She was mildly surprised that some of her designs that had survived the dustbin had become collectors' items.
The idea is to help customs officers, art dealers and collectors identify items that may have been sacked or stolen.
The collectors' items were part of the cargo on the 8, 000-tonne SS Politician, which sank off the shores of Eriskay, in the outer Hebrides, in 1941.
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Brown bought the 5-ton monument, paying for it with cash and two peculiar collectors' items: a Stradivarius violin and a silver Newport yachting trophy from the 1920s.
Scope also uses promotional tricks, ranging from a month-long promotion of maternity and baby clothes to adverts featuring Chris Tarrant, a television personality, appealing for vinyl records (rapidly becoming collectors' items), to lure in customers.
These are the holy grails of the baseball-collecting world, items hardcore collectors dream will one day be found.
While the panel members said they had no proof, they suspected some of the looting was "commissioned theft" in which collectors arranged for precious items to be stolen for a fee.
Thanks to a host of clever search features, it can match up sellers and collectors of even the most esoteric items.
The sell-off was a bonanza for two Italian collectors, Ilario Tamassia and Nicolas Petsalis-Diomidis, who bought the items after Callas died in 1977 at the age of 53.
We assembled baseball collectors and dealers to help us come up with a list of the 10 items that are most coveted but yet to be uncovered.
From his home outside Toledo, Ohio, Winnie is constantly traveling to conventions, looking for obscure items on the Internet or swapping stories, and occasionally Spider-Man collectibles, with his fellow collectors.
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