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These are the things you could find at Garvey's. The Frankton antique shop in Commerce Street has stayed the same for 50 years, but its contents have come and gone. English yew wood leather top partner's desk. July 10 marked his golden anniversary. Vintage lamps light up the engraved patterns of a wooden box. Owner Patrick Garvey identifies it as Chinese, made of camphor wood. With a store full of wooden objects, he is a connoisseur of the material. They are tactile companions of his craft. "That's English yew wood, Robin Hood used to make his bows out of it," he says while stroking a leather top partners desk. Harrods two drawer serving table. There is New Zealand Southland beech, ancient kauri and not so ancient walnut. Mahogany and oak dominate. "I always liked the nice old good-quality stuff. I was cabinet-making before I was in here, so we used to make a lot of this sort of stuff out of solid timber." Strong mahogany is a best-seller, not your typical modern furniture made of chipboard - "Weet-Bix", Garvey calls it.

"If you put chipboard on a plate and poured milk on it, you could eat it." Garvey was 21 when he bought the store. Full of junk, he was left to sort the best from the worst. He was clearing it out, taking loads to the dump, when he stumbled on a painting and decided to spare it. "I found out five years after I didn't throw it out that it was a genuine (Henry William) Kirkwood. And I'm quite pleased I kept it." He might know better now, but most do not. He discovers treasures all the time when asked to value job lots. Early New Zealand ornamental Crown Lynn swans are a good example. They were once $30, but after years of being thrown out or broken, they are now quite rare and very sought after, going for around $250 each. "People haven't any idea what stuff is worth sometimes. The Antique Roadshow on telly has been quite good for us guys, because it makes people aware how good a quality the old stuff was, and how the new stuff is all the same, the same, the same, the same,

We're recycling the past." An oak bookcase, a rare walnut table from Harrods in London, and a grand display cabinet fill the space. Collecting pieces is better than money in the bank, Garvey says. "In the early days, I had to deal in much more mundane stuff to make a crust, like heaters and cots and radios and high chairs. "But I always liked this stuff and I've got more and more and more until finally I've got a whole shop full of it." Two male passers-by are lured in, meandering through the history of item after item. "Everyone loves this stuff," Garvey says. "We deal in practical, useful things like desks, lamps, chairs, tables. We don't sort of go too much outside that. But it's got to be nice." The first thing he looks for when buying an item is style. "It's got to look good," Garvey says. "It can be old, it can be in good order, it can be genuine, but I don't like the look of it. "First, it's got to have style." Quality and potential as an investment come next.

A couple from out of town stop in to get Garvey's advice and he reiterates this mantra. "My job is to tell them what the things are worth and what present day values are on it. We're very careful on what we buy." He photographs everything that comes in and displays the pictures around the room as a record of the pieces that have come and gone. A barley twist oak umbrella stand catches the eye, as does a Southland beech tallboy, an English leather chair and an Art Deco lamp. A 1960s lounge suite with the original brocade cloth looks fresh from the era. Garvey said good chairs sell well, as do nice lamps, which are too complicated to make now due to their intricate fringe and shaping. Grandfather clocks are popular but hard to find because people hold on to them, he said. Quite a lot has changed over the years. "The worst things which have dropped off the list are like brass, gold, EPNS (electro plated nickle) silver, a lot of china and a lot of the Victorian furniture has gone down.

We only buy stuff that is going to go up." Crystal has also declined, but crystal bowls, vases, decanters and jugs are still sellable, he said. Dark wood was once the trend and lighter colours were even stained to fit the swing. Nowadays, the modern craze is French decor. "A lot of people are buying this imported French stuff and that is light coloured," Garvey says. "The Victorian choclate-bown stuff is not that popular now. What used to sell for $2800 is now worth about $600-$700. So, if you don't know what you're doing in this game, you just go broke. "In here, we still are sticking to what we've been dealing in for 50 years because it still sells." Garvey said antique was the most raped and abused word in the English language. It once meant anything handmade prior to 1880, but an antique can now be any collectable object that has a high value because of its age and quality. He also said it's wrong for people to think they need an old house to accompany the old furniture.