YORK COUNTY, Maine — Lower than usual housing inventory coupled with the increased demand of buyers hopeful to make “Vacationland” their home have led to another unprecedented year, one of Maine’s historical highs for the real estate market, said Maine Association of Realtors President Aaron Bolster. There were 33% fewer homes for sale in November 2021 compared to 2020 and 59% fewer than November 2019. However, demand remained “extraordinary for Maine’s residential real estate,” Bolster said in a press release. Home prices rose 11% this year and the number of residential real estate transactions was 4% above the same time period in 2020, according to Bolster. Nationally, prices rose by nearly 15%, Bolster said. “The high demand for Maine…
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Las Cruces recently welcomed a new coin shop on Missouri Avenue which specializes in vintage coins, trade tokens and bullion investments. Gary Henderson and his son-in-law, Joseph Santana, officially opened Las Cruces Coins & Collectibles July 22 with prize drawings and gifts for children lasting through the weekend. They have collectible coins — including silver dollars and Indian Head pennies — and they buy and sell precious metals. Bullion-type coins such as gold Buffalos and silver Eagles are offered for those interested in investing. More: City invites public feedback on cannabis business zoning and land use New Mexico trade tokens are another category…
Style Although they’ve recently been eclipsed by multi-functional sport watches and training apps, stopwatches were once an essential part of measuring athletic performance. And we’re not just talking about some hunk of plastic with a digital display—the stopwatches of yesteryear were precision-crafted machines that rivaled their wristwatch counterparts in style (which makes sense, since many great watchmakers also produced stopwatches). In the new Tracksmith x Wind Vintage collection, which launched last week, stopwatches finally get their due: The collection of 11 vintage mechanical stopwatches showcases the craftsmanship of these timepieces and highlights their important role in running. The collection came…
ZEXPRWIRE, On Saturday afternoon at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Frisco, Texas, thousands of passionate collectible and trading card fans and aficionados converged at the renowned Collect-A-Con event for the chance to buy, sell, and trade their own card collections.The more than 400 dealers and vendors on-hand showcasing collectible Pokemon cards, sports cards, comics, video games, vintage toys, and more, we’re also introduced to two new companies set on revolutionizing the way cards and collectibles are both obtained and valued with the launch of the Collector Coin and AGS Grading.The Collector Coin is a cryptocurrency that was…
Friends of the Milford Public Library will host a vintage books, jewelry and accessories sale in the Smith Conference Room from Saturday, April 24 to Friday, April 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturdays. The library is closed Sundays and Mondays. There will be books from mid-1800s through the 1960s, Delaware and regional books, first editions and unique finds, including old and new jewelry and antique items. For more information, call 302-422-8996. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Fetch.ai receives an average long-term technical score of 48 from InvestorsObserver’s research based on historical trading patterns. The proprietary scoring system weighs price movement from recent months to a year, analyzes the token’s support and resistance levels, and where it is relative to long-term averages to determine whether it’s a strong buy-and-hold investment opportunity. FET currently holds a superior long-term technical analysis score than 48% of cryptos in circulation. This ranking metric is most useful to buy-and-hold type investors looking for strong steady growth when allocating their assets. tokens with a high long and short-term technical score can help indicate…
Though Ravenna is the county seat, it’s only the fourth-largest community in Portage County. It was known for its glassworks, oatmeal production and carriage manufacturing in the 19th century. In the 20th century, it made munitions for three wars. It’s historic downtown got a facelift in the late 1990s, and today bustles with retail activity and in its role as the area’s legal, education and government center. Ravenna is 15 miles east of Akron and surrounded by Ravenna Township, bisected by state Route 59. One of the oldest communities in the area, Ravenna was founded in 1799 by Benjamin Tappan,…
To get there, I had piloted a Ford GT through a twilight snowstorm chasing the Argentine up winding country lanes to host a meal to rival the feasts of the late, great Jim Harrison. An intersection of all the things I love: Petrol. People. And Parties. Although we were cracking bottles of legendary wines from Burgundy with a chef who would soon become celebrated the world over, one of the introductions which remained with me the longest was not a person, a dish, or even a bottle of DRC. It was a liquid older than I was, golden, an amber…
In 1973, York-based antiquarian Joe K. Kindig III was studying a Sotheby’s London auction catalog when he noticed a set of five chairs from Ireland matched a chair at Winterthur museum in Delaware He phoned in a bid for the set. This signaled to the famed auction house that the chairs might be American. Sotheby’s withdrew the chair from sale in London so they could be studied by its American division. The chairs indeed matched a chair at Winterthur, the famed New Castle County museum. They were later sold and ended up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Colonial Williamsburg…
Dealers from across the country are getting into the Christmas spirit by dropping silver dollars and gold coins into Salvation Army buckets this December and by marking Saturday, December 18, as Free Coin Day. “Free Coin Day will be a celebration of collecting,” said event co-founder Rob Oberth. In 2019, Rob spearheaded the largest coin drop in history with the Great American Coin Hunt. Free Coin Day will be slightly different. Instead of sending millions of Americans out to hunt unusual and obsolete coins and paper money items in circulation, dealers will cut to the chase and offer members of…
The Certified Collectibles Group (CCG) has expanded its Sarasota, Florida footprint to 82,000 square feet through the purchase of a 21,000 square foot facility. CCG is the world’s leading provider of expert, impartial and tech-enabled services that add value and liquidity to collectibles. The company has been hiring at a rapid pace as it experiences tremendous growth in demand for its services amid a booming collectibles market. CCG now employs more than 400 people globally, with 330 in Sarasota. The new building will enable CCG to continue to grow its world-class team and operations. CCG is currently hiring for nearly…
Longtime friends Dallas Patterson, Cody Potter and Adam Ynfante instantly bonded when they discovered a shared interest in vintage items, rare finds and throwbacks. Each weekend, as they searched for hidden gems among the sea of streetwear, sports memorabilia and cassette tapes, it wouldn’t be unusual for them to bump into each other. “We’d go pick and thrift on our own, so in a sense, we were competitors first,” Patterson said. “Every time we’d go out, we would always end up bumping into each other. We would enjoy looking at each other’s stuff, and that’s when we started meeting up.…
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described in the section about different types. The branch of economic theory dealing with auction types and participants’ behavior in auctions is called auction theory. The open ascending price auction is arguably the most common form of auction in use throughout history. An auctioneer may announce prices, bidders may call out their bids themselves…