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1. Silver
Collecting silver is one of the many specialized phases of antique collecting. It requires considerable study by the uninitiated, for the average person can't distinguish between sterling silver and German silver.
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2. Wood Carvings
It encompasses everything from a simple, hand-cut decoration on the leg of a chair to the most exquisite wood sculpture.
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3. Card Games
While the Chinese contend that playing cards were invented in 1120 A.D.
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4. Checkers And Chess
The object of the game is to capture all of your opponent's men. Most of us are familiar with the game, which is known in England as draughts, and have played it as children.
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5. Sgraffito
Sgraffito has long been used in decorative plaster work, as evidenced by wall panels in some ancient Egyptian tombs, but in ceramics it first gained ascendance in Byzantium (now called Istanbul), during the period when that city was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire.
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6. Surface Alteration - Carving And Incising
The carving of designs into the surface of ceramic ware is among the oldest of decorative techniques, examples having been discovered from pre-dynastic Egypt and ancient China.
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