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DELAND COMMON SENSE

ANTIQUE SHOPS & MORE
ANTIQUES

By Fred Taylor
ANGEVINE’S
FINE SILVER, INC.
Over 30,000 Pieces of Sterling FURNITURE MISTAKES
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A Busy 20 Century
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Asparagus Servers to Sardine Forks
Baby Cups to Tea Services John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was an English economist with an
3 2899 S. Woodland Blvd. unusual sense of humor - for an economist. One of his sayings was “Everything
4 4 DeLand, FL 32720 ultimately degenerates to work.” Another was “In the long run we are all dead.”

386-734-3553 The first is highly debatable. The second is not.
M-F 10AM-5PM; SAT 10AM-4PM Despite his humor he is best known for his macroeconomic theories that
Purchase on the web at: favored copious government spending and deficits to enrich an economy.
www.angevinesfinesilver.com His theory was that a growing economy would erase all deficits. Keynes met
1 his long run in 1946 and most of the bureaucrats who imposed Keynesian
economic theories on our economy in the 1960s have too. But those of us left
ANGEVINE’S JEWELRY, INC. still bear the burden of those failed economic policies of fifty years ago. Have
Graduate Gemologist, GIA you checked the deficit lately?
Fine selection of Antique, Estate The furniture industry, as well as the economy, has made a number of faulty
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them in the 20 century. Those of us left in the market struggle to cope with
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Family Owned & Operated One of the industry’s mistakes in the early 20th century was the
Since 1959 development of “borax” furniture. Borax was a disparaging name used to
Hours M-F 10-5, Sat. 10-1 describe some of the inexpensively made but showy furniture of the early
2899 S. Woodland Blvd. Depression era. It was an effort to provide an affordable, attractive product
DeLand, FL that fit the economic conditions of the time, but the products of that effort now
dflawless@embarqmail.com haunt many owners of inherited family heirloom treasures.
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