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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 320424, member: 360&quot;]I&#039;ve heard SO MANY of these things, I could fill a book...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1). If it&#039;s old, it&#039;s valuable!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Who the hell told you that? I could show you LOADS of old crap which isn&#039;t worth anything.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2). It&#039;s rare, so it&#039;s valuable!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Again...nope. Just because it&#039;s rare doesn&#039;t mean diddlesquat.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>3). My fountain pen has a gold nib. So it&#039;s worth a lot of money, right!?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My car has wheels. So it must be worth a lot of money, right?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>4). Restoring antiques destroys their value!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>That depends. How badly did you screw up the restoration? I hope you realise a lot - a LOT - of antiques - are only here because somebody bothered to try and restore them PROPERLY. If they didn&#039;t, you&#039;d be looking at a pile of crap.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>5). It&#039;s in &#039;original condition&#039; and therefore it&#039;s more valuable!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>So it came out of the factory looking like this? Because...that&#039;s what &#039;original condition&#039; means... </p><p><br /></p><p>---- ---- ---- ----</p><p><br /></p><p>This last one isn&#039;t a myth, just something that drives me nuts. But people who insist they have something - when it&#039;s quite obvious that it isn&#039;t what they think it is. Like the lady I saw online once (this is about 2-3 years ago now) who swore up and down that this...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/photosnew/dealer_carlyonsilver/dealer_carlyonsilver_highres_1394718598590-7554331035.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>...was a very rare silver coin-case.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I tried politely to tell her that it was a vesta-case, she EXPLODED asking me who the hell I was and then I got the whole &quot;I&quot;VE BEEN DOING ANTIQUES DEALING FOR 30 YEARS...&quot; etc etc spiel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh. Good! Good, good, good. In that case, you should recognise a silver vesta-case when you see one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people make me despair...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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