Having been selling on eBay for over 10 years, being listed as an official Trading Assistant on eBay’s website and offering professional eBay selling services for over 3 years we are always asked “What sells on eBay?” and the easiest and exciting answer is everything! Of course this doesn’t help you so what we like to do is find out what you have to sell. This gives us the opportunity to research your items to determine the saleability and profitability of your treasures.

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Think of a metal photograph. The tintype is a photographic process developed in the United States. It was invented by Professor Hamilton Smith of the Kenyon College, Ohio in 1856 and patented on February 19, 1856. Tintype is also know as ferrotype or melainotype.

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Would you believe that an empty toy box could sale on eBay for $50.00? What about $100.00 or even $250.00? How about over $400.00?

Well it’s true and this is the story.

Where our business is located (inside of Piccolo Antique Mall) there are several dealers and lots of really one-of-a-kind items. This particular item was not located here in the business but did belong to a dealer that has 2 spaces here. She found this box when she moved into the house some 30 years ago and always felt that she needed to keep it for some reason. Well last night after 7 days on ebay she found out what that reason was.

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Here is a story of a 1859 Indian Head Penny that was hidden away in a loose collection of coins one of our clients brought in. It was found inside of a little plastic sandwich bad folded up and paper clipped. When I first opened it up was was almost immediately struck by the lack of wear on this coin. Having pursued this as a hobby (coin collecting) many many years ago, I was very excited to see this coin in what appeared to be almost mint stat.

In the coin world, graded and slabbed coins always tend to bring higher market prices than loose coins. After a quick search on eBay this was definitely the case with this particular coin.

After talking with our client we decided that to have the best shot at a high return on the sell that this coin needed to be graded and slabbed by an approved eBay Coin Grading company. The $30.00 investment and time to wait for its return should prove to drastically increase the sale price of this coin.

Keep watching our site for more information on the ‘life’ of this coin and start checking your old change or a small collection of old US coins that have been passed down or given to you. We will be more than happy to research the coins you may have.

Going to talk about camera’s for just a brief second. We’re getting asked about or see quite a few camera’s so we thought we could share with you what our research is showing us. Who knows you may have one of these gems sitting in your closet.

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I wonder how many people today still use doorstops. I Found this excerpt of an article on The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Website.

“Doorstops were produced in Europe as early as the late 1700s, but became more widely manufactured beginning in the early nineteenth century in Europe, particularly in Victorian England and France. Doorstops were needed to keep doors open to insure the circulation of air, and to guard against the door being blown shut.”

Must have been a drafty time back then if doors were being guarded to prevent being blown shut all the time

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This month we have had a few collections that we are selling through. While not everything in a collection of like items are going to fetch top dollar, it has been our experience that there are, almost always, some items that will.

But it always goes back to demand and uniqueness of the item or collection. For example, Beanie Babies, at this time, have totally been devalued and you do well to give them away on eBay. In this particular case, once the manufacturer saw the demand and eagerness of buyers they made more. The more they made the less the items are worth, even as a “collectible”. There are always exceptions to the rule, even with Beanie Babies, and depending on the type of collection it’s sometimes not worth researching each and ever item so it does pay to know your collection. While most Beanie Babies will not do well on eBay there are still some Beanie Babies that do bring top dollar.

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A consistent seller on eBay is Sterling Silver, While the driving price on sterling silver is the price of silver on the market (as of today it is $14.60 / oz) some pieces exceed the market value of silver, especially antique sterling and certain patterns of flatware in sterling silver.

Remember, Sterling is .925 Pure, that means it is 92.5% Silver and is marked either with the word ‘Sterling’ or the numeric ‘925′ mark. The other 7.5% is a hardening agent, which is usually copper, because pure silver is too soft to use for objects such as flatware.

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