SEANO gave me an idea.. RESEARCH WEBSITE LIST

[famous turtle treasures]

I want to put together an extensive research website list covering as much as possible.

If you collect something and it has reference website where you can ID stuff or find prices I would like to hear about it.

Lets keep it simple with just the full website, and a short description of what you use it for.

www.replacements.com - crystal, silver and china ID / pricing
www.pyrexlove.com - pyrex pattern ID
www.suziemax.com - Depression glass, 40s, 50s, and 60s glassware patterns / ID
www.mygrannysatticantiques.com - China hallmarks
www.hlchina.com - fiesta colors / dates
www.danjohnson.com - halophane info
www.coinflation.com - coin melt values
www.midcenturymodernist.com mid century modern decor research
www.hiandlomodern.com danish modern / modernist / minimalist / research
www.kitco.com - precious metal spot prices

K I go the ball rolling I have some more in my inbox that some people were nice enough to send me, I'll get them on here too.

 

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[olivia11dancer]

ebay.com I check on the completed listings to determine values of items I want to sell.

 

[clovis97]

Great list! Thanks for sharing!!!!

As a side note, my wife is an avid Fiesta collector. The colors can be tricky to learn for anyone new to the hobby, and can be difficult to distinguish on the internet or in collector books.

Of course, it isn't rocket science, and a person can get a quick feel for what is vintage Fiesta and what is Post-86. Just be careful if you are new to Fiesta, or if you are not picking it up cheap. Once you've messed with it for a while, you can spot Fiesta a mile away.

I've seen more than a few people really, really, really overpay for Fiesta at auctions because they didn't know the difference between the new and the old. I've also seen hoards of mis-listed items on ebay too.

 

[SEANO]

Here are some I use.

www.PCGS.com -Coin prices, photo grades, history ect..
www.metalprices.com -Another scrap price page
www.abebooks.com -source for Used, New, Rare and Out of print books
www.925-1000.com -Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks
http://collectiblend.com/Cameras -Antique and classic cameras/lenses price guide.

Probably more links at home.

I "bookmark" as many as I can on my Iphone.. for the road trips.

 

[diggummup]

This is a good site for anything Fenton- http://www.fentonfan.com/
Here is one for id'ing California Pottery- http://www.calpotteries.com/pottery-marks-text/
Here is one for identification and marks on American Art Pottery- http://www.webteek.com/marks-pottery/
Here is a site for antiques in general if you look hard you can find just about everything on this one, very informative site- http://www.oldandsold.com/
Here is one for costume jewelry marks- http://www.illusionjewels.com/costumejewelrymarks.html
Here is one for postcards- http://www.playle.com/index.php
Vintage Levis- http://www.levisguide.com/
Old electronics and clocks and even some mechanical pencils- http://www.roger-russell.com/
Here is a site for ebooks on Arts: Porcelain, Ceramics, Pottery, Stoneware, Earthenware, Marks http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_SEARCH/search010artpotterya.asp for the advanced collectors and researchers
More to come, gotta hit the USPS

 

[jadeblackhawk]

Thanks for some new sites, here's some in return:

Watches:
http://elginwatches.org/
http://www.awci.com/
http://www.pixelp.com/gruen/
http://www.mybulova.com/Bulova-Vintage-and-Antique-Watches
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/clocks-n-watches/
http://www.nawcc.org/
http://forums.watchuseek.com/forum.php

General Jewels/jewelry:
http://www.gia.edu/index.html
http://www.squidoo.com/Opalgems
http://patft.uspto.gov/
http://www.jewelrypatents.com/
http://www.jewelrypatents.com/trifari1.html
http://www.house-of-francheska.co.uk/vintageads.htm
http://www.jmfelton.com/jetid1.htm

 

[famous turtle treasures]

Wow great links! I have a few things that I needed to research, and now I know right where to begin.

I am going to continue to post links here as I find new ones. I hope everyone else will too.

 

[goldinmypan]

Furniture Periods Reference
http://www.fantiques.com/periods/periods.html

bottle shape
http://www.sha.org/bottle/typing.htm

silver marks
http://www.silvercollection.it/ENGLISHSILVERMARKSXL.html

 

[SEANO]

http://www.tvlamps.net/motion_lamps.html

Don't know much about these, but I'll be buying if its cheap enough.

 

[jnkhntr]

Here is another. Keep in mind these are retail prices, but some of these bulbs are real cheap at garage sales and very high retail. Between the two there is profit to be made.

http://www.flashbulbs.com/BulbPrice.htm retail prices for photographic flash bulbs

 

[SEANO]

Here is another. Keep in mind these are retail prices, but some of these bulbs are real cheap at garage sales and very high retail. Between the two there is profit to be made.

http://www.flashbulbs.com/BulbPrice.htm retail prices for photographic flash bulbs

NICE "BULBS" WOW.

Good info., really. thanks!

 

[famous turtle treasures]

Vintage perfume research.

http://www.auntjudysattic.com/

 

[SEANO]

Gold Scrap Weight Conversion and Melt Value Calculator

http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/gold_calculator.aspx

Sterling Silver Weight Conversion and Melt Value Calculator

http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/ster_calculator.aspx

 

[philinchio]

http://www.videogamepricecharts.com/

Covers everything video game related, from the classics all the way to today.

 

[diggummup]

http://www.videogamepricecharts.com/

Covers everything video game related, from the classics all the way to today.

THANKS! I just listed a 32 game lot of PS1 games last night. This lets me know i'm not off base with my starting price of 19.99 for them all. The 3 Resident Evils are worth more than that.


Here is one for id'ing glass bottle marks and electrical insulators with links to related sites=
http://www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories/bottlemarks.html

 

[diggummup]

Just trying to keep this near the top.
Here is one for identifying makers and types of Carnival glass, very informative site if your into this kind of thing.-http://carnivalglass101.carnivalheaven.com/index.htm

Fire-King (including jade-ite)-http://www.fire-king.net/
Fire-King mugs-http://www.firekingmugs.com/index.html

 

[NaturalJWL]

I agree, any way to pin this up top >?

Great info here.

 

[SEANO]

Not too exciting, but its a site
http://www.silvercollecting.com/patternguides/rogersplatepatterns.html

 

[famous turtle treasures]

https://farfetchers.com/content/industrial-jielde-articulated-four-arm-floor-lamp

Time to get this post back to the top. This is a good site for research on the different kind of decor styles that I always am on the lookout for.

 

[Nightowl 280]

http://www.itemlookup.net/ upc look up nice if you have a newer item and there is a possiblity its fake or not sure what is it but has a upc