•Earn Money While You Sleep
There is no better feeling than earning money while you sleep. Some lucky people have money on deposit; others own buy-to-let property or equities. All very good investments, but you need to start with a lot of money to get a decent return. So what about the man with a thousand dollars? How does he earn money while he sleeps? Well there are plenty of opportunities on the Internet. What about considering Domain Parking? Buy a domain name with either a .com, .net or .co.uk ending and park it with...
•Japanese Scotch Triumphs
In 1975 a friend asked me if I wanted to become involved in the marketing of a new whisky, from India. A few days later he arrived with a brown bottle in the shape of an eagle and poured me a glass of amber liquid, which looked like any other whisky I had ever seen. It smelled like whisky too. But it tasted like engine oil, with an aftertaste of Liquafruta - a particularly revolting cold remedy preferred by an aunt I spent my summers with as a child. Or at least that's how I remember it now,...
•Little Masterpieces at Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair
The International Art and Antiques Fair opened last week at the Olympia Exhibition Hall, Kensington, west London and continues until 15th June. I attended, as I do every year, excited, hoping to find some small treasure. My interest is Chinese art and antiques, which I have bought and sold, and collected for more than thirty years. I try to visit most of the Art and Antiques fairs in the UK and some in Europe and the US each year.
From a Chinese art point of view Olympia was a disappointment...
•Two Old Treasures - Picasso and Mike Cunningham
I am a treasure hunter. I don't mean that I leave the house each morning armed with a pick and a shovel and an old map marked with an X. No. My tools are the Antique Trade Gazette's auction guide, my old motor and forty-years accumulated knowledge of art and antiques. I travel the world looking for mistakes made by auction houses and dealers wherever I can find them. I eat most days, but I'm not getting rich.
Picture restorer, dealer, Mike Cunningham was one of the greatest treasures I ever...
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