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The auto traders weren’t happy. One had paid £800 for his pitch, another £1,000 for a slightly bigger area, but the dealers in the area set aside for an autojumble had laid out just £200 apiece for arguably a more prominent position. “That’s because they’re selling old stuff, collectables and that,” said the harassed organiser [...]

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I’ve always fancied owning a crystal ball, not just because it would be useful in sidestepping horrible things that were about to befall me — and let’s face it we’ve all had enough of those thank you very much — but also because a genuine fortune teller’s crystal ball is a perfectly spherical, perfectly clear [...]

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I knew a man once who collected plastic shopping bags. He had examples from some of the most famous department stores and high-class shops from all around the world. He was a security guard and got himself sacked for petty pilfering … presumably the bags came in handy for carrying home his booty! He came [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s We tend not to think about it but given time, antiques collectors will look back on the first few decades of the 21st Century and marvel at how life was then, probably in much the same way that we do today about the 1920s [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português The new house is causing a problem: it’s just not conducive to anything older than antiques dating from the Twenties. This means that our old oak looks somewhat out of place and I dread to think what is going to happen to our Victorian [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português We shouldn’t have grumbled here last week about spiralling prices for examples of Clarice Cliff’s Bizarre pottery, having done so we seem to be surrounded by the stuff. First, we watched as one “lucky” buyer handed over a 100 notes at a North Wales [...]

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