original life magazine and then the very last life magazine which was in seventy two and then in between i have almost full years sets between the forty's and you know everyone had scription is to live saturday evening post look holiday magazine so it's not a huge you know you have to have some unique magazines to get a really good price  on about things like boys life boys again if it's old you know in good shape on the books i mean a favorite comic books is a whole different ballgame that's really a separate thing i don't do many comic books i have some fifty's like rin tin tin gunsmoke things like that but they have a whole rating system for them and there's a whole i mean these conventions  toys yeah again the older they are in the condition will determine what price i have an early century buddy l truck from around one nine hundred fourteen it's worth anywhere between eight fifty and about fourteen fifty it's not in perfect condition but if you know good condition and again it all depends on can a lot of the older things that depends on condition dolls be a dollars is a whole dolls but again that that's also a big big area of big business what's the most unusual item who boy that you've run into well i have a lady two hundred stock this table oh that pictures of the presidents of certain areas with the year they were in office and the way you got them was with a package of mogul cigarettes cigarettes at the turn of the century and and again some of them you see online some of them in very good conditions the real old ones it's tough you know it again it comes down to condition so the question is don't throw anything away i mean it  really be who someone if they're clearing out is to look it up and check it out because it might be worth something it's amazing what people put out on the street perfectly good items some of the move very collectible  that you do rugs to we're going to run oh i don't throw rugs i have a friend that has a rug shop so i don't like the step on his toes so how did you get involved in this business this i've always had an interest in it i grew up in a syrian household and couple  relatives had the big oriental rugs and vases and such things and so it was always around and then as i got older and older it became more interesting and about ten fifteen years ago i started selling online and it just turned out to be something i enjoy you know now you're shop is just just up almost a year old now very the end of this money and you moved here from  waltham at a collective right before that i was there for about three years i was also a collective in cambridge for about a year now a collective is a group of antique dealers are right if somebody independent and you could be with the guy next to you would basically yeah he helps you when you need to and out as well you know in a collective you kind of trying to want to have something unique you know that the other dealers don't have if you can  i looked around and turns out the place i found in belmont i really liked and i didn't necessarily plan on living in belmont i was looking in cambridge arlington and some of all watertown and you know i wanted to stay close to cambridge being different i mean there were there were there were in the sense there were lots of right variety of things i mean if i wanted to if i wanted to find whatever you know i'd probably be pretty good chance of finding something similar in context of the business i'd be considered a small deal  because i have i don't have a lot of for i have some furniture but not a lot and i do a lot of glass and collectibles and femara signs you know i have a great collection of antique sleds i have one sled the american flyer of those are kind of yeah those are kind of ubiquitous and you always see them come out in the wintertime well of all collections that you've had all the things that you she didn't care about anything else just be lined it right for this malted milk mix and that was all she collected them it was from the fifty's yeah i think i threw one of those away actually my mum had what it was yeah yeah you just juggle the thing up and down and how telephones telephones are good i've already sold a good number of them i had some thirty's and forty's phones i still got a fifty forty is phone in the store again  condition what are they what do they get the candlestick telephones candlesticks if you can get a good candlestick you can get a really good price i had an all brass one from the thirty's and that's old well i had another one from the forty's in fact i liked it pretty soon to sell i may eventually put up my i do have a website that came with my phone service but it's not very good you know but i have actually i've made two videos of my store one when i first opened and then i just updated it last month and from the one that i the first one i did i made three or four sales just from the video yeah well a person in texas saw something in canada saw something so it's just that t to be a great location i'm in a run of seven stores on one side of me is a pizza parlor other side of me as a hairdresser so people that go there eventually come into my store you know where they're waiting for their pizza or waiting for their point been a new place just opened up a little cafe pretty lean coffee and croissants so i'm getting traffic from the other stores in this stretch i get people call me i was at the bus stop this morning what's that in your window