Three strikes

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It Saturday morning.

"Hey Picker. What have you got?" John, from the duo John and Fred, wants to know what I'm selling.

Like most Saturday’s, I'm at the flea market.

"Nothing."

The Golden Nugget Antique Market was founded in 1967. Two miles south of Lambertville, New Jersey; dealers buy, sell and trade antiques, collectibles and art Wednesdays and weekends year round.

At four this morning I grabbed a painting from the stables; threw it in the backseat; called the beast and set off to the market.

Popped the trunk; removed and set up an easel; grabbed the painting from the backseat and set it up.

It was early summer. The sun was just starting to come up and it was about 70 degrees. Kenny, who specializes in early twentieth century smalls, asked "How much?"

'Smalls' are what we in the trade call antiques and collectibles that you can carry in your hands.

"It's not for sale."

The painting that I placed on the easel was an Anthony 'Doo Wop' DeAngelo special. Although Anthony was no longer with us, I still had dozens of his paintings in my workshop.

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