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The Golden Age of Coin Collecting: Navigating the 2025 Precious Metals Market

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

Just snap some high-quality photos, provide detailed descriptions, and voila! Gold Coin Appraisal Online: All That Glitters Not to be left behind, gold coin appraisals have also entered the digital age. Online silver coin appraisals are revolutionizing the game, offering expert opinions at the click of a button.

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Office Hours Information from March 2025

International Society of Appraisers

There are different marketplaces depending on many factors, including: urgency to sell, quantity, condition of the property, and the quality of the items. What is the quality of diamond jewelry? It has similar qualities. Note that the definition of replacement cost comparable mentions age. You end up with a new ring.

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Insights on Auction Sales: A Corvette, Rare Titanic Postcard

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The presence of multiple key Silver Age issues suggests Ewbank’s landed a significant private collection. both exceptional values given the rarity and quality of the work. K&B’s recent sale highlighted just how tough the market for colonial furniture remains, despite quality examples.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Paintings, Hot Wheels, Vintage Photobooks

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But dig a little deeper and you’d see the paper backing and frame wore their age with the kind of grace only decades can bestow. Still, it presented well under natural light and resonated with buyers despite its age-worn charm. The quality of the photographs, especially for the time period, was nothing short of exceptional.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Mickey Mantle, Beer Can, Snow White

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Both cans are among the rarest known, with the White Cap can being one of only two high-quality examples identified. Despite some age-related wear and restoration, this quirky and nostalgic display struck a chord with collectors. Gunther Beer can from Baltimore is another rarity in top-tier condition, and it sold for just $1,000 less.

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Victorian “Tear Catchers” Story a Myth, But the Bottles Are Highly Collectible

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These bottles are presented sometimes as Victorian or Civil War tear catchers, used to hold the tears of lost love from a bygone and sentimental age. But laydowns are larger, generally made of cut glass or crystal, are of higher quality, and bring higher prices, especially examples made by famous companies.

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Collecting Star Trek Props

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This is due to its increased age, but perhaps also down to the new era of Star Trek that began with Discovery in 2018, bringing in a new legion of Trekkies. Modern Trek props usually have excellent production quality. The one-of-a-kind prop sold for $615,000 in 2021. Being such a recent series, very few props are available.