The Dickinson press., 1888-08-25
CHEAP GEMS In CHINA.
HOW SOME PEOPLE SECURE eEAu1,.
Full DECORATIVE WARE.
One Of the Tricks of Trade In New York.
bargains Which Delight lsric-a-brnc
Misunderstanding the Importers I.x.
ira Pieces of wara

One Of the Tricks of Trade In New York
Bargains Which Delight Bric-a-brac
Hunters-Capturing the Importers tx.
ira Pieces of Ware.
Not all the bargains in the city, nor even
the most attractive ones in the wares that do
light women and bric-a-brac hunters are to
DO found on the bargain counters of the up
town bazaars Those who have accidentally
"rout of curiosity visited the wholesale stores
IN the glass, crockery, and decorative goods
districts on the side streets west of Broadway
from Barclay street to Chambers and above
II they have nosed around in the out-of the
way corners under stairways, or poked about
me dust covered stock showed away on back
S''eiSes IN odd corners, have found mine of
N'''"anie pieces of ornamental and useful
ware that can DO worked at Il mere tithe of
'no cost involved in transactions i'll the same
goods over uptown counters These nrc
sample lots, In the language of the trade
ati'i the principal interest Of the wholesa Iers
III Them Is to get them out of the way with ne
little trouble rs possible.
Inc choicest pieces obtainable In this wny
are of imported goods, and they are living
around loose because fine china and Glass
ware is sold usually by the wholesalers Inv
tho dozen The difficulty of replacing n
broken one in dozen Of foreign goods has
'cd TO the custom Of thirteen pieces being
packed for dozen by tho manufacturers
abroad Then il ono piece in dozen is
broken the set is still complete. If there is
no breakage the importer has an extra piece
on his hands for which he has no use. In n
large business great number of such pieces
no half dozen of them alike, accumulate in
short time i'll this and other similar WAYS
The buyers of the uptown houses take many
OF them for the bargain counters. especially
where there happen to be enough of auy sort
to make u small set; but many arc not avail.
able for this trade, and are left to be showed
oil INTO corners out of tho way until resur
rccted by some bargain hunter
by little diligence in going around from
place to place cabinet can be filled with
choice pieces, or n breakfast or a luncheon
set OF odd pieces be mado upat riliculously
small cost. Slightly damaged pieces. hut
available for decorative purposes, are found
III tho same dusty corners, and can be secured
even more chcaply than the perfect samples.
me genuine bric-a-hrac crank takes a real
enthusiasm in hunting through the wholesale
warehouses for these neglected specimens,
ana enjoys tho sensation of finding rare bit
OF glass or n dainty bit of china. hidden
under tho dust and cobwcbs of years. MS
much ns he does the getting of it for SOM,
aud the knowing that it cannot be duplicated
Tor less than five or six times what it cost him
AT least ono woman in New York found
this bargain mino nine years ago, and has
been working it greatly to her profit ever
since. She has little store, fifteen or twenty
feet square, on Il small sido street near Canal
y lot OF cheap crockery, marked at phenom.
rnally low prices, but not otherwise attrac.
tive lltters trays In front of the store.
The show window has n somewhat
moro prctentious appearance, but tho
real treasures of the place arc in n
case inside 1t is filled with pieces of
royal Worcester, Dresden, Vienna, Carlsbad
and other fine wares, even Scvres, all rcnu.
inc, and most of them perfect They nro for
sale for from ten to fifty per cent less than
they would be sold for in tho regular stores
Besides this the shop on every sito is filled
from floor to ceiling with chinnware, much
of it of tho best makers, and tho floor is so
heaped with it that only narrow space is
left in which to move about. Some of the,u
goods she sells Mt nearly their full value but
most of them go for half that or even less
Her customers wonder how she can do it, and
She smiles and says nothing; but tho fact is
that tho stock is entirely made up of tile odds
and ends, sample lots" and other debris of
the wholesalers York Sun