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Star Wars Figures

So do you have any? Maybe your children did? Even if theyve left home, you may have stored them up in the loft when clearing out their bedrooms. Star Wars was THE phenomenon of the late 1970s and 1980s. Every child had to have their favorite figures...

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12th July 2010

Rocking horses

Wooden horses have entertained children for centuries. Wealthy Ancient Greek youngsters would pass the time playing hobby horse, whilst children of the middle-ages re-enacted the battles of heroic knights and brave jousters on wheeled wooden horses...

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9th July 2010

Tiffany Lamps

The name Tiffany has long been associated with unmistakeable, exquisitely beautiful and carefully crafted decorative objects that helped define the Art Nouveau era. As a result, Tiffany pieces can be prohibitively expensive and in 1997, Christies sold a stunning Lotus lamp...

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8th July 2010

Smurfs

In 2008 the Smurfs smurfed (or celebrated) their 50th birthday. The little blue men and women first appeared in 1958 in a Belgian comic strip by cartoonist, Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992). Then known as ‘stroumpf’, the Smurfs were..

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2nd July 2010

Campaign Furniture

The military gentleman of the Victorian period would not countenance the idea of a foreign posting without his drawing room suite. Indeed, it appears that the nineteenth century mindset detected nothing even faintly risible when...

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1st July 2010

Games

Tarot cards are now synonymous with old ladies and fortune telling, but they were not originally occult. The parlour game Tarock had been played for centuries before the late 18th century revival of mysticism prompted occultists...

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30th June 2010