The Top 20 Searches for Antiques and Collectibles at Kovels for June 2007

Kovels the Web’s largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles, today released its list of the top 20 searches for June. The Kovels’ top 20 list is based on the results of hundreds of thousands of searches that took place on its website during the month of June 2007. People use price guides for a number of reasons, the most common being that they are just trying to determine the value of a specific item that they own. If an Item is not listed on the top 20 list, it does not necessarily mean that it is unpopular or that there is not a demand for it. It only means that in June there

was less interest.

1. Jewelry (Up from #2); 2. Coca Cola (Up from #3); 3. World War II (Down from #1); 4. Furniture (Up from #8); 5. Silver Plate (Up from #7); 6. Occupied Japan ( Down from #5); 7. Stove(Down from #4); 8. Lighters (Down from #6); 9. Bottles (No change); 10. Knives (Up from #11); 11. Bicycle (Not listed last month); 12. Swords (Up from #17); 13. Planters Peanuts (Not listed last month); 14. Records (Not listed last month); 15. Capo-Di-Monte Porcelain (Up from #18); 16. Paintings (Down from #10); 17. McCoy Pottery (Down from #12); 18. Phonograph (Not listed last month); 19. Fishing (Down from #14); 20. Lladro Porcelain (Down from #16). The Kovels’ “Top 20” list of antiques and collectibles has been published monthly since 2002 and is offered by Kovels.com as a service for collectors.

About the Kovels: Ralph and Terry Kovel are the authors of more than 95 books about collecting and antiques, including the best-selling annual price guide “Kovels’ Antiques and Collectibles Price List.” Hailed by Parade magazine as "the duke and duchess of the antiques world," the Kovels publish a monthly award-winning newsletter, Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles, and write a syndicated weekly newspaper column distributed to more than 150 newspapers. They appeared weekly on the HGTV program “Flea Market Finds with the Kovels.: Their popular website with free price information is www.kovels.com. The Kovels' newest book is "Kovels' American Collectibles, 1900 to 2000,” published by Random House and available July 17, 2007 wherever books are sold and online at http://www.kovels.com/KAC. H. Makela, hmakela@kovels.com, Kovels.com, Cleveland, Ohio