Trade Secrets. What Antique Dealers Don't Want You to Know    by martin horan
Price: $9.99 USD. 34120 words. Language: English. Published on April 3, 2013. Nonfiction » Antiques & Collectibles » General.
Trade Secrets shows what art & antiques dealers, including honest ones, don't want you to know about their business or how it functions. It will show you how to spot the different types, earn their respect, how to protect yourself from being conned by dealers and auctioneers and note the devious tricks of bidders. Learn how to ferret at auctions and differentiate between copies, repros and fakes.

Autograph Hell    by Charles G. Irion
Price: $6.99 USD. 37680 words. Language: English. Published on December 9, 2009. Nonfiction » Antiques & Collectibles » General.
This book is for everyone who has or will be exposed to the autograph business. Autograph Hell is both enlightening and disturbing. It exposes the truth about collecting. Follow the author’s journey as he quickly finds a world filled with falsified documents and counterfeit signatures - most of which are "authenticated" by the autograph experts who control this multi-million dollar business.