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  2. Collectibles You Probably Tossed That Are Now Worth a Fortune

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    Most View-Master reels, even old ones, are very affordable today — even the more "valuable" three-reel sets generally sell in the $10 to $50 range — but some of them are far pricier.

  3. Hundreds of pianos a year are being trashed in Minnesota - AOL

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    John Howard drove from Duluth to get of hundreds of piano keys for his wife, Kimberley Howard, who uses them in sculptures. A lucky few pianos have a better outcome. Pianocycle tries to find new ...

  4. Ivory - Wikipedia

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    Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. [9] Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, orca, narwhal and warthog are used as well.

  5. Pratt-Read - Wikipedia

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    The company began to specialize in manufacturing ivory piano keys in 1839 [4] and eventually piano action mechanisms. The company made its first screwdrivers in 1834 but stopped in 1840, instead selling the handles and blades to smaller companies made at the Pratt, Read and Company Factory Complex .

  6. 6 Rare Coins From the 1800s Worth Thousands That Are ... - AOL

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    Not only is this coin old, but it’s exceedingly rare with an estimated 10 ever minted. They’re 86% gold, 10% copper and 4% silver. At an auction in 2015, one of these coins sold for $1.8 million.

  7. Innovations in the piano - Wikipedia

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    Nineteenth-century piano innovation was, moreover, financed by a far more robust piano market than exists today. A few of the "innovations" discussed below were actually present in at least some pianos in the distant past. They are innovations to the extent that the old idea had become unfamiliar to most of the piano community through long disuse.

  8. List of piano manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Company Place Country Years active Acquired by Notes Atlas [1] [2]: Hamamatsu→Liaoning: Japan→China 1943–1986 2004–present. Atlas Piano and Instrument Manufacturing (Dalian) Co. Ltd is a musical instrument manufacturing company that Japan atlas piano manufacturing Co., Ltd. whole moved to China and invested and registered in Dalian Free Trade Zone.

  9. Keys, glasses, and the other most frequently lost items in ...

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    These are the items Americans lose most. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most commonly lost items were also among the most ubiquitous and important: phones and keys.