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Read The Rest Of This...A small piece of Mersey Beat history
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Read The Rest Of This...2012 started with a bang for Boningtons
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Read The Rest Of This...Coin fetches 138m times its face value
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Read The Rest Of This...Yahoo`s Biggest Worry: Alibaba, or Facebook?
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A Washington Post video reported that China’s Alibaba is preparing to make a bid for all of Yahoo. The Chinese e-commerce company, run by Jack Ma, has long wanted to buy back the 40 percent stake that Yahoo owns in it. The bid, for $20 a share, would value the venerable search engine at $25 billion. Eric Jackson, a major Yahoo shareholder and founder of Ironfire Capital LLC, thinks that price is too low. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Jackson let an investor revolt back in 2007 that led to a change in the CEO. But despite his reservation about the low price, in the video, Jackson n…
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The Decline of Organic Links Infographic
Last Updated on Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13 Written by a2e Monday, 12 December 2011 01:13
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For many years it was true that SEO = links, but due to the rise of rel=nofollow, fearmongering & social media, organic links have lost much of their relative importance in many verticals.
Links are still valuable in some areas of course, but where the search results are full of listings from Google.com, pushed below the fold from larger AdWords ads and/or heavily skewed by things like brand bias there is much less value in link building in numerous big money markets. After all, few care who ranks #1 if #1 is below the fold!
FAR EAST AIR FORCE MEDICAL OFFICER`S CLASS A SERVICE DRESS UNIFORM
Last Updated on Sunday, 4 December 2011 10:36 Written by External Post Sunday, 4 December 2011 10:36
Tailor made officer`s 4 pocket blouse with matching belt + pink trousers. Blouse has Theatre made Far East Air Force patch on left shoulder, 1 overseas bar, US and Medical collar devices and 3 place, plastic “Wolf-Brown” ribbon bar with American Theatre, Asia campaign and WW2 Victory. Looks good for display but some wear and mothing to both jacket and trousers. Fine for display and well worth value in the insignia alone!
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A Sad Story…
Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2011 12:05 Written by External Post Friday, 25 November 2011 12:05
I first became interested in antiques when I was a poor student. Fortunately my tastes varied then as much as they do now, and I was as interested in things I could afford as I was in the things that were well beyond my league. While at university I built up a large collection of 17th-19thC blue and white hand-painted and transfer-printed plates without spending more than a few pennies. Some of the plates I bought then are still only worth a few pennies, but quite a few have greatly increased in value.
Now, I don’t believe in buying antiques in order to make money, but that doesn&rsq … Read this full article on the Miller’s Blog.
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Article from the Lynn News – 11th November 2011
Last Updated on Friday, 11 November 2011 01:55 Written by External Post Friday, 11 November 2011 01:55
Auctioneer has lots more to offer
An expert in collectibles has just relocated to fakenham where he has opemed an Aladdin’s Cave for hobbyists.
It’s a business which grew out of his very first sale some 40 years ago when he bought an old sixpence (2½p) for 10/- (50p) and sold it the same day for £1.
That was in 1969 when David James opened his first shop in Norwich after a career in the Army serving in Borneo and Aden.
After a more recent period on Syderstone business park he has now relocated to Norwich Street, Fakenham, where 5000 square feet of storage space houses thousands of items such as postage stamps, cigarette cards, medals, bank notes, coins, postcards, old maps, prints, books and much more besides.
“We have one of the largest stocks of collectables in this country, if not in Europe.” he said. As an auctioneer and valuer he is an expert in the many branches of collecting but also has at his elbow a team of 20 consultants whose specialist expertise gives the business a vast knowledge of the worth of anything and everything a collector might be after. That ranges from valuable penny blacks to ten-a-penny contemporary trade cards given away by companies such as Brooke Bond, Kellogg’s abd McDonalds.
At any one time the company has up to 500 items on eBay as well as holding monthly auctions and fairs around the eastern region. “We sell one tonne of stamp albums through our auctions every month and we’ve just past the 2000 auctions.” he said.
But it is also very challenging business where collecting habits can change rapidly. Cigarette cards are currently not in vogue unless they are early and rare. But anything containing either gold or silver is much sought after as the value of bullion rises world-wide.
It is also a business where big money is paid for rarity. Currently he has letters, sent before postage stamps were introduced in 1840 with the advent of the Penny Black. One, dated 1666, is valued by the distance it travelled: the greater the distance the greater the value. Marks on the correspondence record the total mileage with the recipent paying accordingly. Another lucrative market is old cheques and postal orders.
Taken from the Lynn News – www.lynnnews.co.uk – 11th November 2011 – Picture by Peter Bird
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