What Sells On eBay: Tweeter horn, SAE Preamplifier, Hat lot, Wire recorder

Nothing super interesting last week, and most are commission sales for my neighbor, such as:

My neighbor is involved in his local political party (not mine and I won’t mention anything), so he saved these from an event:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185427526940

I think I’ve mentioned that his wife (who passed away in January) was quite a shopper, but not necessarily for things she wanted to use:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185453670073

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185409672148

This one might have been his, but he ended up not using it:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185495430695

I miss you guys and I miss posting sales here. This year continues to be abysmal on eBay for  me (averaging about 2 sales a week since Jan 1!) but I’ve been very busy with life otherwise. Here are a few interesting things from late last year:

Here’s a nice postcard sale – a real photo of the Skagway, Alaska Public School circa 1940 by Dedman’s Studio 🙂 that sold for $35 plus first-class package shipping. From a large antique store lot of postcards for which I paid $1 each. More than I like to pay for a lot, but I cherry-picked them so I knew they were all good.

https://i.imgur.com/2Oy6kaR.jpg?2

This old Jenn-Air stove top electric griddle was left over from a renovation. Despite its well-used condition it sold for $44 plus shipping.

https://i.imgur.com/Y5ja3I5.jpg?2

Here’s another 1990’s reissue 1/25 scale model car kit from a flea market lot of models for which I paid $4 each. This one is Richie Evans’ #61 ’30’s Chevy bodied Modified stock car and sold for $59 plus shipping. All the models from that lot are sadly gone now – a great example of Jay’s go-all-in strategy that paid off well for me.

https://i.imgur.com/6Oa92cx.jpg?2

The generic term for this US Army Graphic Training Aid Soviet Weapons Whiz Wheel as a piece of ephemera is volvelle. It sold for $14 plus shipping and was something issued to me in the Army around 1980.

https://i.imgur.com/iBxOCva.jpg?2

I’m not much for the country look for household items but a surreptitious peek at the eBay comps told me that this framed farm scene tile from Potpourri Press would sell when I saw it in a thrift store for $5. It went for $25 plus shipping, but I notice the market has softened on this stuff since last year. Actually, the market has softened on everything, hasn’t it?

https://i.imgur.com/2cARHVt.jpg?1

Actually, the market has softened on everything, hasn’t it?

According to Peter Combs, who does a weekly YT video on the Asian-art market, including eBay, achieved prices are extremely variable, even allowing for the annual July-August holiday slump.

He reckons it’s a good time for collectors to be shopping for bargains.

In the UK, we’ve got food price inflation running at about 10%, hiccups in the food supply chain, gasoline at 10 dollars a gallon, and annual domestic fuel costs expected to rise to an average of 4,000 dollars a household.