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  • HowExpert Guide to Fountain Pens

    101+ Lessons to Learn How to Find, Use, Clean, Maintain, and Love Fountain Pens from A to Z

    by HowExpert, Lauren Traye ...
    If you want to learn everything about fountain pens, then check out "HowExpert Guide to Fountain Pens." You will learn how to find, use, clean, maintain, and love fountain pens from A to Z!Fountain pens are not ancient relics, and they're not pens made of feathers that you dip into an ink vial. That would be a quill. They are part of a bustling and modern industry backed by users, collectors, and ... Read more

    S$ 13.80 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pompei e le sue rovine, Vol. 2

    by Pier Ambrogio Curti ...
    Gran parte della vita publica erano nell’orbe romano, massime al tempo de’ Cesari, i Teatri.Quando si consideri che solo in questa, elegante sì, ma piccola città di Pompei vi fossero due teatri, il comico e il tragico ed un anfiteatro, tutti di tanta capacità, si può avere una prova abbastanza conveniente di questa asserzione, ed un’altra poi se ne avrà ancora nel fatto che non si fosse paghi di ... Read more

    S$ 2.99 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Singer Featherweight Restoration Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Repair, Rewire, Adjust, Maintain and Preserve 221 & 222K Vintage Sewing Machines with Confidence

    by Margaret E. Whitmore ...
    RESTORE YOUR SINGER FEATHERWEIGHT WITH CONFIDENCE! WITHOUT GUESSWORK, COSTLY MISTAKES, OR CONFUSING TECHNICAL MANUALSHas your Singer Featherweight been sitting untouched because you're afraid of damaging it?Is your machine sewing uneven stitches, running stiff, making noise, or showing signs of age after years of storage?Are you tired of scattered online advice, vague repair explanations, and ... Read more

    S$ 13.67 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HowExpert Guide to Coin Collecting

    The Ultimate Handbook for Collecting Rare Coins, Building Your Coin Collection, and Investing in Numismatic Treasures

    by HowExpert ...
    If you’re ready to collect rare coins, build your coin collection, and invest in numismatic treasures, HowExpert Guide to Coin Collecting is your ultimate resource. Whether you’re a curious beginner or an experienced coin collector refining your strategies, this step-by-step guide offers the tools, techniques, and insights you need to thrive in the fascinating world of coin collecting.What You’ll ... Read more

    S$ 13.80 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HowExpert Guide to Currency Collecting

    A 60-Day C.U.R.R.E.N.C.I.E.S. System to Master Currency Collecting, Grade Like a Pro, and Build a Paper Money Legacy

    by HowExpert ...
    HowExpert Guide to Currency Collecting is your complete 60-day step-by-step system to mastering the art, science, and strategy behind paper money collecting—from historical rarities and global treasures to star notes, misprints, and investment-grade pieces. Whether you're a curious beginner or an experienced hobbyist, this day-by-day guide helps you build a focused, well-organized, and deeply ... Read more

    S$ 13.80 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mint Condition, Fake Story

    The Collectibles Con, the Replica, and the Receipt That Proves Nothing

    by Dominic Kapoor ...
    Mint Condition, Fake StoryThe Collectibles Con, the Replica, and the Receipt That Proves NothingBy Dominic KapoorA convincing certificate. A familiar seller. A pristine holder. A receipt that looks official.None of those details answers the question that matters most: what does the evidence actually prove?Mint Condition, Fake Story is a practical field guide for collectors who want to buy with ... Read more

    S$ 6.89 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Names and How to Read Them

    A Manual for Art Collectors and Students

    by H. Inada, A. J. Koop ...
    Long established as the standard reference tool for the identification of Japanese names on works of art, and is therefore essential for collectors, galleries, auction-houses, restorers and students. A reprint of the first (1923) edition. ... Read more

    S$ 100.81 SGD

  • Frozen Time

    by Morgan Reyes ...
    In January 1945, as the Red Army closed in on East Prussia, one of the most celebrated rooms ever built — six tons of golden, glowing amber, gifted by a Prussian king to a Russian tsar and stolen back by the Nazis two centuries later — vanished without a trace. It has never been found.Frozen Time tells the full story of the material behind that mystery: a fossilized tree resin, forty-five million ... Read more

    S$ 3.79 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Double Your Money in Antiques in 60 Days

    Turn Your Collecting Hobby into a Profitable Weekend Sideline or Full-Time Business

    by George Grotz ...
    Popular antiques expert George Grotz reveals how to make real money in the antiques trade--must reading for every collector, auction-goer, and flea-market fanatic. ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • Picker's Pocket Guide to Bottles

    How to Pick Antiques Like a Pro

    by Michael Polak ...
    Buried TreasuresWhen a brilliant and rare flask sold at auction for a record $176,670 a few years ago, a secret was unearthed - bottles are true buried treasures. Discover for yourself what veteran bottle hunters have known for years with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking bottles. Learn what seasoned collectors look for and what they value in this easy-to-follow and indispensable pocket guide ... Read more

    S$ 7.84 SGD

  • Picker's Pocket Guide - Signs

    How to Pick Antiques Like a Pro

    by Eric Bradley ...
    Signs of SuccessDiscover what the pros know with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking advertising signs. Learn what seasoned collectors look for and what they value in this easy-to-follow and indispensable pocket guide.YOU'LL UNCOVER:• The best categories of signs: beer, Coca-Cola, petroliana, food and drink, farm and implement, home and garden, and neon signs• Practical strategies from top ... Read more

    S$ 14.27 SGD

  • Antique Trader Answers to Questions About Antiques & Collectibles

    by Kyle Husfloen ...
    Series series Antique Trader
    What can you tell me about...?Antique Trader editor-at-large Kyle Husfloen has answered that question thousands of times in his popular column "Kyle on Antiques" published in Antique Trader and The Antique Trader's Collector Magazine & Price Guide.Here Kyle compiles a varied selection of some of his favorite columns. Kyle shares historical information about the items, along with an estimated value ... Read more

    S$ 12.20 SGD

  • Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Bibliographical Romance

    by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Cooper White ...
    Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Bibliomania; or Book-Madness is at once a history, taxonomy, and theatrical celebration of obsessive book collecting. First published in 1809 and substantially expanded in 1811, it combines dialogues, anecdotes, bibliographical notices, imagined cases, and literary quotation to portray the bibliomaniac as both comic eccentric and participant in a serious intellectual ... Read more

    Was S$ 2.98 SGD Now S$ 1.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Louis Vuitton Luggage

    by Laia Farran Graves ...
    With a dedication to luxury and practicality, Louis Vuitton designed his unique lightweight, airtight luggage in 1854 and ensured that jetsetters all over the globe could travel in comfort and style. It was a creation that founded a fashion house and became a standard-bearer for all travel pieces of the future.Exploring the history from traditional box-making to the revolution of the stackable ... Read more

    S$ 12.42 SGD

  • Bibliomania; or Book-Madness

    Enriched edition. A Bibliographical Romance

    by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Savannah Clarke ...
    In "Bibliomania; or Book-Madness," Thomas Frognall Dibdin offers an exuberant exploration of the cult of book collecting that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This richly detailed text blends literary criticism, personal narrative, and a whimsical embrace of bibliophilia, employing a satirical tone to critique the excesses and peculiarities of avid book collectors. Dibdin'Äôs ... Read more

    S$ 2.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guía Práctica del Rolex Vintage

    Un manual de supervivencia para la aventura del Rolex vintage

    by Colin A Whte ...
    Series series Classic
    Una práctica enciclopedia para entusiastas, coleccionistas, buscadores y aficionados a los relojes Rolex vintage. Este libro de fácil consulta contiene información crucial, datos y especificaciones, detalles esenciales provenientes de catálogos y variantes de los ejemplares más deseados y coleccionables de Rolex.Portable, de amena lectura y fácil de usar, esta guía desmitifica el lenguaje cifrado ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Design Techniques

    Enhancing User Experience Through Innovative Digital Solutions

    by Grace Turner ...
    In this comprehensive guide to digital design, you'll embark on a journey of innovation and creativity to enhance user experience through cutting-edge digital solutions.From the fundamentals of UI design to the complexities of UX, this book will equip you with the essential knowledge and skills to create engaging and impactful digital experiences. Discover the latest design principles, techniques, ... Read more

    S$ 9.88 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Holography and Philately

    Postage Stamps with Holograms

    by Hans I Bjelkhagen ...
    Holograms on postage stamps have become a new topical subject in philately, and there has been a growing interest among philatelists in collecting such items for many years now. It was more than 35 years ago when the first definitive postage stamp with a hologram was issued in Austria in 1988. Since then many countries have issued hologram stamps or souvenir sheets, some of them on more than one ... Read more

    S$ 8.27 SGD

  • Encyclopaedia of Igbo Artefacts

    by Dandy Ahaoma Ahuruonye ...
    This Encyclopaedia of Igbo Artefacts represents a seminal work of reclamation, at once a definitive scholarly compendium and a lyrical homecoming. It invites the reader on a profound journey through the sculptural genius, ritual technologies, and everyday arts of the Igbo world, restoring context and voice to a heritage often displaced or fragmented. Moving beyond mere inventory, this volume ... Read more

    S$ 11.39 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From One Auction Buyer and Reseller To Another

    by Marques Vickers ...
    This edition is the easy-to-follow guide offers detailed and practical advice on successfully buying, consigning and e-commerce reselling of valuables and inventories through live regional auction houses. The book's straightforward language introduces little known profit outlets and potential passive income streams and through the lucrative, fast-paced industry of auction buying and sellingThe ... Read more

    S$ 7.58 SGD

  • Expansive Pairpoint Design Name Index

    by Rob Smith ...
    Presents an expansive new index of Pairpoint (and predecessor Mt. Washington) cut and engraved decorative designs of the Brilliant Era and beyond. Comprising over 5,500 entries in design name (or number) order, citations were accumulated and integrated from seven sources. The resulting index provides coverage of several hundred distnct designs, enabling quick access to printed as well as online ... Read more

    S$ 3.80 SGD

  • Monster Cereal Box Premiums - The 1970’s: A Groovy Decade of Crunchy-Sweet Fun

    Monster Cereal Box Premiums, #1

    by Jonathon Jones ...
    Series Book 1 - Monster Cereal Box Premiums
    Get out that dusty Abba album and break out your Disco shoes, because you're headed towards a retro cereal box full of fun. Whether you're an old-timer who longs for the days of your childhood, or even a brand new collector of General Mills Monster Cereal premiums, this book is sure to please. Filled with over 250 pictures, 45 collectible types, and even a price guide which covers the last ten ... Read more

    S$ 3.79 SGD

  • Peranakan Chinese Porcelain

    Vibrant Festive Ware of the Straits Chinese

    by Kee Ming-Yuet ...
    With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes.Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Strait of Malacca in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Peranakan Chinese porcelain is enjoying a resurgence of interest among collectors.Straits-born Chinese, or Peranakans, in Penang, Malacca and Singapore, used this ornate and colorful enamelware on ... Read more

    S$ 20.48 SGD

  • Buying & Selling Antiques & Collectibl

    For Fun & Profit

    by Joan Bingham, Don Bingham ...
    Written for both beginners and experienced collectors, this antiques guide provides descriptions of some of the more prized antiques and collectibles, and explains how to find them and how to resell them.How can you recognize depression glass? How do you find valuable antiques at garage sales? And how can you get into the antiques business yourself? Buying & Selling Antiques is the perfect ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD