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John Reinhart - Atlanta Antique Furniture Hauler
John Reinhart (MyHart) |
Welcome to MyHart.net my name is John Reinhart. I am the owner and webmaster of this website which features Atlanta antiques and live North Georgia auctions. As mentioned on the homepage of MyHart.net. I first built this website to promote antiques, collectibles and antique furniture. Which I bought and hauled to Metro Atlanta to sell at live antique auctions located near Cumming, Georgia. To create the name My Hart I used the last four letters of my name "Hart" which is the reason for the spelling. I am known on the web simply as "MyHart" on most of the webmaster forums that I participate in. |
If you have visited Atlanta's antique shows or upscale antique malls over the past 14 years? You have probably admired many pieces of elegant American antique furniture that I am responsible for bringing into the Atlanta marketplace.
Elegant Antique Furniture My best guess is that this furniture may well number over 50,000 individual pieces? To reach this figure required my driving over 750,000 miles. Plus my financing of 2 semi loads of antique furniture each month for several years which were sold at My Hart Auctions, Inc. 
Semi Load Antique Furniture Arriving Near Cumming, GA Over the years I have attended thousands of auctions. First as a young boy with my Father in the 1950's when he went to farm and estate auctions. As a teenager during the 1960's I would hunt for box lots containing watches. Generally not paying more than 10 cents for any of these boxes which often contained several wristwatches. My first memory of bidding on a piece of antique furniture was when I was about 16 years old. I bid 25 cents on a nice Hoosier cabinet in varnish. However after bidding I experienced my first taste of buyer's remorse! In my heart I knew my that my Dad was not going to be happy with me as we only had our car to haul the Hoosier kitchen cabinet home with. Luckily after what seemed like an eternity someone else bid. Wow I was off the hook though as I now look back to those simpler times. What a truly great buy getting that Hoosier cabinet at auction for 25 cents would have been! 
Antique Oak Furniture During in the early 1970's I started buying antique furniture in earnest. Attending as many local Ohio estate auctions as possible in search of antique oak furniture. At that time there were several antique dealers from California who hauled semi tractor trailer loads of "Turn of the Century" oak from Ohio to California on a monthly basis. Once in California this antique oak furniture would be sold either at antique auctions or at local antique shops. During the mid 1970's I traveled to California to visit antique shops and attend a couple large antique auctions in the Los Angeles area. Turn of the century oak furniture was still quite plentiful in the Midwest and I was considering hauling it to California rather than wholesale it in Ohio. I was quite surprised (shocked) at the difference in furniture prices that I found! Many pieces of quality turn of the century oak were selling for about five times a much in California as Ohio. As an example an oak serpentine dresser with mirror that wholesaled in Ohio for $50 was commanding $250 at auction in California. In the mid 1970s gas was quite cheap as compared to today. If I remember correctly gasoline sold for around 33 cents a gallon. So the cost of fuel wasn't a major issue in my decision to haul furniture and antiques. However I learned that the auction company that I was considering hauling to had a problem paying their haulers for their consignments. With one hauler threatening to drive his rig through the auction house if he wasn't paid. Well that was the end of my wanting to haul furniture to California! Sadly not being paid for antique consignments by an auction company owner is not all that uncommon! It's a problem that I have experienced several times over the years that I have hauled antiques and furniture out of state. I remember when I breifly hauled antiques and furniture from Ohio to Chicago. One of the owners of the auction company that I dealt with couldn't be found when it came time to pay me for my antique consignment. After lots of phone calls I finally located his partner who did his best to make it right with me. Though I ended up having to take some of his personal furniture as partial payment. Luckly in that instance I was able to recover most of what was owed me! |