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Showing results 21 - 30 of 35 for the tag: Thom Pattie.
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Diminutive Audio Equipment as Collectible (2/23/08)
 Musical toys are some of the most sought-after audio equipment in avant garde music genres. This phenomenon has made primitive, electronic instruments into collectibles. In addition to the sheer novelty of collecting poor quality, low-fi objects, the idea of toy keyboards from the eighties as collectibles speaks to the high-speed rate of progress in audio.
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Celebrity Collectors (2/11/08)
 Just learned after reading the ‘Personality Parade’ in Parade magazine for December 16, 2007 that Emily Procter, the blonde on ‘CSI: Miami’ collects exotic bugs. That certainly fits her role as a crime scene investigator, very sciency.
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Magna Carta For Sale (2/5/08)
 Recently, a historical document made big news when it surpassed all estimates at auction. Sotheby’s conducted the sale of the …
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Tools of the Trade (1/30/08)
 While sailors, carpenters, doctors, masons, and farmers all have tools designed specifically for their needs, spies and detectives seem to have the best tools. Like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, you too can have a set of tools that will help you be a sleuth – as a furniture, art and decorative arts detective.
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Gone in 45 seconds… (1/30/08)
 Everyone is fascinated by the auctioneers’ chant and wonders, “What do they do when they’re not selling items at auction? Do they have a real job? They only work 4 to 8 hours a week! They really have it easy!”
Today’s auctioneer is far more involved in the making and breaking of an auction and the company’s success than you could ever imagine.
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Movie and Television Merchandise as Collectibles (1/27/08)
 The box office tally isn’t the whole story of a film’s profit margin – “It’s the merchandise, silly.” So says Mel Brooks in his 1987 science fiction parody Spaceballs, as his character displays merchandise from the film – within the film – including bed sheets and a cereal box.
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Postcards (1/11/08)
 Vintage and antique postcard collecting can be an enjoyable trip through time and space. American, Canadian, and European postcards are en vogue and are a lot of fun to hunt for at auctions online and in shops. The technical term for postcard collecting is deltiology. It’s one of the most popular collectibles.
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Falling Prices Mean More Bang (1/10/08)
 Now is the time to buy antiques and collectables. Some of the greatest collections have been assembled when the economy and antique market were down. Henry Frances DuPont amassed one of the greatest collections of Americana during the Great Depression, which are now on display at the Winterthur in Delaware.
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Baby Boomers Vs. The Disposable Society (12/11/07)
 In being a part of the grey haired generation a baby boomer and the generation of asking “why?” to everything. I have grown perplexed in trying to understand my children’s generation “The Disposable Generation”.
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