Games
There Is No Guaranteed Trick for Winning an Auction
Bidding forums occasionally circulate a confident claim: a guaranteed trick for winning a lot below its real value, usually...
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Everything we have published, newest first. Buying guides, identification notes, and the arguments we have had with advice that gets repeated without being tested.
Games
Bidding forums occasionally circulate a confident claim: a guaranteed trick for winning a lot below its real value, usually...
Games
An email arrives offering to appraise a piece of silver or a cabinet sight unseen, with a confident promise attached before...
Ceramics and Porcelain
A glaze is the first thing anyone notices about a piece of old pottery, and also one of the last things new collectors learn to...
Period Furniture
A chest of drawers can be refinished, reupholstered where it has fabric, and have its hardware swapped twice over without...
Games
A small but growing handful of simulation games, among them Museum Tycoon, Two Point Museum, and smaller indie titles built...
Care and Preservation
A beaded 1920s evening dress that had been hung on a wire hanger for perhaps fifteen years came across my work table a few...