The Story about Great Stuff By Paul Antiques and other Great Stuff.

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How it all began....
I started Great Stuff about 20 years ago, selling antique trunks which I refinished completely. (I still have many of these trunks.) About 6 years ago, I started buying different kinds of merchandise to sell.

One day, a friend asked me if I was interested in helping helping him purchase a large number of antique wagons that he was to have shipped from Europe. Fortunately, I decided to do it and from there started my current practice of buying large quantities of unique antiques from all over the world.

One of the ways I sold my merchandise was by hitting the road and displaying my wares at antique shows all around the country. My display was noticeably different from the others because I made sure to bring - you guessed it - large quantities. At one of the shows, some folks from Country Living happened by and took notice of my display.

They mentioned that it was interesting enough to mention in an upcoming issue of the magazine, and took a number of photographs. When the photographs were shown to the Editor, she found them so intriguing that she decided to run a large, multi-page write-up of Great Stuff by Paul in the March 1999 issue. The rest is history.

The phone rang off the hook, sometimes ringing a couple of hundred times a day. If I didn't really have Great Stuff, the story would have ended there. But as all those people who called and checked us out found, we DO have Great Stuff, and lots of it! Great Stuff by Paul was featured in many other magazines, and continued to grow. (Click here to see some of the magazines we've been featured in.)

As my business kept increasing I kept buying more and more in larger quantities, and ran out of space to put it all. Also, my customers wanted to buy from me without having to wait for me to come to their area. So three years ago, I bought a very old building built in 1840 in Frederick, Maryland and moved in. Click here to find out more about the stores.

We continue to grow and provide more and more Great Stuff to retail customers, dealers, decorators, and others around the world. To those of you who we've done business with, thank you! To those of you who we have not yet done business with, we look forward to it!