I had one bigger sale of some JC Penney shear curtains. A couple of years ago, I purchased a closet full of linens for the minimum bid of $1. I’ve already made a few hundred. Totally overlooked online auction lot! The curtains sold for $69.
I’ve been real busy lately with matters keeping me from eBay as is typical for me each year from December into February. I really need to dive back in. Here are some sales from late last year:
This consignment challenge coin is from the 2-star Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Commander of the US Coast Guard’s 11th District, an area encompassing the four states of the Pacific West and Southwest. It sold for $33 plus shipping.
I think the expression on this sailor’s face sold this real photo studio postcard from the WWI era. It was part of a gun show lot that has been long paid for. It sold for $23 and although I only charged for the eBay Standard Card shipping label, it’s not available when the item sells for over $20. I could have used enough stamps but decided to use First Class Mail Package to get tracking since the buyer was new to eBay and the card label would have provided tracking (albeit sometimes unreliable).
I found this very interesting press kit from a 1979 24-hour Daytona auto race at the now-closed St Augustine Flea Market for $5. The original recipient of the kit started to take notes on it during the race but it looks like they did not stay for the whole thing. No doubt they weren’t up for napping on a cot in the press box to get through it all. The kit sold for $41 plus shipping on an outgoing best offer. It is amazing to me that there are still, to this day, 24-hour auto races.
I came across a decent lot of Canadian post cards a while back and in the course of researching them learned that there is interest in the industrial heartland. Here’s a real photo card of a pulp mill in in British Columbia that sold for $20 plus $2.75 shipping for a stamped stiff envelope to Canada.
This bayonet is for the Belgian FN Model 1949 rifle that was exported to the militaries of a number of countries in Africa and South American into the early 1960’s and stayed in use into the 1980’s. Its distinctive double edged blade is unusual for 20th century bayonet design but is similar to earlier Belgian bayonets of the 1920’s. An eBay snipe for $63 several years ago, it sold for $160 plus shipping.
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