Monday 23 July 2007

The Online Curiosity Shop

We like to think we sell some interesting stuff at RunForYourLives.co.uk. Bar stools, t-shirts, minature trebuchets, anything without which we think your life would be an emptier existence. We're always scouring the web's better shops in our quest to gather a load of ace stuff to buy.

However, earlier today as we were on our regular trawl for great things to stock, we came across possibly the most fantastic thing we've ever seen for sale.


We've just teamed up with Famous Retail, a site which offers all sorts of authentic signed photos, prints and collectors' items (we would say 'Our friends at Famous Retail', but we're not that close yet), and we've just added some of their great things (and weirder items) to RunForYourLives.co.uk. Anyhow, to cut a long blog post short, in amongst the fascinating items we found, we stumbled across this;



A genuine letter from Charles Dickens.

We love this; A note written by the hand which penned Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and The Muppets' Christmas Carol. It's guaranteed authentic and comes beautifully framed with a picture of the man himself. How else could you become the owner of an item created by one of our greatest Britons? It's a piece of history and possibly the most brilliant thing we've seen for sale online. And it can be yours.

(Don't worry, there's still plenty of cat's-arse-pencil-sharpeners in stock too)

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