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What's The Value Of Your Old Polaroid Camera?

What's The Value Of Your Old Polaroid Camera?

Old Polaroid Camera related to old times, and despite nearly every person having a high-resolution camera at their fingertips thanks to the ...

How Do You Clean A Camera Lens? - A Guide

How Do You Clean A Camera Lens? - A Guide

A camera is a beautiful thing, a chance to capture a moment in time, to keep forever.

How To Clean Brass - A Guide

How To Clean Brass - A Guide

How to clean your old brassBrass is a very popular metal, found in many British homes.

Types of military medals to sell - a guide

Types of military medals to sell - a guide

If you’ve decided to sell a military medal there are probably many questions which will crop up, especially if you don’t have any experi...

War medal values - a guide

War medal values - a guide

You’ve decided to sell your medals and you want to know how much you’ll make.

How to clean silver - a guide

How to clean silver - a guide

Everybody loves silver, and there probably isn't a household in the country that doesn't contain some form of silver.

How to clean a fountain pen – A guide

How to clean a fountain pen – A guide

How to clean an old fountain pen. If you use and collect vintage fountain pens, you’ve probably tried to clean one at some stage, or at le...

Seven fountain pen mistakes to stop RIGHT NOW

Seven fountain pen mistakes to stop RIGHT NOW

It’ll come as no surprise that we’re big fans of fountain pens here at Vintage Cash Cow.

Camera lens fungus - A guide

Camera lens fungus - A guide

If you use and collect vintage camera lenses, you’ve probably heard of and fear lens fungus.

How do Vintage Cash Cow test gold?

How do Vintage Cash Cow test gold?

His name is Charman, Antony Charman, and he’s here to test your metal… literally, Antony is an expert, he loves to talk about what he d...

Antony spills the beans on his appraisal challenge

Antony spills the beans on his appraisal challenge

If you've only just joined us, you may have missed the one where one of our senior vintage experts Antony Charman went up against our metal ...

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