Kovels has released the Top 20 list of antiques and collectibles for March based on results of hundreds of thousands of searches on its website. The top three searches - Pottery, Glass and Furniture - rarely change and are always the major areas of interest because they are useful antiques or collectibles found in every home. But the other items reflect a special interest often influenced by current news or auctions.
For example, the recent ruling against selling war medals has created a problem for dealers and a change in prices of World War II souvenirs so it moved to number 10. The auctions of several large toy collections created extra publicity and interest in toy prices, and Toys made it into the 7th position. The entire top 20 list follows:
- Pottery and porcelain
- Glass
- Furniture
- Jewelry
- Bottles
- Metals
- Toys
- Prints, pictures, paintings, paper
- Royal Doulton
- World War II
- Stoves
- Coca-Cola
- Advertising
- Alabaster
- Silver plate
- Lighters
- Folk art
- Occupied Japan
- Weapons
- Music
Kovels.com offers the Web's largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles. Kovels.com advised that people use price guides for a number of reasons, the most common being that they are just trying to determine the value of a specific item that they own. "If an Item is not listed on the top 20 list, it does not necessarily mean that it is unpopular or that there is not a demand for it. It only means that in March there was less interest."
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