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Blog Post Chevron Cars Collectors
Who said toy cars are just for kids? not the Chevron Cars Collectors. The Chevron Cars are part of an advertising campaign of the Chevron Corporation consisting of television spots, prin...
Blog Post China - Mid 1800's
Wonderful collection of photographs by John Thomson, from  The World Art Museum, Taken in 1868 - 1871 I wish I could read Chinese since I couldn't find a paralel page in English, ...
Blog Post Ancient Artifacts Found in The Kalahari Desert
These artifacts are dated much earlier than any other worship artifact ever found, in fact they are dated prior to what is believed to be the period in which human being started to evolve practice...
Blog Post LEGO success.
Lego, officially trademarked LEGO, is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group. colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various ...
Blog Post The Collection of Your Dreams!
Owlscrying brought this interesting info: Lisbon Portugal — Archaeologists excavating a site in northeastern Portugal discovered 4,500 ancient Roman coins tucked away inside a wall. The...
Blog Post American Civil War Toy Collection
Tim Abbott has one of the most accurate and best quality American civil war toy collection. A good collection of historical nature has to be both accurate in the details and of good quality ...
Blog Post Auction your artifacts on eBay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to it...
Blog Post Claremont Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century
Summer is on us, and so is the bathing suit  season, of which perils I will not elaborate here, only to say that I would much rather deal with what goes with wearing current bathing suits than h...
Blog Post Innovative Weapons Collection from German Prison Inmates
There is nothing like necessity to inspire invention - as the old saying goes - Necessity - the mother of all invention. through in a lot of boredom, some desperation and lots and lots of time, an...
Blog Post Gold in the Hawaiian islands
There are many stories in the State of Hawaii archives that tell of Pirates that landed on any one of our islands back in the 1500 - early 1900's.  Here is one site that tells of a couple of lan...
Blog Post Ebay auction for an unused Zero M Sonic Blaster
Blame it on the cold war, blame it on James Bond, blame it on the Bossa Nova... say what you will, but the 60's were the birthplace of some of the coolest secret agent toys. Hideously dangerous, l...
Blog Post The World As It Is Seen From Time And Place Distance
I read recently two different posts on two different blogs but they both led me to think about what the perspective of time and place does to our representation of reality. The first is here and...
Blog Post The Personal Connection And The Collector's Life
I was thinking recently of all the people that I have met and befriended because of my collections. When I first started I knew no one else that shared my interest and passion but after the first yea...
Blog Post Starting To Read Again
I've neglected my book collection for some time now as I found it harder to find good books that I like not only to have but to actually read. The first stage was when I felt less interested in re...
Blog Post The Walker Evens Archive on Show At the Met Through May 25
Nine thousand picture postcards amassed by American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) are among the fascinating works in The Walker Evans Archive, acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in...
Blog Post Interview with Ephemera's Marty Weil
One of the most interesting blogs about collectibles of Sorts is Ephemera Written by Marty Weil, which focuses on ephemera. Marty has interviewed over 100 collectors, and has researched and...
Blog Post The Story Of A Very Special Collection
Reading the interview of Rebecca Martz on the Ephemera blog I realized that the decision to start a collection can be a result of almost anything. I have been collecting since 1991. One d...
Blog Post Bad Morals.
Having Cake and Eating it too: Unrecorded and Freshly Dug British Coins Sold in the USA an enlightning article on the grey area in coin collections.
Blog Post "Secret Origins of 'Random Acts of Geekery'"
 This is a guest post by Jon B. Knutson, Author of Random Acts of Geekery . If you haven't checked it out yet, you owe it to yourself to pop over the minute you finish reading this. S...
Blog Post Earliest know Dust Cover Discovered in Oxford
Friendship's Offering, the earliest known dust jacket, newly rediscovered by the Bodleian library . Photograph: PR According to the UK Guardian a surprising discovery was made at Oxfords ...
Blog Post Are You Into Vintage Photos
I'm following for some time now the vintage photos market through blogs such as Swapatorium . My first reaction seeing these items were O.K they are nice to look on from time to time b...
Blog Post Unusual Maps
photo credit creative common license caveman 92223 We all know that the truth is subjective and that each of us has our own unique and completely true point of view about everything under th...
Blog Post Of Times Past
Have you ever thought of a typewriter as a collectible? I haven't and to be quite frank, I am surprised at that. I grew up on the brink of the digital High tech age, and for most of my teen age ye...
Blog Post Bookplate Junkie
A bookplate, also known as ex-librīs, is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner. Bookplates typically bear a name or...
Blog Post Thunderbirds Cigar Bands from 1968
This has got to be the most bizarre collectors Item I have ever seen (or close to). The are exactly what they look like - Thunderbirds cigar bands (yes, the tough flying waring good looking pupp...
Blog Post For The New Collector
If you are getting into the collecting hobby and want to learn from someone else experience you might want to try this book My book The Greatest Collecting Tips in the World is finally out an...
Blog Post Collecting Cute Things
I've just stumbled upon a really nice blog of tikiranch who collects Advertising figures which is something that I've never thought of collecting but after seeing them on his blog I remembered ...
Blog Post The World Of Ecommerce Explained
Most of us reach the stage when we need to sell or buy an item online. It can be eBay or it can be through numerous number of different auction houses. If you are a little slow like me you wou...
Blog Post Experience The Thrill Of Collecting Bookplates
If you are a true collectors in your heart I'm sure you'll find the collection of bookplates addictive. The combination of the really beautiful rare designs, the smells and feelings of this old b...
Blog Post The Mission Of Collecting A Guest Post On Ephemera
Thank you Marty for this chance to write a few words on your blog. Throughout the history people and institutions have been collecting things that were part of a story. The ancient libraries and...
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