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| 17.05.12. A memento of the Red Devils' 1909 FA Cup final with Bristol City fetches £23,500 at Sotheby's, eclipsing the previous record of £21,850 held by the programme of the 1889 final ... more Add a comment 17.05.12. A rare photograph showing the Beatles walking the "wrong way" across the Abbey Road pedestrian crossing is expected to fetch up to £9,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions, in London on May 22nd ... more Add a comment News
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While bargains
are to be had at auction, for the uninitiated, I think it's worth
quoting from John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors. "The novice
collector does well to recognise that in a bookshop there is a strong
bond of common interest across the counter, but that in the sale-room
every man's hand is against him. If he is a man of spirit, he may
relish the encounter; hoping to beat the professionals at their
own game and be prepared to take a few knocks in the process. Yet
if he is also a man of sense, he will only do so after careful reconnaissance,
and then with his eyes wide open".
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