I don't know about you, but I still love the Beatles and their music. Their lyrics and melodies are still good today even after all these years. I have always avoided trying to obtain some of their early memorabilia as I thought it would always be expensive, but I stumbled on to something quite fun and relatively cheap, Bubble Gum Trading Cards. Just like baseball cards, these were sold in bubble gum packs with various beatles pictures on the front.…
Do you remember the line from Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” Well this was certainly the case. I bought a box of old English Stage Play magazines from the early 1900s. In the bottom of the box were some old papers from the estate, and in them was an old post office envelope containing some Postal Savings System Certificates in the original post office envelope.…
With real estate it is location, location, location. With china and porcelain it's condition, condition, condition. There are some exceptions, where a pattern is extremely rare. Your family may have been using it for years, but the person who is going to buy your piece doesn't want the defects.
So what affects the value of a piece?
Small nicks or chips to pieces generally get put into the donation pile unless they are a foot of a tureen or large item, but the value is hugely decreased.…