Cleaning Ancient Coins INTRODUCTION The first step in cleaning ancient coins is to acquire some. Ancient coins are those older than medieval times and some of the most plentiful are from the Byzantine Empire....
New to buying Clarice Cliff? Or perhaps you'd like to try your hand at collecting. This is a basic guide to some possible first steps in collecting Clarice Cliff. STARTING COLLECTING You'd like to...
History Of Association Football (Soccer) On Cigarette Cards I've been collecting and selling collectors cards and cigarette cards for over twenty years. Before you read this guide please subscribe to my card...
Counterfeit Coins, Forgeries, Fakes, Copies, Restrikes, Reproductions Shortly after the first coin was made, almost 3,000 years ago, someone produced the first copy or counterfeit. Counterfeiting has...
Gold Coins Four millennia of gold coin production and use - a brief history.The First Gold Coins Lydia 643 BC In about 643 to 630 B.C., the Lydians had started to produce the first coins. They were quite...
THE FACTORY -WMF ( Wurttembergische Metallwaren Fabrik ) The firm WMF were producing metal ware in different styles: * Classical * Art Nouveau ( Jugendstil ) * Art Deco * Celtic / Viking revival * Bauhaus...
Hi, and welcome. If you find this Guide interesting and or helpful, please give it a vote, many thanks, S The sun cross /sun wheel is as it sounds a cross that is inside a circle. It's beginnings go way back...
We - Davoc and Anne Rynne in Irish-Celt - wallow in Irish made items from another era – a real flavour of the past – something to remind all the Irish exiles, emigrants, wanderers and travellers of the old...
Everybody who eBays probably is familiar with Weird Al Yankovich's "What I Bought On eBay" parody of the Backstreet Boys' "I want It That Way" from his album "Poodle Hat". But do you know how many other...
If you are buying off ebay consider the following: 1. Is it real? 2. Does the seller have any proof? IE Genuine photo and not a copied one!!! 3. Search other similar listings and make sure you are not...