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Kovels.com Top 20 Antiques & Collectibles
Based on the results of millions of searches that took place on its website during the year 2007, collectors' top twenty choices are:
- Jewelry
- World War II
- Stove
- Coca-Cola
- Furniture
- Silver plate
- Occupied Japan
- Lighter
- Knife
- Painting
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- Bottle
- Capo-di-Monte
- Lladro
- Planters Peanuts
- Doll
- Toy
- Royal Doulton
- Clock
- Radio
- McCoy
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The website is over a year old now and emails and comments from collectors have suggested many of the changes you can see here. The over 600,000 prices are FREE, and we have added color pictures to some entries. Our FREE Weekly ezine, Kovels Komments, is full of antique-related news that is yours if you just register on the site. Subjects are as diverse as a dodo bird skeleton or a hole in a painting worth millions of dollars and how these events change the world a little for the average collector. And we still answer readers’ questions, give tips, and identify mystery marks through the ezine. Our newsletter archives, over 70 issues already, grow each month and everything is searchable.
We have added information in the form of leaflets, special reports, and lists of services and repair people who work with antiques. The top twenty words that were searched by users of the site are posted each month on the home page. There are even “snippets” from the latest “Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles” newsletter. Keep visiting Kovels.com. More information is and exiting things are coming.
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We are off to search for our favorite collectibles—happy collecting! | | |
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The Kovels' Top Twenty list is based on the results of hundreds of thousands of searches that took place on its website during of June, 2008. Occupied Japan items remain on top of the list. Only two categories changed—phonograph and Davy Crockett dropped off in favor of porcelain categories, Capo-Di-Monte and Hutschenreuther.
