Hints and tips:
...The deal’s prospectus notes that Sotheby’s Financial was founded back in 1988 to enable “its clients worldwide to unlock liquidity in fine art, luxury items, and other collectibles through financing solutions...
...Take the Gem and Jewelry Museum in Bangkok, run by the Gem and Jewelry Institute of Thailand (GIT)....
...My sister-in-law has a lot of jewellery that she got from various family members, and she’s used this service called Spur Jewelry, where they take old jewellery and they’ll make a new thing out of it....
...But Stairway to Kevin is anything but scruffy – packs of screws and miscellaneous guitar bits are neatly aligned on walls....
...Five items. Like I looked up how many items we actually buy on average....
...Consumers also spent less on big-ticket items like cars, electronics, and furniture....
...Jorge’s website offers around 800 items — 400 designs and their variations — with prices ranging from nearly £750 to more than £50,000, and with private sales of higher value pieces of up to £700,000....
...What stood out, DD’s Antoine Gara and the FT’s Kadhim Shubber and Joshua Oliver reported, was the stunning illiquidity of FTX and its treasure trove of miscellaneous assets of questionable value....
...Dating from the late 16th century, they had been kept for hundreds of years in a volume of miscellaneous letters, bound together in red goatskin for the library of a French noble family, until the Bibliothèque...
...“It isn’t any more about the attainment of a luxury item; it’s about how people want to express themselves through jewellery,” says Jones....
...An old Fornasetti cabinet would, for certain, be high up on my top 10 list of items of furniture I’d like to own....
...(Open one of these at your peril: you’ll be hit by a volley of miscellaneous objects: an iron, maybe, a discarded lampshade, a box of jam jars for all that marmalade I definitely did not make.)...
...WHAT TO READCostume Jewelry for Haute Couture by Florence Müller. Jewelry by Chanel by Patrick Mauriès. WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Constantly rummaging for work key cards and other miscellaneous items at the bottom of your bag? Well search no more, thanks to Trunk x Porter’s collaboration tote....
...Often, customers forget that they have left items in the pockets; the Newcastle repair centre has a box overflowing with miscellaneous items....
...As well as “missing” items, disputes can often arise over the value of disclosed jewellery and watches, with one party asserting items are worth less than the other party claims, in an attempt to reduce...
...As Peklar Pilavjian, co-owner of the Vincent Jewelry mart, says: “It’s a luxury item; it’s always the first to go and the last to come back.”...
...He is currently the charismatic star of a popular daily programme on the France2 channel called Affaire Conclue (in the show, members of the public try to sell miscellaneous items to a panel of specialists...
...Spending on miscellaneous goods, including health, beauty and jewellery, went up 6.1 per cent in January, reflecting consumer preference for small treats over big-tickets items, Mr Antipof said....
...This led The Spectator magazine to describe it as “a bewildering mix of overpriced drink and junk food, haphazardly arranged magazines, miscellaneous stationery and seasonal tat . . . the bedlam is littered...
...If the razzmatazz for the collection was lacking for some of the top-priced paintings, the Rockefeller resonance made itself felt in the 650 miscellaneous items — including cufflinks, candlesticks and several...
...Visa’s data show that shoppers spent less on expensive items such as cars and Christmas trips in November, but more on “miscellaneous goods” like cosmetics and visits to beauty salons....
...Public Malaysian officials and their associates were accused by American prosecutors of using the stolen funds to buy luxury items, like a yacht, a Picasso painting and jewelry....
...Over the five items tested, drinks can be as much as 31 per cent of the total bill or as little as 21 per cent....
...This will surely result in a dramatic increase in the sales of miscellaneous items that people don’t really want or need. David Coombs Corby, Northants, UK...
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