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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português I’m no stock market investor but I do know one thing: if you want to make money, buy at the bottom of the market, not at its peak. Whether or not prices of antique furniture will fall further is open to speculation (and I [...]

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Recognise this spoof email? Dear valued eBay member, It has come to our attention that your eBay billing updates are out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. Once you have [...]

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John Lennon Lyrics A day in the Life, originally uploaded by Christopher Proudlove. There is something inherently sad about the sale of John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to the Beatles classic A Day in The Life. I was at the Sotheby’s sale in London in 1992 when they sold to an anonymous private collector for £56,500. [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português Poor St. Valentine. He probably never had a sweetheart of his own and he had absolutely nothing in common with lovers. He became their saint quite by chance. His story starts in Rome in about 271AD when the poor wretch was flung into prison [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português I’m a Lord of the Rings fan myself, so entreaties to join the family at the cinema to watch The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe over the holiday break fell on deaf ears. It sounds like it was my loss: the film received [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português Santa Claus was kind enough to place what could prove to be an extremely valuable book in my Christmas stocking: it’s called “Tim Wonnacott’s Moneymaking Antiques for the Future” and it was written by a collective of some of the leading lights in today’s [...]

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There is no shortage of ways to sell objects you own – and I’ve tried most of them, with differing results. One that I hope to use increasingly is the online auction. Before I do so, I intend to check out the recommendations listed here by the Federal Trade Commision and I suggest you do [...]

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Readers and fellow collectors might be interested to learn that the $20 dollar bill discussed in the post immediately before this sold in a Florida auction for a staggering $25,300. Matt Joyce of Associated Press has the full story which was published among other places in the Indianapolis Star.

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Banana-Note-2 When is a $20 bill worth $10,000 plus? When it’s found to be overprinted with a bright red, yellow and gree Del Monte fruit sticker apparently. The so-called “banana note” snuck out of Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, when checking precedures failed to spot the error. Daniel Wishnatsky of Phoenix paid [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português It’s all a matter of priorities, she kept telling me. In readiness for the festive season of television torpor, I fancied a new TV to replace our current valve set that is at least 18 years old. With seemingly hundreds of square feet of [...]

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David Pott has been selling his work on eBay for 10 months now. His blog ArtistsAnon: gives 10 Tips for Making a Living on eBay, as well as 7 Tips on How to Create Art That Sells on eBay. I can’t paint to save my life, but others might find David’s help invaluable.

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português As the nation recovers from the kind of hangover that happens only once a year, the Royal Society of Chemistry has come up with the answer: apparently the best treatment for the morning after is toast and honey. I have another answer. Get hold [...]

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