7 Secrets to Spreading Your Influence for More Traffic and Sales

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Bonhams Fine & Rare Wines sale – 9th February 2012

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Hampstead’s connections with Indian Art in the spotlight at Bonhams this June

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Skinner Auction of Prints, Photographs, Paintings and Sculptures to Feature American Modernist Paintings, Prints, and Fine Works on Paper

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New homes unveiled in Colindale

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Personalized Social Search Still Years Away

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2011 06:00 Written by External Post Monday, 19 December 2011 06:00

To a very limited extent, it’s already happening. But if former Bing product lead Mark Johnson is right, it’s going to be a long time before we see much more progress in that area. If every user that comes [to Bing or Google] is getting a personalized experience based on Facebook data, based on the web graph, based on the social graph – holy crap, that’s a lot of processes to do, Johnson notes. He’s quoted by Austin Carr in an article for Fast Company. To Johnson, it’s a matter of economics. Interpreting all of those social signals would involve huge server costs. Neither Bing nor Google wo…
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Bonhams appoints Dave Dallas as international head of Old Masters

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 December 2011 03:05 Written by External Post Thursday, 15 December 2011 03:05

From January 3rd Dave Dallas the distinguished Old Masters specialist will take on a new brief for Bonhams, as International Director of the Old Masters Department.

Dave Dallas, 61, joined the Old Masters Department of an international fine art auction house in 1969 and has had four decades specialising in this most demanding area of the art market where an educated eye, expertise and a flawless memory are the tools of the trade. It was a decision that has served him well.

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Stamp of approval as move completed – Article Lynn News

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2011 03:15 Written by External Post Friday, 9 December 2011 03:15

Stamp enthusiasts were given the chance to see a rare Penny Black used on a letter posted to Fakenham solicitors Kent and Watson in 1841. It was part of a display by postal historian Patrick Pearson, a past president of the Royal Philatelic society, who once lived in Burnham Overy town, and focused on the postal history of Norfolk up to the issue of the first postage stamps 170 years ago. the display was last seen publicly at an international stamp exhibition in Monaco. the event marked the official opening of James and sons, auctioneers, at their new premises in Norwich street, Fakenham, on Friday. single penny blacks are rare but not prohibitively expensive, and collectors spend a lifetime trying to reconstruct complete sheets of the stamps. Mr Pearson, who now lives in suffolk, founded the Norfolk Postal History society in the 1960s and is a worldrenowned expert in stamps and an avid collector of postal memorabilia from Fakenham and surrounding villages. He traced the history of letters in the local area back to the pre-adhesive days before stamps, when the recipient rather than the sender was charged with the cost which depended on the number of miles the letter had travelled. the mileage was clearly shown on the letter for each stage of its journey from sender to recipient. the earliest letter on show was sent to Fakenham in 1776 and the first stamped letter was a 2d blue sent from Castle Rising to Fakenham in 1840. One letter Mr Pearson treasures is from the pre-adhesive days. It was penned by Admiral Lord Nelson whilst living on half pay at nearby Burnham thorpe and was written with his right hand. It was posted shortly before he was recalled to naval duty where he lost part of his right arm at the Battle of santa Cruz de tenerife in the Canary Islands in July, 1797. At the opening were members of the Fakenham Historical society, stamp dealers and serious collectors. James and sons recently relocated from syderstone Business Park and supplies stamps and other collectables. Mr James said that at any time they have up to 500 items on eBay, hold monthly auctions and fairs and sell up to a tonne of stamp albums in the eastern region of the country in a month.

Taken from the Lynn News – www.lynnnews.co.uk – 6th December 2011 – Picture Peter Bird

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Shootings pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sale

Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2011 06:15 Written by External Post Friday, 25 November 2011 06:15

As shoppers converged on retailers around the country looking for Black Friday deals, authorities reported scattered problems.

In Porter Ranch, a woman pepper sprayed customers at a Wal-Mart in what authorities say was a deliberate attempt to get more "door buster" merchandise. In San Leandro, a Wal-Mart shopper walking to his car was shot and wounded in a suspected robbery early Friday.

Another shooting was reported at a parking lot next to a Wal-Mart in South Carolina, also a suspected robbery attempt. Officials told WMBF-TV they believe the robbery was tied to Black Friday.

At Porter Ranch, 20 customers, including children, were hurt in the 10:10 p.m. incident, officials said. Shoppers complained of minor skin and eye irritation and sore throats.

"This was customer-versus-customer ‘shopping rage,’" said Los Angeles Police Lt. Abel Parga.

The woman used the spray in more than one area of the Wal-Mart "to gain preferred access to a variety of locations in the store," said Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Carson.

"She was competitive shopping," he said.

Police are searching for the woman but said they’ve had trouble getting a clear description of her.

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M-1910 ENTRENCHING TOOL

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:37 Written by External Post Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:37

T-handle shovel, 21″ long, w/ wood handle, US marked. Age and usage wear, small area of oxidation. Used in both WWI and WWII.
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