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Watches, everybody has one or even multiple ones. Some wear it as jewelry, some as a stopwatch and still others wear it simply to keep track of time. Whether you're a watch collector or simply like to wear a nice watch, we're...
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With 8 number one hits in the US as well as the UK, a career history spanning over 50 years, and still performing today, this band definitely has time on their side. The Stones have become one of the most...
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The life of Charlie Chaplin was an interesting one. His life inspired many actors and comedians over the years and April the 16th is his birthday. On that day he would have been 127 years old, had he still lived...
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Some 3,800 metres of water a sunken ship's interior decays, but once upon a time it was a glamorous universe of its own.
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Postcards have found their way around the world for over 150 years now, resulting in an infinite collection of beautiful and fascinating pictures and stories. In this article, you can learn more about why people collect postcards and how to...
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Buying a new watch is always a fun adventure. You have to determine what kind of requirements you want your watch to have. For instance: do you want an automatic or quartz movement, do you want a mineral, plexi, or sapphire...
Interviews
A couple of weeks ago, we had a special item in our auctions: a signed Panini sticker album by football legend Pelé himself. The sticker album contains 271 photos of all the participating football teams of the world championship of 1970...
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Perhaps you can distinguish Jack Daniel’s from Famous Grouse and Johnnie Walker from Old Tavern just by taking a few sips. But do you know the difference between ‘whisky’ and ‘whiskey’? Read and learn about the significant differences. In collaboration with...
Interviews
Remember the tweed jacket and the little black dress? Both are classics, and have firmly take their places in the fashion hall of fame. It seems that no matter what Chanel creates, their designs are always iconic and timeless. No...
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Each week, we auction an enormous amount of incredible items. More often than not, items have either an incredible story or a certain historical value, that you might not know about. We’d like to change that! This week, we discuss an...
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Per the Oxford English dictionary the definition of time is ‘the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.’ That’s all good and well but have you ever wondered when people...
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If you are still glued to the television each night, then you might have seen our commercial pop up. We’ve received a couple of mails about the painting that is featured in the commercial, so we decided we'd give you...
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In today's world of cutting edge technology and endless possibilities for game design and development, some may have forgotten about the hidden gems from the past. These retro games are some of today’s rarest and most pricey video games! It...
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An antiques fair or auction can be overwhelming to the untrained eye, so we had a chat to one of Catawiki’s expert antiques and curios auctioneers, Dési van Rhee, about what she looks for in an antique, and what you...
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The romantic opulence of the Indian Mughal Empire is exemplified in all it’s glory in the shape of this rare and graceful gold necklace, encrusted with emeralds, diamonds, and enamelled decorative motifs. In the time of its creation in the...