In the suburbs of Atlanta there's a place the place you'll be able to buy a Norman Rockwell painting, a barbeque sandwich, and a tour bus suitable for a rock star all below one roof. Red Baron's Antiques hosts several weekend-long auctions every year which entice over a thousand interested consumers and antique fanatics from everywhere in the world. During a latest public sale weekend, HowStuffWorks was given a behind-the-scenes tour of Red Baron's Antiques auction home. Read on to learn more about the world of high-end auction homes. Red Baron's Antiques grew out of a really totally different form of enterprise. Bob and Linda Brown, Red Baron's house owners, opened a dress shop in 1976 and decorated the boutique with antiques Bob Brown had purchased at auctions. But earlier than that they had received their first dress they'd bought each antique in the shop. They decided to try their hand on the antique business. When their store became over-crowded with antiques, the Browns determined to carry their first auction.

They gathered the names of everyone they knew who may afford to spend a minimum of $500 and despatched them invitations to the first Pink Baron's Antiques Auction. Thirty years later every Crimson Baron public sale weekend generates approximately $20 million in sales. The bottom of the cross is a detailed mosaic of Vatican Square and the Coliseum. The Vatican Workshops produced the majority of Roman micromosaics. They have been common as a result of the tiny items of glass set in stone they used would last longer than other sorts of paintings in the setting of cathedrals. In accordance with Paul Brown, Purple Baron's Publisher and antiques guru, the trick to finding antiques is a combination of participating within the phrase-of-mouth antiques community and "beating the bush." Red Baron not often has problem locating and obtaining pieces