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It was not until the 1900s that perfume, then usually called ’scent’, was sold in ready filled bottles. Previously scent was bought in plain bottles, functional not decorative, and most ladies (also men) owned an array of usually exquisitely ornate and intricately made bottles, sometimes made uniquely for them, often hand created, occasionally monogrammed or engraved and generating high prices today on eBay and elsewhere.

On eBay, recently, a globular – globe shaped – milk glass scent bottle attracted 38 bids and $1386.38 finishing price, and a Lalique scent bottle fetched $950. These are low prices compared to others selling recently on eBay or at offline auction houses. Consider, for instance, a 1910 Wiener Werkstatte cut glass globular design (there’s that word ‘globular’ again and key to a very popular shape) that sold at Sotheby’s for £1,000, and an egg shaped bottle/flask made from silver and hallmarked 1882 that sold by the same company for £550.

Things to Know About Scent Bottles

* This is a great area for speculating and risking a few pounds on something that might quadruple your investment or fetch much more. So many different collecting themes meet in the overall scent bottle experience that even the cheapest and seemingly most ordinary perfume bottles bought for a pound or two at flea markets, jumble sales and boot sales, can attract multiple bidders and high finishing prices on eBay. The trick is to focus on bottles with two or more collecting interests, such as maker and material, for instance, a Lalique glass bottle with silver stopper, or a bottle made by Bacarrat and decorated with gold leaf. Another good example is where original and subsequent use converge, as where a bottle once holding perfume can be used as a paperweight today. Two collecting interests in one item all but guarantees multiple bidders and enviable finishing prices.

* At flea markets and boot sales look out for box and tray lots of seemingly low value items, such as bottles of half-used scent from the 1950s and earlier. Some with undamaged labels detailing maker and perfume name, are popular with advertising enthusiasts, and like a 1930s bottle of Saturday Night Lotion featured in Millers’ Collectables Price Guide can be worth up to £35 each, some much more. A good example is a 1930 bottle of Guerlain perfume ‘Guerlilas’ in Baccarat bottle that fetched £521.10 (about £280.00) on eBay, and a vintage bottle of Lotus Bleu Perfume by Moehr of Monte Carlo that fetched £78.00.

* A name can cause fierce bidding, for maker of bottle or perfume, better still both in one example. The big names to look for in bottle makers are Lalique (sumptuous glass creations often frosted or opalescent); Baccarat, specialising in quality crystal items, not just bottles; Galle, famed for stunning art nouveau designs that fetch high prices on eBay. Other popular perfume makers include Christian Dior, Guerlain, Estee Lauder, Avon. Avon created some of the world’s most beautiful containers and many bottle collectors seek exclusively Avon creations which can fetch upwards of £100 each. They’re not that hard to find at flea markets, or at boot sales where I picked up a 1969 Blue Blazer body powder shaker in the shape of Andy Capp which cost me 50p and is valued in Lyle’s A Fortune in Your Attic at £100.

* Andy Capp is just one of countless characters whose presence on a scent bottle can make an everyday object worth hundreds, even thousands of pounds. Cartoon characters are especially popular, such as Bonzo Dog (my favourite) whose image appeared on thousands of collectable items including scent bottles. Also look out for Felix the cat who recently made $650 on a scent bottle, and don’t overlook Disney characters, Betty Boop, Florence Upton Golliwogs.

* Amongst most popular subjects depicted on scent bottles are dogs and cats (cats seem more often to sell and at higher prices than dog depictions); hand painted flowers, place names on crested china bottles, almost anything of oriental interest.

* Some scent bottles, complete or just the stopper, were designed to be used later as paperweights, thereby reaching another popular collecting area and potential bidding wars between bottle and paperweight collectors. There’s nothing to stop you describing your item as a paperweight and even listing under ‘paperweights’ in the Collectibles category.

* Detail all possible collecting interests in the title for your bottle and reach the widest possible market, such as a French 19th Century Opaline Egg Scent Bottle made by Baccarat that’s just fetched $560.52 and doubtless appealed to collectors interested in: maker = Baccarat, subject = egg, material = opaline glass, age = 19th century.

Avril Harper is a business writer and eBay PowerSeller who has produced several guides to making money from eBay, including MAKE MONEY TEARING UP OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND SELLING THEM ON EBAY which you can read about at: http://www.magstoriches.com 103 POWERSELLER TIPS can be downloaded with other freely distributable reports and eBooks at http://www.avrilharper.com

Most people who have gone to a casino before have probably heard or even played a game of blackjack. Many people who have not even set foot in a casino before might have heard about this game or played it with friends or at parties. Unlike many card games where players pit themselves against each other, blackjack plays you against the bank or the dealer rather than against other people seated on the same table. Its most basic rule – come as close as possible to 21 without going over – can be fun and exciting and mentally challenging as well.

The game of blackjack is one of the older games that are still in existence and played extensively throughout the world. It is not flashy or attracts much attention than other card games such as Texas Hold’em Poker, but the game does have its own following at both online and offline gaming sites at most parts of the world. With its rich history, several strategies were developed and tested throughout the years and have been used by prominent players as well as renowned blackjack teams to gain an advantage over dealers and win the game. The following gives a brief overview of the history of blackjack and how it developed over the years as well as some brief insights into the basic strategies that newbies and veterans alike can use with their game.

A Brief History of Blackjack

Blackjack is played by millions of players worldwide and continues to grow more popular as many more people learn the magic behind this amazing game. To have a full understand of what blackjack is, it would be quite helpful to know a little bit of its history and how the game was developed. However, no one really knows exactly how or when and where the game actually started but the earliest recorded histories point to France, Italy or Spain as the birthplace of this card game.

Blackjack has several elements that are quite similar to the French chemin de fer. Spain on the other hand claims that blackjack is a descendant of an old game called “One and Thirty”, while the Italians believe that blackjack evolved from two other card games called “Baccarat” and “Seven and One-Half”. The term “blackjack” however, may have come from the French term vingt-et-un which means “twenty and one” which was used in the early eighteenth century France to call a hand with a jack of spades and an ace of spades as the first two cards drawn. A special price was given to anyone who receives such a hand and was eventually called “blackjack” as an alternative to the term vingt-et-un.

The game became famous in Europe but it took another hundred years before the game reached American soil, particularly during the early 1800s when the Wild West was born. Gambling was not illegal and there were actually several licensed gambling parlors available operating in various areas across the county and was a good source of revenues for civic purposes.

Basic Strategies Blackjack

The basic rules and strategies behind blackjack changed very little over the years, although most casinos employ certain in-house rules that would increase house advantage. Unlike other card games that rely solely on blind luck, blackjack is affected by mathematical percentages and probabilities that players can utilize to their advantage to balance out or even nullify the house advantage. However, you don’t have to be a mathematical genius to succeed in this game.

For anyone who is just learning the ropes and wanting to know more about blackjack, they must first learn the basic rules on how the game is played. Bets are placed first and the dealer deals the card and each of the players at the table get two. The cards can be played face up or handled manually by the players, while the dealers can have one card facing up while the other down. Players can now decide whether to hit or hold. If your hand is too low you can hit and try not to exceed 21. On the other hand, if your cards are high enough for you, you can simply hold or stand until the dealer shows his face down card to decide who won the deal.

Knowing these basic rules, you can now employ basic strategies such as: hitting or standing; splitting pairs; playing a soft hand; doubling down on a hard or soft hand and several other strategies that increase your chance of beating the dealer. These strategies may just be basic but these fundamentals are vital to have a full understanding of how the game should be played as what past and existing master have done – which eventually led to them winning the game.

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There are three types of casino card games — Poker, Black Jack and Baccarat. These games are played in almost every casino around the world. Though, some people play for leisure, there are those who gamble and bet. There are different types of Poker, Black Jack, and Baccarat. The card games played in casinos usually involve a lot of money on bets and the stakes are high.

Poker is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. A deck of cards consists of four suits, spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. Each suit has 13 cards. At times the game calls for more or less cards — the most common variation being the addition of wild cards such as jokers. Sometimes the ace might be the lowest rank card instead of the highest rank card. In some games, it may be both the lowest and the highest rank card. The joker is included in all combinations. The use of the joker depends on the type of the game. Any other card can also become the joker. The number of cards dealt depends on the game being played. In draw poker five cards are dealt, while in stud poker it may vary from five to seven. The other types of poker are Caribbean poker and Omaha Hi.

Black Jack or 21 originated from the French game called ‘Vingt-et-un.’ In American casinos, the rules are simplified but rigid. It is played with a pack of 52 cards. More often two different packs of cards are used. In the casinos, there are constant dealers. The dealer shuffles the cards and a player cuts the pack. Cards are dealt in the clockwise direction. Different methods of dealing are used depending on the stakes involved and the betting.

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The list of The Gambia’s casinos is surprisingly short for the country. While it is a small country, essentially the valley of the river Gambia, it has an open and thriving economy. It has also become one of the great destinations for European tourists in search of some winter sun.

In fact the country deliberately set out to become a tourist magnet for those escaping from the severity of a Northern European winter: something they’ve managed to do very well. So the shortness of the list of Gambia’s casinos is therefore something of a puzzle, it’s simply odd that there aren’t more.

That sort list of Gambia’s casinos in fact only contains two places: On Cape St Mary there is the Fajara Casino Club offering blackjack, slots, roulette and baccarat (very much a European gambling game and one the presence here shows who the likely players at the casino are).

There is also in Kanifing the Kololi Casino, offering again roulette, blackjack, baccarat and in addition, poker.

One of the interesting things about the country is that it was both the first and the last of the British colonies in Africa. The location and the natural port at the head of the great river (and the fresh water of the river itself) made it a natural stopping place for sailing ships to come in and restock their supplies before going on further afield.

A rather darker part of the country’s history was the associated part it played in the slave trade. That very port and the fact that ships were stopping there anyway made it one of the great trading centers of the trade across the Atlantic. In fact, when Alex Haley wrote his familial autobiography, ‘Roots’, he was able to trace his own line to Kunta Kinte, born in a small village on the north bank of the river. Some of the country’s tourist trade is thus based, that part of it which isn’t on Europeans looking for sun, on Americans rediscovering their roots.

In common with many other African counties the Gambia depended in the past upon the export of a commodity for it’s keep, in their case groundnuts (peanuts). While this is still important the dual industries of the port itself (much trans-shipment is done here) and the ever growing tourist industry have now taken up much of the strain.

We can expect, as that tourist trade continues to grow in both size and sophistication, for the list of Gambia’s casinos to grow.

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One of the recent advancements in online gaming is Live Dealer casino games. Real dealers and real games, just like you were at the Bellagio in Vegas, only you can start out with a bigger bankroll because you haven’t bucked up for airfare and hotel stays. You don’t have to tip the doorman either!

Rather than players going to the casino to test their skills, Live Gaming brings the excitement and atmosphere of the casino to the player. No longer does a player feel as if they are just playing against a computer. There are no robots in these poker rooms!

Live Gaming is the advancement in online gambling that brings players just a step away from feeling the excitement of the floor at the Venetian or Mirage. Did I mention the dealers are hot?

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What I like about the gaming experience at CasinoWebCam is that the bet outcomes are truly games of chance, not pre-determined computer outcomes. There is no random number generator or shady business with robots. It’s the real deal.

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I wanted to see if there were other Live Gaming sites out there. I came across Ladbrokes site a few years ago to wager on the UEFA Champs league and I was happy to find the now offer Live Dealer gaming,

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I loaded my account and decided to hit up the Live Baccarat tables. I wasn’t disappointed. If you’re new to Baccarat it’s the game James Bond plays so you know it’s cool. The game itself is real simple: Two cards are dealt to two hands, named Player and Banker. You can bet on the Player, Banker, Tie or any combination of the three. The object of the game is to correctly pick which hand will have the higher score, with the highest score in Baccarat being 9 and the lowest being 0. 10 through King have no value while Aces only count as one.

I wasn’t as successful compared to my winning blackjack session at Casinowebcam.com but I still enjoyed the experience. It was a thrill to play a real game with a real dealer. Next time I’ll show a little more restraint and not double down! Lessons learned.

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I haven’t played roulette since that crazy weekend at the Wynn so I decided to step into the Live Dealer online casino BetInternet and watch a beautiful dealer spin the wheel. Roulette has been a staple in every casino for hundreds of years. And nobody has found a strategy to defeat it. But I have my winning system.

Roulette was born in France in 1655 from mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal, a scientist known for his work in the field of probability, invented it as a perpetual motion machine and named it “Roulette” – French for “small wheel”. The American version of roulette changed the game by using a zero and a double zero on the wheel but the Monte Carlo casinos brought the more player-friendly, single-zero rule to the wheel, something European roulette practices today. Roulette is said to be the number of the “beast” because the numbers they put on the wheel, 0-36, add up to 666.