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Starting an online collectibles business

Have you noticed, Ebay doesn't love collectibles sellers any more? We tried selling a few things there but it feels to much like a treadmill. Tons of rules, frequent ugly rule changes, and at the end of the day you have to get up an do it again the next day. We like starting online business that we can buld once and let them run on autopilot after that.

 

Amish Hex Signs

AmishHexSigns.com are colorful wall plaques made for sale to tourists. The same signs can also be found on Amish quilts. At one point we lived in a house with dark wood beams and nailing the plaques to the beams brightened them up and made …

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Antique Brass

AntiqueBrass.net
Brass has been a useful and popular metal for many items for hundreds of years. The brass collectibles section of Ebay has well over a thousand items listed at any one time. These include items from

Lamps 222
Tools & Locks 175
Metalware 150
Sewing 80
Tobacco related 60 as …

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Antique Christmas

AntiqueChristmas.com is a domain I first registered in 2002. I have tested a variety of content there and one year did well income wise with an affiliate link to a Christmas shop.

I had gotten indications that most of the visitors were actually looking for information …

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Antique Coffee Grinders Mills

AntiqueCoffeeGrinder.us is the term most commonly used to search for these items. However, I notice that in the old hardware store catalogs from the 1920-1930’s they are called mills, not grinders. Apparently, the word usage has changed. They will make good websites …

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Antique Copper

AntiqueCopper.info This subject has a lot of natural interest as well as a natural tie to Roycrofters & the Craftsman Era.

Exact search

Antique copper 720 Ebay 5,500
Antique copper pots 320
Antique copper pot 110 Ebay 110
Antique copper faucet 140 Ebay 79
Antique Copper kettle 110 Ebay 45
Antique copper findings 91 Ebay 190

 

Antique Dishes

Antique-Dishes.org I have always been surprised at how cheap antique dishes can be purchased. I think many, many people got a set of “good” dishes for their wedding, and seldom or never used them. When their household is split up the dishes come onto the …

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Antique Dolls

AntiqueDoll.info will be a website about old dolls. This is a very popular item to collect and the range of materials and values is huge. Ebay is a happy hunting ground for doll collectors and will be used to research the …

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Antique Engagement Ring

antiqueengagementring.us is a mini site built to benefit from the vintage ring sales market on Ebay. There are several hundred of these at any one time so they are quite popular.

The site is monetized by linking to the auctions.

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Antique Lighting

Antique-Lighting.org I have an early 1900’s lighting fixture book that would look good published on this site.

Exact match
Antique lighting 4,400
Antique light fixtures 880
Antique lighting fixtures 390
Antique brass lights 260
Antique lights 590

 

Antique Scrimshaw

AntiqueScrimshaw.info Scrimshaw is the popular search term with 8,000 exact matches. Antique scrimshaw is second with 480. However there are also 480 Ebay auctions ofr antique scrimshaw too, so it is a popular item.

Anything like this which is related to ivory has some potential …

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Antique Teapot

AntiqueTeapot.info Tea has been a popular beverage for thousands of years so teapots have been around that long too. Since tea is popular in many cultures there are many different styles of teapot available.

Exact matches
Teapot 33,000
Teapots 18,000
Tea pot 15,000
Tea pots 12,000
Glass teapot 4,400
Glass …

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Antique Vases

Antique-Vases.info Antique vases are common on Ebay. You can probably find any style or design you want.

 

Antique Wood

AntiqueWood.info Although this phrase is rather non-specific, it turns out to be a good search term for finding interesting old wood things on Ebay. Wood has always been a popular raw material and could be turned into all sorts of interesting and useful items with …

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Bakelite Antiques

BakeliteAntiques.com would be a great website for an Ebay seller with a lot of these products. There are more than 4,000 individual auctions for Bakelite items at any one time, so there is clearly a huge demand for them. There is also some serious problem with …

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Bobbin Lace

Bobbin-Lace.com is a website for bobbin lace collectors. There was a period of time when lace was all handmade. Thousands of people earned their living making fancy lace by hand. Bobbin lace was one kind of product. The business was popular …

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Butter Dishes

ButterDishes.info Butter, or these days margarine, has always been served with meals. In the days before air conditioning it would melt so the butter dish needed to prevent it from running out of the dish. Butter may stay out for some time, so when not …

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Candy Dish

CandyDish.info Hard candy displayed in a fancy dish is popular at Christmas and other times. This makes a candy dish a nice gift for a hostess and means there are many antique candy dishes available now. Ebay has 4,500 available at any one time.

Their distribution …

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Cast Iron

Cast-Iron.us There are lots of cast iron antiques and it is still popular for many products. I had already built the site on the dot US domain when I got Cast-Iron.info. At that point in time I thought the dot info …

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DDR Zeit

DDRZeit.com is the term our German (East) exchange student used a lot in his conversations. Life after the wall came down was NOT the same as before, and not all the changes were perceived as a good thing.

From the standpoint of …

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Erzgebirge, Germany Collectibles

Original-Erzgebirge.com is one of our “listings” sites where we display, discuss and sell our collection of wooden figures and handcrafts from Germany’s Ezgebirge region. We also have OriginalErzgebirge.com pointing to that site.

We are still loading pictures and images …

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Estate Jewelry

Estate-Jewelry.biz is a site for featuring Ebay auctions of Estate Jewelry.
Estate-Jewelry.info acquired as a possible better tld.

Exact match
Estate Jewelry 12,000 Ebay 1,100
Antique estate jewelry 720

 

Expertic

Expertic.biz This site features folk art from East Germany (DDR) before the wall came down. Expertic was the label placed on items which were made for export to generate hard currency. It mostly shows up as a sticker on the base of wooden …

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German Nutcrackers

German Nutcracker Nutcracker figures and nutcrackers have been made in Germany for several hundred years. It was even recognized by a USA stamp featuring a variety of German nutcrackers at Christmas 2008.

We have collected some of these and will publish pictures and descriptions …

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German Smoker

German smopker is a site with pictures of our collection of German Smokers. These popular hand crafted works of art have been made in the Erzgebirge region of Germany for many years. The figures are hollow and have a metal tray to hold …

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Hatpin

Hatpins.us This website currently displays Ebay auctions for hatpins.
Hatpin.info This is a collectible, frequently sold on Ebay. The auctions include much more than the old fashoned long hat pins. There are tons of new hatpins made for cowboy hats, etc. also …

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Head Vases

HeadVases.com

Head vases are very popular collectibles that come in thousands of shapes and styles, from hundreds of manufacturers. There are whole books written about them and their values range from cheap to extremely expensive.

Exact match

Head vases 1,300 Ebay 682
Head vase 590
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Inkwells

Inkwells.info Inkwells are a very popular collectible and some of them bring a lot of money on Ebay.

Exact match
Inkwells 880 Ebay 608
Antique inkwells 390
Antique inkwell 170
Inkwell silver 170

 

Japanese Ivory

JapaneseIvory.com Netsuke figures are the most famous Japanese ivory product. These sometimes naughty figures sell well on Ebay.

Exact match
Japanese ivory 140
Mammoth ivory 1,600
Ivory jewelry 1,000
Elephant ivory 880
Carved ivory 720
Elk ivory jewelry 720
Ivory beads 720
Elk ivory 590
Ivory carvings 590
Antique ivory 480
Ivory …

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Canine (K9) Collectibles

K9Collectibles.com Dog collectibles are very popular on Ebay.

 

Lace Hankies

LaceHankies.com Kleenix has replaced the hanky and even fancy ones with handmade lace sell for almost nothing on Ebay. Times have changed.

 

Old Gold Watches

OldGoldWatches.com Old gold watches are very collectible and many are sold on Ebay.

There are only 73 searches for old gold watches, but there are 86 Ebay auctions for them. Obviously all the people interested in buying or selling these items don’t waste …

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Pine Needle baskets

PineNeedleBaskets.com is a site which will have pictures and descriptions of various examples of this folk art craft.

Exact matches

Pine needle baskets 1,000
Pine needle basket 390
Pine needle coiling 390
Pine needle basketry 210
Pine needle basket weaving 110
Pine needle weaving 91
How to …

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Rare Patches

RarePatches.com will make a great site for a patch collector. Never heard of them? Ebay has more than 30,000 listed just in the “Collectibles” category!

This collectibles domain will work really well for a patch collector who wants to display his own collection and perhaps buy, ...

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Souvenir Spoons

Souvenir-Spoons.com These made a nice, inexpensive collectible. My mother had a spoon rack on the kitchen wall that she enjoyed a lot.

Google says there are only 590 exact match searches, but there are 1,800 eBay auctions. Obviously buyers and sellers don’t bother searching, ...

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World of Antiques

WorldOfAntiques.org This would make a good “hub” site that would have short descriptions about a wide range of antiques with links to them. It might also make a good antiques directory.