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Antique Hunting
~ by Paul Sackmann
Locally built instruments and affordable student models meticulously displayed, making this little music store a destination point in Brown County
Lovingly owned and operated by Kara Barnard and Kristin Thompson musicians, instructors and instrument adoption specialists
58 E. Main Nashville, IN— Look for BANJO by courthouse
812-200-3300 • www. weedpatchmusicshop. com
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My name is Paul Sackmann. My wife, Paulette and I, have an antique store in Bean Blossom, Indiana. It’ s just up the road, five miles North of Nashville, on State Road 135 North.
Our business is a tricky one to maintain inventory. You cannot just make a phone call and order up antiques and interesting old stuff from a wholesaler. Most items we carry are obsolete and some items have not been made for seventy-five years or more— good old“ old” things. Stuff has to be purchased at auction, estates, or just found hunting in junk shops and other stores like ours.
We take one day road trips throughout our great state of Indiana hunting our treasures. We like to stay around the southern part of Indiana, no more than two, three hours away from home.
We know what is good to buy for the store. There are certain antiques that are plentiful down around the Ohio River that can be bought for a better value rather than closer to Indianapolis.
Indiana is still one of the best places to find antiques. It’ s all here: pie safes, Hoosier cabinets, ladder-backed chairs, chests of drawers, stools, iron junk. You just have to search it out. But that’ s the fun of antiquing. Indiana is also easy on the pocket book compared to other areas.
There are many local antique one day shows during the winter and spring months. We try to make the time to shop these as they are a great source for good antiques.
Many people tell me that antiques are hard to find anymore— Yup, all dried up, gone! These folks aren’ t looking very hard. Old stuff is plentiful. You just have to find it in the maze of modern Indiana.
Happy antique hunting. •
46 Our Brown County • Nov./ Dec. 2017