Messages

1

Antique Questions Forum / Re: Iphone app for identifying antiques

« on: March 05, 2015, 11:41:22 pm »

Hello Henrik, it looks like my response may be late in the game here but I would most certainly use this app on a daily basis. There are now apps out there that are similar to what you are speaking of so I'm not sure if you have completed this and have it in beta or even released to public yet. Don't listen to all of the naysayers out there, anything can be done when you put your time, mind and heart into it. I personally know quite a few people that would get your app. Sometimes names are worn on antiques/vintage items, sometimes I get huge lots of items and there are usually a few things in it that I have no clue how to create my description when reselling. I am of the "younger generation" I suppose you could say. 37 years old but have been in the business of buying and reselling not only antiques but a wide variety of items now for 12+ years. I am very interested in the status of your project, I have a huge amount of photos that I could pass along for you to include in your database. And I would be willing to help in anyway possible. The Kovels yearly antique books are good, but can be extremely difficult to use if you do not have all of the information pertaining to the products. They do not include many photos which therefor leaves you to basically guess on the exact item you are trying to identify and get an average selling/asking price for. Would your app be able to link up with ebay or some of the other reselling sites out there? You could include a defined field that would generate a current average Low and average High selling price depending upon the conditions of items. In any case, I am extremely interested to see how far along you are with this process and am always available to give any input necessary. Best wishes to you.

Nick Nelson

Hi everyone,

I'm working on on a smartphone application (aka. iPhone app) that makes it really easy to post and answer photo based questions.

Despite collecting some ceramics myself I'm not an antiques expert , however I'm thinking that this app would be great for identifying antiques (as these questions often include photos) but I would love to hear your views on it! The app isn't finished yet but to explain and demonstrate the idea I've put up a dummy explanation here that you can have a look at: http://www.moracle.co/example/

Do you have any general feedback or comments?

Would you use it? Why or why not?

Is there any specific features that you would like to have? (anything goes!  )

Do you think you could use it for other things than antiques?

Thanks in advance!

Henrik Bohman