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1 Mary’s Antiques in Greensboro Resurrecting Pickers Pedals continued pg 4 The Exchange for Antiques, Artists, Collectors & Samples Mary Wells has been buying and selling on South Elm Street in Greensboro, NC for over 40 years. She is short but feisty, short but will lift anything, short but willing to deal and short but will help you locate anything! She has supplied décor for restaurants, hotes, clubs, furniture market showrooms and 168 grocery stores all over the US. Nearly 150 were personally delivered by her so that she could buy at shops, antique malls, barns and auctions all the way back to Greensboro. Meanwhile, her team at home worked to sell, clean and touch up pieces for the next delivery when they would load and unload more Penske trucks. Her husband and daughter would sit at auctions practically every Friday and Saturday night while she had to decide whether or not to bid. Mary’s Antiques has specialized in unusual architectural items – mantels, doors, iron fencing and gates, fretwork and window shutters. The shop is also full of large and small furniture items – back bars, Victorian sideboards, golden oak dressers and desks, pine flat back cupboards. Small items such as print blocks and type, hundreds of old buttons, postcards, and alphabet letters. Shopping is an experience you will enjoy at Mary’s! We Rise, Like a Phoenix from the Ashes... Well, for those of our steadfast and loyal magazine recipients, please first accept our profuse apologies for creating a ground breaking e- magazine and then abandoning it all after four short months years ago. Ours is a common story – Dale’s health issues demanded that all projects like Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders had to be put on the back burner. And my focus turned more towards teaching more kids traditional Chinese kung fu, which is the other side of my love for Asian history and cultural arts. Fast forward to present day and a small dedicated group of antique and collectible enthusiasts have stepped up to the plate to help us resurrect Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders. We have a new look but we really haven’t changed. We’re still the same folks who walk into a barn battling raccoons and black rat snakes to go pickin’. We’re still the same folks who knock on doors and call on people in the industry who just want to connect with others. And we’re still the same February 2015 Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders

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Mary’s Antiques

in Greensboro

Resurrecting Pickers Pedalscontinued pg 4

The Exchange for

Antiques, Artists,

Collectors & Samples

Mary Wells has been buying andselling on South Elm Street inGreensboro, NC for over 40 years.She is short but feisty, short but willlift anything, short but willing to dealand short but will help you locateanything!

She has supplied décor forrestaurants, hotes, clubs, furnituremarket showrooms and 168 grocerystores all over the US. Nearly 150were personally delivered by her sothat she could buy at shops, antiquemalls, barns and auctions all the wayback to Greensboro. Meanwhile, herteam at home worked to sell, cleanand touch up pieces for the nextdelivery when they would load and

unload more Penske trucks.Her husband and daughter would

sit at auctions practically every Fridayand Saturday night whileshe had to decidewhether or not to bid.

Mary’s Antiques hasspecialized in unusualarchitectural items –mantels, doors, ironfencing and gates,fretwork and windowshutters. The shop is alsofull of large and smallfurniture items – backbars, Victorian

sideboards, golden oak dressers anddesks, pine flat back cupboards.Small items such as print blocks andtype, hundreds of old buttons,postcards, and alphabet letters.

Shopping is an experience you willenjoy at Mary’s!

We Rise, Like a

Phoenix from

the Ashes...Well, for those of our steadfast and

loyal magazine recipients, please firstaccept our profuse apologies forcreating a ground breaking e-magazine and then abandoning it all

after four short months years ago.Ours is a common story – Dale’shealth issues demanded that allprojects like Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders had to be put on the backburner. And my focus turned moretowards teaching more kidstraditional Chinese kung fu, which isthe other side of my love for Asianhistory and cultural arts.

Fast forward to present day and asmall dedicated group of antique andcollectible enthusiasts have steppedup to the plate to help us resurrectPickers Pedals Passions & Blunders.We have a new look but we reallyhaven’t changed. We’re still the samefolks who walk into a barn battlingraccoons and black rat snakes to gopickin’. We’re still the same folks who

knock on doors and call on people inthe industry who just want to connectwith others. And we’re still the same

February 2015 Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders

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Souped Up Buscontinued next pg

International

Literary Giants

Are Among Us

While our peers American Pickers,American Restoration, Pawn Stars,and Antique Road Show on Cable TVand other publications like Garden &Guns, Architectural Digest, and RobbReport, Pickers, Pedals, Passions,and Blunders concentrates on thepeople who made our country great.

Most every American has made acontribution to preserve our historyfrom small ways recognition their onfamilies possessions to seeing allsegments of history are preservedthrough the written word.

Many may have the talents ofothers to express pros that bringsvivid images through word or talentsof the brush with color and a fewstrokes or pickup use tool to expressbeauty.

It has been said beauty is in theeyes of the beholder with totaldisregard to the number of eyes whoseek and desire to be the holder.

Fortunately I meet many peopleevery day with special gifts andtalents.

But two literary giants who I havethe met personally, both recognizedin their own right.

Aruthu Jones, pen name Triston

Jones, is a hero to most all well readsailors and and boaters. Triston isknow for his courage sailing aroundthe world writing about the water whoI set knee-to-knee at the Annapolis

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folks who drool all over classicand antique automobiles as well asselect choice items at different antiqueshows.

So many people from everywherehave kept in contact with us over theyears and we truly appreciatedeveryone’s encouragement andenthusiasm in resurrecting this e-zine.When Dale and I started it, it was alabor of love and much fun for us givenother projects we had previouslyundertaken. We were so shocked athow many people from all across theglobe contacted us wanting to knowmore about our unique businessmodel. What was funny were someof the responses we got when webasically told people we really did notmake money, were lucky to breakeven and that our magazine’s mission

Resurrecting Pickers Pedals cont. was to provide service to others.Now that last phrase is very importantand potent. There is no higher callingthan to be of service to others.

The small staff of people who nowstand behind Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders are dedicated enthusiastswho want to connect others. Thankyou to everyone out there for yoursupport many years ago and I hopeyou will give us a chance to win yourhearts over once again. We needadvertisers who want to get the wordout about their businesses and we alsoneed feedback from everyone as tohow to make this a better publication.Now witness a beautiful Phoenixarising from the cold ashes ofyesteryear. We promise it will be fun,too!

- Renee Warren & Dale Swiggett

Literary Giants continued

Boat Show in 1989.Jim Snyder is known for being a

ACC basketball player, MoreheadScholar, painter, writer, and anattorney.

Handpainted bar, 43 inches wide by 80 inches tall, wine rack, glass holder, slideout counter, storage, great condition, $650.00 - Call Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders at 336.340.6299 or email [email protected]

Renee Warren is theEditor of PickersPedals Passions &Blunders. She grewup around antiquesand collectibleswhile living in bothNC & SC but justwishes she had paid more attention toher grandmothers about their love of an-tiques and collectibles. Her favorite cat-egory is anything Asian or Oriental.

Dale Swiggett is thePublisher of Pick-ers Pedals Passions& Blunders. Hegrew up in the Triadarea of NC and hasbackgrounds intextiles and real es-tate development.

But his passions include history, travel,waterfront culture, and gets weak in theknees over classic automobiles.

Classifieds....

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Jarvis House in New Bern, NC

http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/CV0023.pdf

This item to the left isa page out of theNational HistoricRegistry applicationdone on the JarvisHouse. The link to this9 pg PDF can befound below.

Items fromPickers,

Pedals,Passions,& Blunders

will befeatured at theJarvis House.

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Classifieds....

Cream with brown trim enamel overiron wood cook stove. $850.00 -Call Pickers Pedals Passions &Blunders at 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Bolt down carnival ride horse,1940’s. To be ridden as a child on aMerry-go-round. $485 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Red farm cart – pulled by a persongoing to market with vegetables forsale. Popular in many countriesabroad. $325 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Tavern sign from Europe. Excellentcondition. Two sided enamel. Wouldwithstand any weather. Cast ironframe. $650 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Book press, floor model fromEngland, circa 1890. $1,800 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Branch bench, real branches, 54inches long, excellent condition,$209.00 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Our admiration of the antiqueis not admiration of the old, butof the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Classifieds....

Floor model oak revolving showcase,4-sided, drawers and doors. Circa1910. Very unusual item. $2,200 -Call Pickers Pedals Passions &Blunders at 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Four drug store counter stools,chrome on steel bases. Circa 1920’sand 1950’s. $125/ ea. - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

A Lions Head Greets My Guests

For those in the know of all thingsAsian, soon it will be time to usher inthe Year of the Wood Sheep. Theofficial Chinese New Year starts onFebruary 19th this year and unlike ourcountry’s traditional New Year theAsians follow a lunar calendar. So, Iam thrilled to have received a trulywonderful and thoughtful holiday gift

from dear friends of mine. I nearlyteared up once I unwrapped thismagnificent colorful ceramic ChineseLion holding a gold coin in his mouth,a very auspicious sign.

This beauty now sits just inside mydoor to my home office, which facesmy front door. The colors and thefiring and glazing of the ceramic areabsolutely gorgeous!

So, as February 19th rolls around,be sure to go eat some goodauthentic Chinese food and tell yourhost, waiter, cashier, etc Gung HayFat Choy! (Cantonese) or Gong XiFa Cai! (Mandarin). And to say‘thank you’ say Xie-xie (pronounced‘shi-shi’). A few cultural traditions tocelebrate the new lunar year are toeat very long noodles, wear red orbrightly colored clothing, and ofcourse, lots of good food, family, andfriends.

- Renee Warren

Walnut country wardrobe, circa 1840, Eastern NC, pegged, square nailed, interiorsplit shelves, hanger design, $850.00 - Call Pickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or email [email protected]

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Classifieds....

White medical cabinet, 37 incheswide with 8.5 inches side trays by 17inches deep, 70.5 inches tall, originalfinish and hardware, beveled glass,great condition, $1,650.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Oak Regent 2-door ice box, originallabel and hardware refinished, originalwire shelves, $750.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Western stoneware crock drinkingdispenser, front view, labeledMonmouth filter, wooden top, hairlinecracks, $160.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

3-door Pine ice box, Essex ColdKing, cork lined, original finish,hardware and wheels, 32 inches wideby 18 inches deep by 44 inches tall,$200.00 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

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Pedals Passions &

Blunders

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Classifieds....

Country industrial chopping block,repurposed 1890’s furniture press,great butcher block kitchen island,$900.00 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Royal breakfast coffee display, toplifts, good coloring and lettering, 15inches wide by 16 inches deep by 28inches tall, $400.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Three filing cabinets - a) 6 piece stackable oak cabinet w/ original finish $1,800.00,b) Mellow Rhodes oak file cabinet - 4 cards over two drawers w/ original finish$900.00, c) oak file cabinet, 4 drawers, label Francis Smith, $475.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blunders at 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Countertop 12 drawer oakapothocary w/ porcelain knobs,bracket feet, dove-tailed drawers,original pharmacy description onsome drawers, $550.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Country store counter, left side, 3rows of drawers, great island piece,one end has been repurposed, 69inches long by 26 inches deep by 36inches tall, $750.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders Lesson for

the Week...

Expect the unexpected

while picking in less than

ideal conditions and

environments. And stay

current with Tetanus

vaccinations.

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Classifieds.... Oak 4 bin country store seed counter,6 ft by 24 inches deep by 37.5inches tall, would make a greatkitchen island or workstation,$1,850.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Rare octagonal seed bin, circa1900, 3 rows in front,displaying 18 glass see bins, 3rows of drawers plus onedrawer and door in the rear, toplifts off for easy shipping, a greatkitchen island piece, 51 incheswide by 31 incches deep by31.5 inches tall, $3,150.00 -Call Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders at 336.340.6299or email [email protected]

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Classifieds....

Oak seed bin, 10 ft by 37 inches wide by 37 inches tall, Walker Seed Company dated 1906, great original finish andhardware, $6,500.00. Call Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders at 336.340.6299 or email water.warrior8@ gmail.com

For info on our Display Adsizes and rates, email Dale Swiggett,[email protected], or call

336.340.6299 for details.

For those of our readerswho are looking for

something particular,please contact us and

we will do our very bestto locate the object of

your desire!

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Henkel-Harris armoire, solid cherry,36 inches wide by 55.5 inches tall,great conditiion, $899.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Lexington furniture jewelry chest,solid cherry, lighted, 56 inches tall by22 inches wide, $189.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Ships wheel, 38 inches diameter,NOT a reproduction, $175.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Ships anchors, 52 inches tall by 24inches wide, NOT a reproduction,$180.00/pair - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Pie safe, reproduction, solid wood,distressed paint, $350.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Sea bird painting by Morris Katz,known as the ‘world’s fastest painter’according to Guiness Book of WorldRecords, $275.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Classifieds....

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Pool table, 44 inches by 79 inches,Miztrak, includes balls, racks andcues, in good condition with a fewdings on the side, $200.00 - CallPickers Pedals Passions & Blundersat 336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Ottoman, 33 inches wide, black, greatcondition, $129.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

M a p l ew o o dstools, thickblue cushionseat, heavyduty, twoavailable,$75/each -Call PickersP e d a l sPassions &Blunders at336.340.6299

or email [email protected]

Piano bench, solid mahogany, greatcondition, $69.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Carved Native American chair, solidoak, $350.00 - Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Buffet / tv stand, oak wood, 49 incheswide by 35 inches tall, excellentcondition, $229.00 - Call PickersPedals Passions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

Queen bed, spool turned headboard,footboard, rails, slatsm, brand new,$429.00- Call Pickers PedalsPassions & Blunders at336.340.6299 or [email protected]

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Pickers PedalsPassions & Blundersis a NC-based publication.

Mailing address...PO Box 578Rolesville, NC 27571

Publisher...M. Dale [email protected]

Editor...Renee Warren919.880.5217rtwdesigns@embarqmailcom

Find Us on Issuu.com

Pickers Pedals Passions& Blunders is an eclecticmix of unique items, pas-sions, events and bar-gains and the people wholove them. Our mission isto provide more exposureon a monthly basis for an-tique and collectibledealers in order to connectto consumers who want tofind those dealers. There’salways this unquench-able thirst to add to one’scollection and to find thatever elusive item, whetherit be a piece of period fur-niture, a doll, a tea pot,or a vintage piece of farmequipment. We just wantto connect folks so that ev-eryone can buy and sellthe things that we all love.

Consignment stores of all types arenow a way of life and offer the valueof reuse around the World.

Gone are the days of a stigmaassociated with 2nd hand arereplaced with an air of frugal selectionand the option a broader timelypurchases. Smaller specialtymerchants are able to flee the high rent of mall and pass the saving on tothe customers.

Many such stores have openedaround the country, butno other has a locationbetween the Triad andTriangle between theRa le igh -DurhamAirport and theGreensboro, NorthCarolina Airport onInterstate Hwy.-85North South that runsfrom Washington, D.C.to Atlanta and I- 40

Consignment Connections in

Burlington, NC

East West that run across the UnitedStates and is in the center of NorthCarolina in Burlington.

Every store has its own personalityboth inside and out but ConsignmentConnections stand head and shoulders in exterior architecturesetting aloft the hustle and bustle andits interior fascination offers a refugeein the center of all the travelers inmuch of the Southeast.

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Consignment Connections in Burlington, NC