TIAS.com, one of the Internet's largest online antique and collectible mall released their monthly "Hot List" of Antiques & Collectibles. These top ten lists are based on hundreds of thousands of searches by people using the online search engines at the indicated Web sites in the month of June 2005. TIAS serves 190,000 unique customers a day. About 800 merchants sell through the TIAS system, listing well over half a million items for sale online.
These searches are what people were looking for, not necessarily what they were buying. In many cases, people will search for items when they are just trying to determine a value of a specific item that they have in their possession.
Here are the top ten search words used at http://www.TIAS.com. This site specializes in offering a broad range of antiques and collectibles:
Cookie Jar (No Movement)
2. Milk Glass (Up From #7)
3. Fenton (Pu From #10)
4. Carnival Glass (Not Listed Last month)
5. Depression Glass (Down from #4)
6. Avon (Up From #8)
7. Dolls (Down From #3)
8. McCoy (Up From #9)
9. Teapots (Down From #5)
10. Roseville (Not Listed Last month)
Here are the top ten search words used at http://www.AntiqueArts.com . This site specialized in "high end" Antique and Art:
Chairs (No Movement)
2. Limoges (No Movement)
3. Staffordshire (No Movement)
4. Mirrors (No Movement)
5. Desk (No Movement)
6. Sofa (No Movement)
7. Tiffany (Up From #9)
8. Tables (Down From #7)
9. Nippon (Up From #10
10. Transferware (Down From #8)
Here are the top ten search words used at http://www.Kovels.com . This site is a free online price guide to antiques and collectibles:
Books (Up From #4)
2. Dolls (No Movement)
3. Avon (Up From #5)
4. China (Down From #3)
5. Bottles (Down From #1)
6. Vase (Up From #10
7. Plates (Down From #6)
8. Roseville (Up From #9)
9. Pottery (Not Listed Last Month)
10. Clocks (Not Listed Last month)
Past hot lists can now be viewed online in the TIAS Newsletter archives, just search for "Hot List" at http://www.tias.com/newsletter
