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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."
Catawiki is an online auction platform for buying and selling special items and collectibles. Catawiki was founded in 2008 as an online community for collectors. Since 2011, the company has been hosting weekly online auctions, in various categories such as vintage comic books, model trains, coins, watches, art, jewellery and classic cars.
A few years later, when the owner decided to have it checked out for its history, it was found to be a rare, 1,000-year-old creation from China – one of only two known to exist.
Beginning in 1998, woodcut prints from Washington began appearing on eBay and elsewhere; Washington claiming variously that the woodcuts were originals by famous artists, that they had been made by a great-grandfather whom he identified as named “Earl Mack Washington” and as having lived from 1862 until 1952, or that this alleged great-grandfather had rescued the associated blocks from a ...
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eBay was founded as AuctionWeb in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as a hobby to make some extra money. [2] One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser ...
eBay, May 30, 2016 Auction Sale Estate, NyStamps Unknown 768 eBay, Derbyshire, UK, January 2, 2018 Auction Sale Richard Morris Owner, Acquired book 50 years ago 536 eBay, Derbyshire, UK, February 4, 2018 Auction Sale Richard Morris Owner No Serial Number eBay, mfrancis, Seattle Washington USA, August 31, 2019 Auction Sale 136
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