A DAY IN THE LIFE OF...
STEPHEN COHU, ANTIQUES DEALER, COHU ANTIQUES
Alarm, shower, breakfast, walk the kids to school and that is where the daily routine ends. Home is also my place of work so the morning commute is not too arduous! I am not the most organised person in the world but when my invaluable employee Sarah arrives shortly after 9.00 a.m. we start to plan the day ahead, including house calls, removals, loading lorries for the U.K. etc. The shop is closed Mondays and Tuesdays for house calls and house clearances which we also do before the shop opens at ten and after closing at five from Wednesday to Saturday. Tuesday is also auction viewing day. There is often so much to do I struggle to even know where to begin.
House calls for viewing items for sale are normally booked in from 9.30 a.m. and sometimes we might do five or more in a single day. With the antiques and house clearance business you never know what you are going to find and I have been offered Pyrex glass and food blenders in upmarket apartments and have purchased fine Lalique glass from the most unpromising locations. I recently purchased the contents of a house for over £100,000 but sometimes we charge to take the stuff away! We can run around the island for an entire day and buy nothing.
Some people only want to sell single items and some want to sell the entire contents but we can confidently and efficiently deal with any situation and pride ourselves on offering the most environmentally and socially responsible clearance service on the island.
Very often a property to be cleared is found pretty much as the last occupant left it, sometimes clean and orderly, sometimes dirty and a complete jumble. Everything has to be sorted through and items of value recovered for sale in the shop or from one of my four warehouses. Re-usable and lower value but saleable items are sorted for charities including clothing and bedding, bric-a-brac and clean furniture. Sometimes the only profit in a
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