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 Are you into antiques? Maybe that old furniture up in the attic is worth something. Or perhaps collectibles is your thing -- glass, pottery, dolls, firearms. Whatever's of interest in the world of antiques, you'll find it here.
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Published March 29, 2007 by BBC News--www.news.bbc.co.uk
Bond author's gun fetches £12,000
A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.
The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.
It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.
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Published March 15, 2007 by BBC News--news.bbc.co.uk
Rare atlas auctioned for £670,000
A rare copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales has sold for £669,600 at a Sotheby's auction.
The work, by the Wakefield surveyor Christopher Saxton, also has a rare set of charts depicting Sir Francis Drake's journey to the West Indies and America.
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Published February 27, 2007 by The Independent -- www.news.independent.co.uk
US baseball card sells for £1.2million
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The "Holy Grail of US baseball cards," the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2.35million (£1.2million).
The anonymous buyer has only been identified as a Southern California collector.
There are about 60 of the tobacco cards in existence featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, one of the first five players to be inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame.
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This could happen to you!! ... Well, maybe not ....
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Published by CBC.ca Dec. 14, 2005
'Antiques Roadshow' find sells at London auction
CBC Arts
A Vancouver woman has sold a Victorian masterpiece she inherited from her parents at auction in London for more than $300,000.
Henry Nelson O'Neil's Eastward Ho!, August 1857 sold at a Sotheby's auction of Victorian and Edwardian art Tuesday. An anonymous telephone buyer bought the mid-19th century piece for 164,800 British pounds (about $336,500, including buyer's premium) — just slightly more than the high end of Sotheby's pre-sale estimate.
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Christmas Card Sold at Auction
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From www.chicagotribune.com
1843 Christmas card auctioned for $16,000
Published December 4, 2005
LONDON, BRITAIN -- A 162-year-old Christmas card, one of the first ever printed, sold at auction Saturday for $16,000.
The hand-colored card, which shows a family celebrating around a table, is one of about 10 surviving from an original batch of 1,000 printed in 1843, the auctioneer said.
The cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, a Londoner who generally is recognized as the inventor of the commercial Christmas card.
The card was bought at the auction by Jakki Brown, general secretary of the Greeting Card Association.
The card originally was sent to a Miss Mary Tripsack, a close friend of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the wife of poet Robert Browning.
Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune
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Some Paper Dolls Could Have Value
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Published by Herald-Dispatch.com Nov. 27, 2005
ANTIQUES: Paper dolls from childhood could be treasure in your attic
As a child, I use to wait eagerly for my mother's McCall's magazine to be delivered. Inside would be a wonderful treat, the latest Betsy McCall paper doll and her fashionable wardrobe of the month.
Mother would help me cut it out to add to the previous month's collection.
I remember many a happy hour playing with my paper dolls -- and Betsy McCall in particular.
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