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Forged Sports Memorabilia
Forged Sports Memorabilia by Frank Hague There is an ever-growing market in sport memorabilia, and sports-related keepsakes include signed commemorative photos, baseballs, footballs, basketballs, pucks and jerseys. A Google listing of corporations hawking these items…
Rare Coins
Rare Coins by Dr. Mark Skousen “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.” ~Alan Greenspan, 1966 One of the things every investor quickly discovers is that there are no sure deals or…
Harley Davidson FLHTCUI 98 Ultra Classic Collectors
A reader has the following up for sale: Harley Davidson FLHTCUI 98 Ultra Classic Collectors edition Peace Officers Special / Shriners Features: – 2 tone gun metal and uniform blue – Big Bore kit at time of purchase – Phase II injector kit –…
10-inch Haskell Minnow
Apparently he had an offer of $500,000 for it: Rarest fishing lure gets special care from new owner AP Wire | 10/02/2005 ALAN CLEMONS The Huntsville Times “GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. – Occasionally, Kerry Chatham will take the remarkably pristine lure out of the…
Fleer American Hot Rod Association Trading Cards
A reader writes: ” I have 2 sets of NHRA cards. One says official drag champs American hot rod association AHRA set of 63 mint. Next set says AHRA drag nationals set of 70 bottom of card says Fleer limited Don Mills Ontario. I was wondering what they are…
Military Collectibles
Millions of dollars of military artifacts auctioned Associated Press “HAMPTON FALLS, N.H. Bidders from around the world spent a record nine-point-two (M) million dollars this week for rare artifacts from the Civil War and other bits of American history that were…
Wine Collecting
Buying Collectible Wine at Online Auctions By Elisabeth Townsend AuctionBytes.com October 07, 2005 ‘The most expensive wine ever sold remains a single bottle of Chateau Lafite 1787, which purportedly belonged to Thomas Jefferson,’ said Peter D. Meltzer,…
Britney’s Bra
… is back up for auction, after briefly being pulled from eBay. “The jeweled bra Britney Spears wore while promoting an H-B-O concert special was taken off an e-Bay charity auction when a staffer decided it broke the Web site’s policy of not selling…
The Problem with Autograph Authentication
by Adam McFarland As recently as 1997, the FBI estimated that between 50% and 90% of all collectibles in the marketplace are not authentic. Everyone that cares about the hobby agrees that something must be done. And most think that autograph authentication –…
