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| Why Is There a Boom in Collectibles? | |
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| It's Mine ... I Saw It First!--the Mania to Collect | |
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| You Bought a What? | |
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| Moving Uptown? | |
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| Mass Wants Class | |
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| Take and Toss | |
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| The Collectibles Craze | |
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| A Lucky Few | |
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| Inside a Collector's Mind | |
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| So, Should You Save That Wrapper? | |
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| Perceived Beauty | |
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| Quantity | |
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| Price | |
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| Links to the Present | |
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| Historical Links | |
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| The Brass Ring | |
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| What Is a Collection? | |
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| The Rewards of Collecting | |
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| Satisfaction Guaranteed | |
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| Smarty-Pants | |
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| If Someone Makes It, Someone Else Collects It | |
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| If It Walks Like a Duck ... | |
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| Are You a Collector or an Investor? | |
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| Three's Company: Desirables, Collectibles, and Antiques | |
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| Desirables | |
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| Collectibles | |
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| Antiques | |
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| And There's More | |
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| "Collectible Art" | |
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| The Good, Bad, and Really Bad | |
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| Voodoo Economics and Collectibles | |
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| What's Hot--and What's Not | |
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| Buying and Selling Like a Pro | |
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| Shop 'Till You Drop | |
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| The Rules of Acquisition | |
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| Are You a Super Shopper? | |
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| In the Know | |
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| Deal of a Lifetime | |
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| Don't Scratch Your Nose! Shopping at Auctions | |
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| Read the Auction Catalog | |
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| Read the Reference Literature | |
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| Get Price Estimates | |
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| Mark the Items You Want--and What You'll Pay for Each | |
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| View the Items | |
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| Reserves | |
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| Bidding | |
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| Buying Retail | |
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| A Flea in Your Ear | |
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| Mail-Order Bride | |
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| Order Me Another Margarita, Dahling ... and Then Let's Hit the Shops | |
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| Hey, Big Spender | |
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| How Much Is That Doggie (Statue) in the Window? | |
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| Provenance--a Collectible's Family Tree | |
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| Guiding Light? | |
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| So, Can You Knock Off a Few Bucks? | |
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| Bargain Basement | |
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| Horse Trading | |
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| Even-Steven: Trading | |
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| Buy, Buy | |
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| Buy High, Sell Low | |
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| Buying for Big Bucks: Top Five Hints for Hitting the Collectibles Jackpot | |
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| All in the Family: Uncle Sam | |
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| Trouble in River City | |
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| Damage Control | |
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| "Need, Speed, Greed"--What About Fakes? | |
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| Galloping Gimmes | |
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| Squeeze the Goods | |
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| Speculation | |
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| Treasures and Turnips: Selling Your Collectibles | |
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| This Little Piggy Went to Market | |
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| Pennies from Heaven: Pricing Collectibles | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| Appraise Like a Pro | |
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| This Little Piggy Sold Roast Beef: Know the Market | |
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| Viva La Difference? | |
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| The Secret to Selling Success | |
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| Selling Privately | |
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| Let Their Fingers Do the Walking: Advertising | |
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| Show and Tell | |
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| Money Business | |
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| Selling at Yard Sales | |
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| Neither Rain Nor Shine | |
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| Alert the Media | |
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| Tricks and Tips | |
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| Selling to Dealers | |
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| It's Showtime! Selling at Collectibles Shows and Flea Markets | |
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| Hey, Check It Out! | |
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| Selling at Auctions | |
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| Types of Auctions | |
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| The Price Is Right? | |
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| Timing Is Everything | |
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| Fees | |
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| Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk | |
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| CyberShopping: Buying and Selling Online | |
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| Going, Going, Gone! | |
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| Online Auction Sites | |
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| Companies with Web Sites | |
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| Hybrid Sites | |
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| Brave New World | |
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| Caution: Cyber Con Ahead | |
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| Top Ten Tips for Buying Collectibles Online | |
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| Top Ten Tips for Selling Collectibles Online | |
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| Paper Chase | |
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| Pulp (Non)Fiction | |
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| Ephemera--Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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| The Paper Chase | |
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| Back from the Dead | |
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| Cut and Paste | |
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| Bookplates | |
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| The Bookplates Are Coming, the Bookplates Are Coming! | |
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| Top Notch | |
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| Wish You Were Here: Postcards | |
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| Poster Girl | |
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| The Play's the Thing: Theater Memorabilia | |
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| Sign on the Dotted Line | |
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| Stagestruck | |
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| Get with the Program | |
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| Movie Memorabilia | |
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| Cels for Sale | |
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| Posters for a Price | |
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| Loose Paper with a Link | |
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| A Striking Example of Collectibles: Matchbooks | |
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| Card-Carrying Collectors | |
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| Take Me out to the Ball Game: Baseball Cards | |
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| Up to Bat: The Beginning of Baseball Cards | |
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| First Base: The Golden Era #1 | |
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| Time out on the Field: A Lull in the Action | |
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| Second Base: The Golden Era #2 | |
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| Seventh Inning Stretch: A Break for War | |
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| Third Base: Modern Baseball Cards | |
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| Home Run: Collecting Baseball Cards | |
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| House of Cards | |
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| Building a Collection | |
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| Buy Smart | |
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| Hey, Sport: Sports Cards | |
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| Be a Sport: Collecting Sports Cards | |
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| Up the Ante | |
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| It's Your Deal: Playing Cards | |
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| Bewitched by Magic Cards | |
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| It's a Setup | |
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| Build a Deck | |
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| Gotta Catch 'Em All: Pokemon Cards | |
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| Pokemon Fever | |
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| The Card Facts | |
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| Not-So-Funny Papers: Comic Books | |
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| Bam! Pow! Zap! A Short History of Comic Books | |
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| It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... | |
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| The Horror, the Horror! | |
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| They're Back ... | |
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| Comics Today | |
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| Taking the Plunge | |
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| Making the Grade | |
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| A Nip and a Tuck | |
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| Buzz, Buzz | |
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| Art for Art's Sake | |
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| Tried and True: Collecting Stamps and Coins | |
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| Stamp Collecting 101 | |
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| The Whole Is the Sum of Its Parts | |
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| Form and Function | |
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| A Sticky Acquisition: Acquiring Stamps | |
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| Used, Not Abused | |
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| Mixtures and Packets | |
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| Dealing with Dealers | |
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| Mail Order and Internet | |
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| Auctions | |
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| Another Opening, Another Show: Stamp Shows | |
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| Even-Steven: Trading | |
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| What to Collect? | |
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| Don't Bet the Ranch: Stamps as Investments | |
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| Look Before You Leap | |
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| A Little Face Time | |
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| Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels: Collecting Coins | |
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| Making Heads or Tails of It: Learning the Parts of a Coin | |
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| Pocket Change or Priceless? Grading Coins | |
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| A Penny Saved Is a Dollar Earned: Sources for Coins | |
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| Look Further Than the Couch Cushions: Circulation | |
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| The Exchange of Change: Coin Dealers | |
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| If I Had a Nickel for Every Coin Collector | |
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| When Four Quarters Equal More Than a Dollar: Collection vs. Investment | |
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| Plunking Down Your Spare Change | |
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| [Love] Money Makes the World Go Round | |
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| If These Bills Could Talk: A Brief History of Paper Money | |
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| The First Money | |
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| We're in the Money: The Development of Money in America | |
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| The South Will Rise Again--but Its Money Won't | |
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| Dollars and Sense: Why Collect Paper Money? | |
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| The Almighty Dollar | |
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| Building Your Collection | |
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| Top U.S. Notes for Collectors | |
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| Hot Foreign Money | |
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| You Can't Go Wrong with Money | |
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| Making the Grade | |
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| Cash on the Barrelhead | |
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| Pass the Bucks: Handling and Preserving Money | |
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| Wash and Wear Money | |
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| Strut Your Stuff ... Not | |
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| Penny Wise, Pound Foolish | |
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| Feathering the Nest | |
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| Cute, Cuddly, and Costly: Collectible Stuffed Toys | |
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| Spilling the Beans | |
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| Bean Town | |
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| Has Beans? | |
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| A Hill of Beans | |
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| Fake Out | |
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| Using Your Bean | |
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| Stuffed to the Gills | |
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| Grin and Bear It: Teddy Bears | |
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| The Bear Facts | |
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| The Bear Body | |
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| Fun and Games | |
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| All Dolled Up | |
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| Blockheads: Wooden Head Dolls | |
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| Bisque Heads | |
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| Papier-Mache Heads | |
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| You Can't Be Too Rich or Too Thin: Paper Dolls | |
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| Barbie: The Plastic Bombshell | |
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| Character Counts | |
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| Less Is More: Dollhouses and Miniatures | |
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| The Magic Kingdom of Collectibles: Disneyana | |
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| Judging Disneyana | |
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| It's a Small World After All | |
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| Mechanical Toys | |
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| The Die Is Cast | |
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| A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned: Penny Banks | |
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| Losing Your Marbles | |
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| Puzzle Me This | |
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| Not Brown Baggin' It: Lunch Boxes | |
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| Home Sweet Collectible | |
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| Having Your Hobby and Drinking It, Too: Beer Cans | |
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| Get Your Cold Beer Here! | |
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| On Tap | |
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| The Many Ways to Spin the Bottle | |
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| Beauty in a Bottle | |
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| Cleaning Bottles | |
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| Whatever Winds Your Watch | |
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| Buying Time: Purchasing a Clock | |
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| Something to Write Home About: Pens | |
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| Domestic Goddess Strikes It Rich! | |
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| Living in an Amish Paradise: Quilts | |
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| Catch the (Air) Wave: Radios | |
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| Dust Off That Turntable: Records | |
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| Tool Time | |
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| Book Learnin' | |
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| Book 'Em, Danno | |
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| Mass Wants Class | |
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| Paperback Writer | |
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| Book Speak | |
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| How Not to Get Rich Quick Collecting Books | |
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| A Good Book--but Not a Good Investment: Bibles | |
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| Leader of the Pack: First Editions | |
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| Identifying a First Edition | |
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| Who's Hot ... and Who's Not? | |
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| Jacket Required: Collectible Condition | |
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| Gilding the Lily | |
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| Hot Tip: Old Atlases | |
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| A Novel Idea: Books with Collectible Potential | |
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| Each to His (or Her) Own Taste | |
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| Serious Shopping | |
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| China and Crystal Collectibles | |
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| Shards of History | |
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| Salt of the Earth: Earthenware | |
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| Solid as a Rock: Stoneware | |
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| Roll 'Dem Bones: Bone China | |
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| Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Ironstone | |
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| Putting on the Ritz: Porcelain | |
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| Dating Porcelain | |
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| McCollectibles: Limited Editions | |
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| In Your Dreams: Building a Collection | |
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| Fill It with Leaded, Please: Cut Crystal | |
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| Other Twentieth-Century Glass | |
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| Beauty and Bucks: Art Glass | |
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| Poor Man's Tiffany: Carnival Glass | |
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| Crystal on Steroids: Depression Glass | |
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| American and European Glass of the 1940s and 1950s | |
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| Passionate for Paperweights | |
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| Collecting Glass | |
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| Master of Arts: Photographs, Prints, and Paintings | |
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| Say Cheese, Please: Photographs | |
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| Look at the Birdie | |
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| America in Amber: Daguerreotypes | |
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| Smile! | |
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| Picture Perfect | |
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| Market Forecast | |
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| Better Safe Than Sorry | |
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| So You Want to Put Together a Collection of Photos? | |
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| A Few Grand for Photos | |
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| Champagne Tastes on a Beer Budget | |
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| Shutterbugs of the World, Unite! | |
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| Some Day My Prints Will Come: Prints and Lithographs | |
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| Psst! Wanna Come to My Room and See My Etchings? | |
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| Engraving | |
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| Intaglio Printing | |
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| Etching | |
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| Lino Cutting | |
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| Lithography | |
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| Relief Printing | |
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| Surface Printing | |
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| Woodcut Printing | |
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| Wood Engraving | |
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| False Profits | |
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| Stop the Presses! | |
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| Go West, Young Collector | |
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| Go East, Too | |
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| Pretty as a Picture: Drawings and Paintings | |
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| The Material Is the Message | |
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| Paper Trail | |
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| Inky Dinky Bottle of Inky | |
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| Get the Point: Pens and Pencils | |
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| Jest Plain Folk | |
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| Quick-Draw McGraw: Drawings | |
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| Fraktur | |
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| The Shadow Knows: Silhouettes | |
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| Cut and Paste | |
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| The Line Kings | |
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| Be Art Smart | |
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| Art 101 | |
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| Know Thyself | |
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| Collecting for Cash | |
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| Paying the Piper | |
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| Value | |
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| Pricing | |
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| Top Ten Ways Not to Buy Paintings | |
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| Damaged Goods | |
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| Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Fakes and Frauds | |
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| All That Glitters Isn't Gold--but It's Probably Collectible | |
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| Putting on the Glitz: Collecting Jewelry | |
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| Oldies but Goodies: Antique Jewelry | |
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| Shop 'Till You Drop | |
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| Dating | |
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| Material Girl | |
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| Gemstones: Gravel with an Attitude | |
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| Truth or Dare | |
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| Amethyst to Zirconium | |
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| Truth in Advertising | |
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| All That Glitters Isn't 14K | |
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| At the End of the Rainbow | |
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| What's Up, Doc? | |
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| Native American Jewelry | |
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| Netsuke | |
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| Happy Days Are Here Again: Jewelry of the 1940s and 1950s | |
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| Heavy Metal | |
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| The Silver Standard | |
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| American Sterling | |
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| American Coin Silver | |
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| English Sterling Silver | |
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| Continental Silver | |
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| Sterling Silver from the Former Soviet Union | |
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| Danish Silver | |
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| Victorian and Modern Silver Plate | |
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| The Baser Metals: Pewter, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Iron, Steel | |
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| The Poor Man's Silver: Pewter | |
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| The Alloy Kids: Copper, Bronze, Brass | |
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| Steel Yourself | |
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| Collectors' Darlings | |
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| Taking Care of Business | |
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| Inventory and Insure | |
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| Cataloging: Do You Know What You Own? | |
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| Do You Know What's in Your Collection? | |
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| An Ounce of Prevention | |
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| Cover Yourself | |
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| Walk This Way | |
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| Spit and Polish | |
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| A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: Displaying and Storing | |
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| Albums and Scrapbooks | |
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| Cabinets | |
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| Glass | |
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| Paper Collectibles | |
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| Pewter | |
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| Photographs | |
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| Stuffed Toys | |
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| Wood | |
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| Is Cleanliness Really Next to Godliness? | |
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| Ceramics | |
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| Copper | |
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| Glass and Crystal | |
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| Iron | |
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| Paper Collectibles | |
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| Pewter | |
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| Silver | |
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| Stuffed Toys | |
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| Wood | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Future Collectibles | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |