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.

Below is a guide I compiled and shared with the eBay community and am one of the top 5000 reviewers on eBay based on the usefulness of the guide. Hopefully it will help you get a pretty good idea of the age of your Bear Bow.

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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 started on a large lot of Barbies, most of which have some collector value. For those Barbie collectors out there you should watch these auctions to see if you have some of these treasures in your collection.

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In the next few days we will be listing this wonderful old Belber Wardrobe Trunk. Belber had locations in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This particular piece is probably circa 1920’s.

It is in remarkable condition despite the age. The only problem areas are the lock and snap on cover that covered the clothes hanger area. There is some wear to the outside and edges of the drawers but no real serious damage that we can see.

This will be a hot item to watch as we are starting the bidding at $9.99. Keep watching our auctions for this steamer / wardrobe trunk to start.

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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