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Meir Appel - Menorah Galleries. Ari Samet Talk #001
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AST#001 In the midst of Manhattan, there’s a place called Menorah Galleries where Meir Apel displays beautiful antique Judaica including Menorahs, Megilahs, and whatever else has been in ancient Jewish history. Let's go down together and have a look at his growing business and beautiful collection and hear his story as he takes us along on the journey. www.menorahgalleries.com --------------- Episode sponsored by: Chick And Chuck. www.chicknchuck.com
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but it contained
no i just can't afford no
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hot
item so
this is specially made for somebody who
wants to have something
out of this world somebody who
is
foreign
the price on it is 168 000
wow
but this is something else there is the
exhibit is a shape
this has cut out on a paper
like in the lyrics
um
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so besides the gallery over the auction
house uh
this is online instead of our website
bitspirit.com
our live auctioneers mccann dot and bit
and this guy we need to try to hold this
guy
mr expense review
yeah that's what i love i love buying i
love going for the haunted
house so that's my elite girlfriend
yes that's what i call success
know for me it was interesting so
dartmouth
um i would say that i showed interest
for silver without any service antique
silver coins
paintings and uh basically when i'm
gonna use
well without them i wouldn't be here
well so
it was a team effort hey push me the
guild
you have mana mistakes i need to help me
can get out of it
and uh i'm proud to have an art gallery
on madison avenue
well well and he's got locations father
the ground level and two underground so
i was in the basement
uh well i think now i'll mention of the
gas camera i can't do so better
well well um
wow that interesting event
um
you start to look at it it looks
beautiful but when you take a deeper
look
you see that it's not that old so we got
let's say
from the sierras
i offered them 30 000 to sell it to me i
knew i can sell it
good okay but would take i studied
first of all he didn't have the
techniques was there artists that can
it's fine that you fire them
so also the missile sloppies
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is the the focus the blind focus there's
the health and success house listings
got c4 challenges
exactly i live it i breed it every
minute
this is this is my everything otherwise
i wouldn't be here
excited
for finding something that you have in
the museum how to say
i like the zaya collection
you know you got this you have success
and against the smackdown
it was going to expand and grass
i was always ambitious i wasn't afraid
sitting there i know i have 30 days to
pay
i don't know yes
you know you're going to an auction to a
rhythm and you want to buy you want to
get it and if you're getting out of it
let me get in my hands there's going
to be a certain mentions they want they
want the item
it's not about the money sometimes it's
about the item it's the original way
that that means
no it's it's you that after so many
years
you are the one that needs to needs to
know
how much are you willing to pay for it
so you need to make your
calculations esha a schreider's
going one's going twice and you need to
make a calculation plus commission for
the auction of 25 percent so let's say
an item alba thousand dollars
so is that's when i wanna be so
following
all them in that month
i sold most of those items
in that month and sometimes it's gonna
sit for years
why because i had the clients where it
was i'm sorry
you gotta live it and breed it to make a
choice
wow wow
why not you can have more than one
business
but this made a business you gotta put
only focus on it
so i'm trying to do things around that
finish can stop setting up
and we got tablet and checks so having a
gallery is one thing
but then about the auction house and
then i've got the heads of a
major project this is basically as
a amazon for the judaica section
well like anything and everything
somebody wants in judaica is this a
cypher toyota i'm a gila
a painting philippe schmelzer i'm
painting for any artist
because i don't know if leap is going to
be on board but the idea is
every artist with camera dot for
questions on arts
wow
i don't know i don't know what
anyone has another no
you gotta be in the industry in order to
away from something like a verified
you gotta you gotta write up exactly
what you're selling so the buyer
it's basically
it's going to be something unique about
it so it's basically this cell cellulose
kind of a coiffuse cycle
so i'm working on this website having
high ups on that
wow and the liberty gear exists which
has the liberty
yeah the sound of it on the benefit was
one he'll know
who buys it maybe he can make a contact
with the seller and uh
but the shipping the sellers will be the
ones right she has an option from
bidding
i will also be one of those no bidding
just buy it
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related to their items multi-source
wow um
that's interesting the amazon left wow
it's more interesting that's here the
the the the
does that expand the
industry the the audience the buyers the
service
and the seat finals you can skim it
around like now
yes absolutely for lakewood to do
actually people that got into it
and the five towns you have a lot and
believe it or not and villains we can
buy a bike
especially with the sweden because we
use
it's it's the hottest new thing
you know they want to back us through
them
yeah so they mean
listen if you know what you do no it's
not about if you know what you do
it's being ambitious you gotta jump in i
once bought a gallery manhattan learning
invasive in the 1950s
so you guys in the market for a couple
of months
nobody bought it nobody
the prize went down this is not this
hydration in the market
and you might have held customers nobody
bought it
until i took pen and paper pictures from
the entire gallery
that's in thousands of items
how much can i sell this one and that
one on that one
so at the end of the day i took out
a very small portion of items from the
youngster
and he basically i stayed with the
entire with the entire store
wow wow so then they feel ambitious you
got to be ambitious you got to wake up
in the morning you got to run around you
got to
you got to take flights you got to you
got to get everywhere you got to know a
lot of people
you know it travels to sacramento
but certain expensive items is always
better to see in person and not on the
photo
2001 what's this helping in the hand you
want to feel the silhouette there's a
stack out sign that you want
you want to see it off a picture kevin
obviously you know you have contact
yes you send over other people for you
well
addy if you can have right now any food
that you ever dreamed of
but one what would you pick fish
attacker fish fish fish
i would go for the fish
fish
favorite food the number two so i'm
saying number one would have been
martella
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of course like lesbian
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why not beautiful
so you know as of time is going to go
as of time is going to go you're going
to be a genius and then like
i don't like in that room for antiques
i will be this eagle that will
spawn fish in the water against them
because this is
as of time is going to go you wrong to
be a genius in them
you