Abstract
The business of selling antiques is a popular arena in which modern Americans curate much of the country’s cultural patrimony, define what is important and valuable about the national past, and decide the condition of the things that will survive into the future. A study of the antiques market in Lincoln, Nebraska reveals how the trade in antiques organizes and presents widely dispersed goods with a . marketing channel composed of four steps that can be described as suifacing, picking, dealing, and matchmaking. These steps add different kinds of value to the objects they handle and operate with distinctive strategies.
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