Some mirror trivia.
Long ago, I purchased at a local auction house, .... an Oak framed dresser mirror similar to the one pictured below (just the mirror, not the dresser).
The one I purchased was a little longer and a tad narrower than the one pictured, had a fancier crown filigree, had beveled glass and was almost “black” in color like old oak furniture gets.
Someone had repaired/replaced a 3-inch portion of the lower right part of the frame with a new piece of oak but didn’t bother to stain it to match. Thus it looked gawd awful and the reason I only had to pay $20 for it.
I refinished it to Golden Oak and hung it on the wall in my Antique Shop ….. and since I really didn’t want to sell it, I put a price of $78 on it, figuring no one was gonna pay that much for it.
Well now, every now n’ then, someone would come in the Shop, stare at that mirror for 2 or 3 minutes ……. and then continue looking at other things, ...... and every time, after that happened, .... I would increase my “selling price” by $20 or $25.
Eventually that “selling price” had increase to
$275 and I thought my mirror was safe.
But then one afternoon a dapper dressed gentleman came into my Shop, ….. stared at
my mirror for about 5 minutes, …. then turned around and counted me out $275 in cash, ….. took
his mirror off my wall and left with it.
Lesson learned. Never put a price on something unless you are sure you want to sell it.
