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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2707957, member: 5833&quot;]Oh, I understood that.&nbsp; I just realized right off that I didn&#039;t need to hear more to add my 2 bits.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have experience with price guides for any type of collectable other than cameos &amp; he started off with stamps.&nbsp; It hit me how different the collecting of stamps, or of any other standardized thing, is from collecting antique cameos, which have to be evaluated more as little unique art works.&nbsp; There&#039;s no natural structure for collecting cameos, nothing like collecting an example of each &amp; every coin issued in the US in 1972, no recognized grading system for condition.&nbsp; The great majority of cameos are not signed in any way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cameos &amp; anything else that is so unruly are very poor candidates for price guides &amp; certainly don&#039;t lend themselves to the kind of orderly &amp; exhaustive publications that are available for coins.&nbsp; I think I&#039;m convincing myself of the hopelessness of the task I&#039;ve undertaken with my web site.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":writer:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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