The House of Capet, (French: Les Capétiens, la Maison capétienne), also called The House of France ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328 As rulers of France, the dynasty succeeded the Carolingian dynasty. The name derives from the nickname of Hugh, the first Capetian King, who was known as Hugh Capet and was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians. The direct House of Capet came to an end in 1328, when the three sons of Philip IV all failed to produce surviving male heirs to the French throne. With the death of Charles IV, the throne passed to the House of Valois, the direct descendants of Charles of Valois, a younger son of Philip III. It would later pass again, to the House of Bourbon and the House of Orléans (both descended from Louis IX), while always remaining in the hands of agnatic descendants of Hugh Capet.
Thats the history lesson out of the way! Now take a look at these stunning images representing the iconography of the Capetians then read on for some VERY interesting info about where I got these images from:
These images are part of a larger set of 197 which I compiled onto CD for an eBay product. Check it out HERE. The great thing for me and the interesting point here is that I got these very high quality images for free from a little known website. There are a number of these type of sites online where you can download images like this and loads of others for free but I have never seen them talked about in any public domain guide out there (and I’ve probably read them all!). If you are following the $50 A Day Auction Challenge (available HERE) and would like me to add a video to the members area showing you were to find these sites and amazing free downloads, leave a comment here and I may put one up if enough people
request it).
(If you click on any of the thumbnails you will see larger images. These images are reduced in size from the originals as they were so large [massive 300 - 400 pixels an inch] I couldnt upload them here).
Will this new eBay product sell well? I have no idea, but think about this. It cost me NOTHING to create it and took me an about an hour to put the eBay listing together. Now I can forget about it and just wait for the sales to come in.
My profit on this CD will be about £6 (approx $9.30). Lets say I only sell 2 copies of it per month:
£6 x 2 = £12. Over a year 12 x £12 = £144 (approx $225).
The interesting part is, using my “secret sites” I could, if I put the work in probably come up with 10 of these new eBay products in just the space of a weekend.
Assuming the same low number of sales, thats £144 x 10 = £1440 (approx $2240) added to my income in return for 1 weekends work! Think about it – if your boss said to you “work this weekend and you can have a raise on your salary of $2240, forever” would you do it? And remember that is based on the very low assumption of selling just 2 copies of each item per month. You could easily exceed this and you’d probably hit lucky with a couple that would do between 5 and 10 a month.
THAT is the power of the public domain folks and if you want to learn everything I know about it, click HERE.
