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www.gale.cengage.com/PriceIt/ Database From paperweights to political memorabilia With popular TV shows like ABC TV’s Collectors and BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, collectors and treasure hunters are on a crusade to price everything from paperweights to political memorabilia. And, since one person’s trash is another’s treasure, it’s often difficult to put a fair and equitable price on antiques and collectibles. What is it worth? Or, more importantly, what will someone pay for it? Price It! Antiques & Collectibles – powered by GoAntiques.com – is the most comprehensive, subscription-based database for pricing antiques and collectibles. Users can search and sort using a number of criteria, such as category type, sale date range (if applicable) and data source. Price It! Antiques & Collectibles offers more than 23 million prices, combined with more than 10 million images. Plus, 2 million records are added monthly, so the records are always up-to-date and current. No other online pricing tool offers as many records as Price It! Antiques & Collectibles. Whether your library patron is a professional art appraiser or a budding collector, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles is the ultimate online resource for pricing antiques and collectibles. Fast and accurate pricing Sales information from some of the sources dates back to 1998, giving your library patrons a comprehensive view of the marketplace. Additionally, results lists include the average price, number of items, price range, sales channel and source. Images returned with results help your patrons see the condition of the items they’re researching, which leads to more accurate pricing. You can even discover the item’s maker or the artist who created the work. So whether library patrons are serious collectors, antiques dealers or just trying to determine the value of something found in the attic, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles can save them valuable time and money with a fast and accurate value determination. Meeting every collector’s needs Price It! Antiques & Collectibles appeals to a wide range of your library patrons as it offers not just high-end antiques but popular collectibles too with categories such as Autographs, Bottles, Desk Accessories, Dolls, Drawings and Figurines. Unlike other online databases that draw from few sources, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles offers historical price data (plus images when available) gathered from three reputable sources – online auctions (eBay®, GoAntiques™), online retail (GoAntiques™ and TIAS), and dozens of land-based auctions, including those from Australia and New Zealand. The ultimate online resource for pricing antiques and collectibles ‘For professionals and non-professionals alike, [Price It! Antiques & Collectibles] is a cost-effective and intuitive service for determining values and value trends for nearly anything antique or collectible. Information is king, and whether you’re buying or selling, [Price It! Antiques & Collectibles] gives you the peace of mind to do so with confidence.’ - Dave Maloney Author of Maloney’s Antiques & Collectibles Resource Directory

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Page 1: The ultimate online resource for pricing antiques and ... popular TV shows like ABC TV’s Collectors and BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, ... Antiques & Collectibles is the ultimate online

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From paperweights to political memorabiliaWith popular TV shows like ABC TV’s Collectors and BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, collectors and treasure hunters are on a crusade to price everything from paperweights to political memorabilia. And, since one person’s trash is another’s treasure, it’s often difficult to put a fair and equitable price on antiques and collectibles. What is it worth? Or, more importantly, what will someone pay for it? Price It! Antiques & Collectibles – powered by GoAntiques.com – is the most comprehensive, subscription-based database for pricing antiques and collectibles. Users can search and sort using a number of criteria, such as category type, sale date range (if applicable) and data source. Price It! Antiques & Collectibles offers more than 23 million prices, combined with more than 10 million images. Plus, 2 million records are added monthly, so the records are always up-to-date and current. No other online pricing tool offers as many records as Price It! Antiques & Collectibles. Whether your library patron is a professional art appraiser or a budding collector, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles is the ultimate online resource for pricing antiques and collectibles.

Fast and accurate pricingSales information from some of the sources dates back to 1998, giving your library patrons a comprehensive view of the marketplace. Additionally, results lists include the average price, number of items, price range, sales channel and source. Images returned with results help your patrons see the condition of the items they’re researching, which leads to more accurate pricing. You can even discover the item’s maker or the artist who created the work. So whether library patrons are serious collectors, antiques dealers or just trying to determine the value of something found in the attic, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles can save them valuable time and money with a fast and accurate value determination.

Meeting every collector’s needsPrice It! Antiques & Collectibles appeals to a wide range of your library patrons as it offers not just high-end antiques but popular collectibles too with categories such as Autographs, Bottles, Desk Accessories, Dolls, Drawings and Figurines. Unlike other online databases that draw from few sources, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles offers historical price data (plus images when available) gathered from three reputable sources – online auctions (eBay®, GoAntiques™), online retail (GoAntiques™ and TIAS), and dozens of land-based auctions, including those from Australia and New Zealand.

The ultimate online resource for pricing antiques and collectibles

‘For professionals and non-professionals alike, [Price It! Antiques & Collectibles] is a cost-effective and intuitive service for determining values and value trends for nearly anything antique or collectible. Information is king, and whether you’re buying or selling, [Price It! Antiques & Collectibles] gives you the peace of mind to do so with confidence.’

- Dave Maloney Author of Maloney’s Antiques & Collectibles Resource Directory

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For more information or to a request a free trial please contact your regional consultant:

Carole BloomerRegional Consultant AustraliaTel: 03 9685 4279 Mobile: 0400 005 [email protected]

Liza FisherRegional Consultant(New Zealand, South Pacific)Mobile: 027 492 [email protected]

Maryce JohnstoneSales Manager AustraliaTel: 03 9685 4246Mobile: 0418 346 [email protected]

FEATURES: Covers art and popular collectibles, not just high-end antiques

Includes online auction sources (eBay® and GoAntiques™), online retail (GoAntiques™ and TIAS) and land-based auction houses – unlike other databases that only offer information from auction houses

An aggregating tool that provides over 5200 eBay category historical records going back to January 2005, in addition to pricing records from several antique dealer sites (GoAntiques™ and TIAS) and over 50 antique auction houses

Includes over 20 million records (and growing)

Includes 10 million images enabling your patrons to see the condition of the item

The database is constantly updated with more than 2 million records added each month

Appeals to a wide range of patrons because it includes popular collectible categories such as Militaria/War Memorabilia, Miscellaneous Coins/Currency, Stamps, Miscellaneous Movie/Music Memorabilia, Comic Books and more than 100 additional categories

Offers patrons a variety of ways to search for antiques and collectibles: by Category type, Sale date range, Data source, Keyword, Sales type (sold or unsold) and Images (patrons may include or exclude items without images)

Offers patrons 125 categories to filter their search

Results show what the item was sold for, date sold, channel it was sold through and data source

Item detail provides a complete description of the item and a link to additional details about the item

Clicking on the image provides access to all of the images included on the item in larger, viewable form and an icon of where the item was sold

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