{"id":35141,"date":"2025-05-29T23:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appraiseantiques.com\/?p=35141"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:52:52","slug":"flipping-for-profit-etc-fish-bookends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appraiseantiques.com\/flipping-for-profit-etc-fish-bookends\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping for Profit: ETC Fish Bookends"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a year in the dead of bitter winter in Northwestern Pennsylvania there used to be a 3-day indoor &acirc;&#8364;&#732;garage&acirc;&#8364;&#8482; sale in a mall building in a small town; it had been one of my favorite sales to go to each year for well over a decade.<br><br>One year was my best buying expedition ever.<br><br>Long and short, I spent approximately $70 there and yielded just over $1100!<br><br>The most exciting purchase that day was a pair of unassuming metal bookends. I could instantly see that they were hand forged and had a clear maker mark. So for $6, I figured I could not go wrong.<br><br>Imagine my surprise when I researched this mark and found the following information along with auction records of up to $1600 for a comparable pair of bookends by the same artist!!<br><br>My $6 book ends were made by a much sought after Arts &amp; Crafts Mission period style artisan named Edgar Thomas Cullen Fish. He is better known as &#8220;E.T.C. Fish&#8221; of Tioga, Pennsylvania. He used a letter F in a Heart mark &#8220;Because My Heart is in My Work&#8221;, he stated.<br><br>The brass metal was wrought into shape and then the surface was hammered in a signature ETC Fish style &#8211; one that resembles the appearance of the wood grain of birds-eye maple.<br><br>I priced my set at $1200 and received many offers, the more serious one&acirc;&#8364;&#8482;s being in the $300 &#8211; $400 range, which I initially turned down. 2 months later, when they still had not sold, I decided to accept the highest standing offer of $415 to a dealer from Tioga. 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