The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08
SOME STILL LEFT
Hunters of Antiques in Connec ticut Locate a
 Few.
IRE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES
People Have Got Rich by Buying and Selling All Kinds of Old Things,

Notwithstanding the industry of searchers for old furniture and old china of the Colonial period for years past, finds of antiques are still made occasionally on Connecticut farms.
 Within a month a book agent who knew about old furniture and crock cry happened to call about dinner time at a farmhouse few miles out of Hartford The owner of the farm was a widow over 70, the sole remain ngsdescendant of a noted lawyer of the latter part of the eighteenth cen tury. The farmhouse had been the homestead of the family since 1130. and when the visitor was shown into the front parlor he found a dozen Chppendale chairs there,
 Although tho oaken ceiling of the dining room showed the dust of gen erations and the floor was warped in one corner stood Hepplewhite side board propped up on three legs. mahogany block front desk, carved ta- ! of the treasures that the attic disclos- ed all of which the owner was glad to exchange for the money that would buy her modern luxurles.
 It leaked out later that travelling collector had unearthed in neighbor- ing house some weeks before and had carried away for 15 cents a Crown Derby cup and saucer that he sold later for sSO
 A New Yorker. member of tho faculty of Columbia University, told ! friends here recently of an experience he had few months ago with a Con nccticut family who had migrated with their worldly goods just across the State Inc into New York While tramping over the hills he stopped to ask for a glass of water at a little tumbledoNn house. and on being in yited to enter was surprised to find in the only bedroom a high carved bed of Spanish mahogany
 On being asked if she would sell it the woman of the house said she would be glad to have in it's place a white iron one.
 What do you want for it?" inquir- cd the scientific man.
 Well" said the old lady, last | summer one of those automobile fel- ! lors came along and he offered mo ' SEQ for it. but I wouldn't sell it cause ] thought that fl he offered so much | his money couldn't he good | When told that the New Yorker was ! ready to deposit s2O in gold in ex- ! change for the bed and give her time ! 10 test the coin before taking if away ! she expressed great surprise that peo- pie coald have so much money and be such fools with l. He carried back ! to New York with him a bed cstimat- cd to he worth s4oo
 A Connecticut physician tells how 1 he came near losing in his early days one of his hes. paying patients through his love for antiques. In his I visit to tho home of this patient. some twenty years ago, he offered to ] buy of her a set of six historical ' pates known to collectors as the pr 1 Syntax plates He paid her dollar apiece. sS more than she asked for the set.
 some days afterward he overheard her relating the fact to neghhor winding up her recital as follows: Do you know I'm beginning to think Dr M isn't just right in his head payin such price for those old blue plates of mine. an I've half a mind not to have him again"
 Occasionally a piece of this old fur nture is parted with at sacrifice bl its owner In Norwich recently ar old sofa was sold by it's owner fol | sufficient money to keepher out of tht pourhouse for the winter.
 For several years professional col lectnrs and others had been trying tt buy it. but its owner had always re fused to sell She said that her moth CT had died on that sofa and that a long as she could keep 1t she would
 An undertaken of eastern Connect cut has been collecting furniture ant crockery from his customers for tn last quarter of a century in part pay ment for bills. and all this has beer stored away until he now owns an tiqucs valued at a large sum A neigh bor of his. a widow. has educated he three children and put two girl through Nassar college on money tha she has made from the sale of he "a I porous days and what she has beer able to gather since.
 Within a few weeks the death of collector over the Massachusetts lin, disclosed that he had left fortune O $500. 900 Ten years ago he was work ing on the streets of small New England city when an old coloret woman sold him for dollar wrecl of an old bureau
 While carting if to his home aftcI work he met an auctioneer who offer ed him a five dollar bill for the bu rcau He sold fl.
 X day CT two later he saw a pros porous looking city chap on an ex press wagon toting that same burea, into tbe city and led br curiosity h, stopped him and asked him where h, get it.
 T just bought it. said the prouc posScssor of the bureau. "of Nr smith and paind him $50 for it."
 "Pegorra. said the laberor. that the bureau I sold smith myself for < ,l,,- bof,ra ,-octc-fi9N v
 That night he gave up his ioh ol the road and started collecting an tiqueS.-Litchfeld Correspondence