How eBay Sellers Sometimes Find the Strangest Things Hidden Between the Covers in Old Books and Magazines
 

When you are searching through old books and magazines at auction and flea markets, you will often find other items lurking inside those pages which are potentially much more valuable than the actual publication itself.  You might find a bookmark, for instance, left behind many years ago, which is now valuable and might fetch a good price on eBay.

Or it could be a postcard or photograph someone placed in a book to keep it flat and stop it from getting dirty, but they forgot about it and you find it many decades later. So what was once a common item is now a rare collectible and in excellent condition.

My own experience of hidden finds in products I'm looking to sell on eBay has included in memoriam cards which were funeral cards created in their hundreds whenever a person died in Victorian times, not only celebrities but less prominent individuals also. 

Only recently in a book I paid less than two dollars for at online auction I found sixteen funeral cards for men killed in mining accidents at New Shildon Colliery in the North East of England in 1880 and another very ornate design to commemorate children killed when a public building collapsed on top of them in Sunderland in the mid 1800s.

Keep an eye out for similar items in books and magazines which in themselves might be dirty and damaged and attracting no interest at boot sales and flea markets, or local auctions and collectors’ fairs. These are the items no one else wants anyway, so you’ll pay very little for them, and the extra contents might fetch you a really big bonus on eBay.