Michael & Ginger
Welcome you to
Worldofantiques
We are located in Crawfordsville, Indiana
And here we are, Ginger and Michael
Michael is English and Ginger is American.
Ginger works full time and is a five times published author of large text books about working in the travel industry for colleges.
I attend local estate auctions looking for interesting items to list on ebay and do the packing and posting.
Here is a link to a recent newspaper article about my life:
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Despite having an arm and a leg paralysed following a brutal attack by a hammer 30 years ago, I ran an antique shop in Malvern UK as well as sold at many top antique fairs there. However, the strain of 15 years of unloading furniture, silver and china and setting up 6 tables full of goodies proved too much of a strain for my working side.
I therefore retrained in computing, but whilst doing this discovered that many severely disabled people could benefit from my help. Their disabilities included being wheelchair users, inability to speak, hear, see, use their arms etc yet having great minds and personalities.
I obtained a lottery grant to pay my expenses and spent 2 years teaching them to become more inclusive through the use of computers. This, however, left me financially unstable, so I decided it was time for me again, hence back to antiques, but this time with less physical strain!
Thus ebay. We shall be looking for unusual and good quality antiques and collectibles as well as scouring the local auctions and estate sales.
Ginger and I were married in Crawfordsville on July 10th 2003 (that is the correct date, honey, isn't it?) and Michael has his permanent resident visa and social security number. Which means he can now work. Darn it! ;-)
On the fourth page of our
website you will find many links to our adventures in this world including
pictures of English towns and villages dating back 1000 years.
Ginger is a quietly (unlike me!) talented woman. She
was a teacher for 15 years at a post secondary private school
teaching world geography and airline reservation computer systems. She is also a
five times published author of text books for the travel industry. Perhaps her
greatest accomplishment, however is putting up with me and packing mountains of
ebay items after a hard day's work 25 miles away!
