Three Steps To Investment Success:
Buying the Right Art, Antiques, and Collectibles
By Scott Zema
Published: 2007
Publisher: Ark Limited
Anyone can profit from buying art, antiques, and collectibles if you think of them as investments, writes Scott Zema in his new book Three Steps To Investment Success: Buying the Right Art, Antiques, and Collectibles. Instead of losing money on foolish purchases, your collections can increase dramatically in value if you follow some important rules. The author provides those rules, and helps the collection investor to avoid the mistakes and misconceptions that haunt the art and antique markets.
Professional art and antique appraiser Scott Zema brings his many years of experience to the book. Scott pulls no punches about how people need to change the way they view their collections, and how they consider their additional acquisitions of art and antiques. The traditional advice, dispensed by art dealers and friends alike, that art and antiques are not to be treated as investments is turned on its head. The author shows the reader, step by step, how to make a profit from collecting items of lasting beauty and value.
Scott Zema (photo left) sets out the book into three distinct parts. Taken together, the three sections provide an entire course for buying the right art, antiques, and collectibles. The first part of the book dispels the myths and misconceptions that cause art buyers to make costly mistakes. The second section of the book places emphasis on educating yourself on the value of buying the right antiques and art objects. The third portion of the book discusses in detail how to profit from art and antiques as solid money making investments.
For me, the power of the book is in the no nonsense primer in collecting as an investment. Instead of dispensing platitudes about buying for enjoyment, Scott Zema takes a business approach to buying and selling quality art, antiques, and collectibles for a profit. The author blows the usual misconceptions about art out of the water, with real world examples, demonstrating where people have gone wrong with their collections. He then proceeds to show the reader how to seek quality art items as an investment portfolio.
I highly recommend Three Steps To Investment Success: Buying the Right Art, Antiques, and Collectibles by Scott Zema for anyone who is serious about purchasing quality art, antiques, and collectibles as an investment. With art prices rising constantly, a solid and well chosen collection can increase in value substantially, providing a powerful and diversified portfolio option.
Read Three Steps To Investment Success: Buying the Right Art, Antiques, and Collectibles by Scott Zema and you will never look at art and antiques in the same way again. You will seek to acquire quality investment opportunities, instead of over paying for expensive junk. That knowledge alone makes the book a worthwhile investment for anyone.
