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Greetings from Queens, NYC.
Junk shops were really quite common in the mid late 19th c and we dug
one in about 1989. We have some copies of the report left. Contact me
off list.
Archaeology of the Pioneer Junk Store [Sacramento, California],
1877-1908, by Mary Praetzellis & Adrian Praetzellis, 1990
-- Adrian
On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:58 PM, "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> On our site today, discussions got around to pottery distribution in
> the 18th & 19th century and secondary markets. The phenomenon of
> hand-me-downs from plantation owner to overseer to slave is
> documented. But in an urban environment, was there a mechanism for
> distribution of wares "not of the latest fashion" to secondary
> markets and/or distributees in any formal manner or was it an ad hoc
> arrangement. And, has anyone looked at the archaeological record to
> show same, if it exists? Did what we now call second-hand shops
> exist except as 20th century inventions? How common were the
> Dickensian Old Curiosity Shops as mechanisms for redistribution of
> goods for the middle/lower classes outside major metro areas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lyle Browning, RPA
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