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British Coin Dealers Directory - Listing of UK professional numismatists. Also contains information about identifying and valuing coins, book and magazine reviews, coin clubs and trade associations.
UK Collect - Dedicated to collectables. Includes feature articles, news and reviews plus various items for sale including Royal Doulton and Wade.
Collectiques - Antiques and Collectables - Buy, sell and research antiques and collectables including guide, directory, news, dealers, magazines. A site dedicated to art, antiques, history and collecting. Many links for collectors.
Susie Cooper Collectors Club - Founded in 2000. Pottery information, pictures, resources, shopping, and views.
World Collectors Net - Information on famous collectables includes: histories, new and retiring pieces, hot items, club addresses and news, library, magazine, shopping centre, swapshops, bulletin boards.
Independent UK Toy Guide - Guide for collectors and enthusiast of toys and games in United Kingdom.
Miniatures by Woodworks - Woodworks supply dolls house miniatures. Furniture, accessories and DIY to the 1/12th scale.
Pete's Pages Of Interest - Homepages of Peter Compton. Radio and postcards collection displayed for exchange.
Lynton Porcelain - Extensive product information from designers and producers of English bone China.
Freeserve Collectables Channel - Companion to collecting. Includes news, directories, competitions, clubs, auction diary, price guide.
Arthur Swallow Fairs Ltd - Organisers of antiques and collectors fairs. Details of forthcoming events.
Heritage Collectables - One of the Uk's bigger sites for Vintage Fountain Pens, Royal Doulton, Hummel, Royal Copenhagen, Lladro, Beswick and Okra Glass. Specialises in rare discontinued items.
Antique-Locks.com - Information on antique locks and key, also details of key making for Bramah and other antique locks.
Picture Postcard Monthly - Magazine for collectors of old and modern postcards, with articles and features on all kinds of subjects to be found on postcards.
A&BC 'Battle' bubble gum cards - Battle' was a bubble-gum card set produced by A&BC around 1964. This is a gallery of all the cards in this rare set (front and back for story lines). Site is for reference only, they are not for sale.
Antiques Message Board - message board for UK antique dealers and collectors. Many topic headings to cover items such as stolen, wanted and recommended sites.
Lucrezia's Lasers - Collectable Laserdiscs and video tapes, both NTSC and PAL, CBRADIOS and some toys.
Regular auctions of Chinese Antique Furniture and other collectable items - Regular auctions of Chinese Antique Furniture and other Chinese collectable items
Orringe Consulting - Orringe consulting, Valuers , Appraisers, Fine Art and Antiques for insurance purposes both pre and post loss, Probate valuations, Advisors on sales of Art and Antiques, Training courses and seminars on Art and Antiques
The Labologists Society - Provides information relating to the hobby of label collecting and information regarding breweries, their history and allied subjects. Includes history, meetings, photos and membership information.
Cherish Events - Quality Teddy Bear & Doll Fairs in England and Wales, featuring hundreds of unique bears and dolls - old, new and antique.
Collectabubbles Guide to Bubble Bath Characters Book - Collectors Guide to Bubble bath / soaky / soakie characters from the last 50 years. Covers UK, USA, Canada, Europe etc releases.
Mug Central - A private collection of advertising mugs.
British Barbie Club - Online club for collectors of Barbie dolls in the UK.
Ian Calvert's Beermats - Collector of UK brewery beermats. Image gallery containing scanned images. Welcome offers to exchange mats with collectors around the world. Special interest in Guinness mats.
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Collecting "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Collecting We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Collecting "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Collecting He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Collecting Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Collecting Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Collecting The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Collecting Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Collecting "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Collecting Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Collecting How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Collecting You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Collecting An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Collecting "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Collecting Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Collecting The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Collecting "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Collecting No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Collecting "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Collecting Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Collecting "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Collecting
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