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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 | |