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My card consignment business is booming more than it ever has. I have my buying and selling down to something like a science, and every week I’m shaving off a few bucks from my expenses in the expectation of making a few extra bucks of profit. I’ve been focused on cards that will complete one of my 10 card curated team lots, or extreme bargains to send to my consignment port. It’s been going really well.
However (and I didn’t plan it this way), I bought absolutely nothing outside of cards this week. How’s that for kicking off 2025 in a new way? So my scavenge of the week will have to be something from my death piles. I did some digging last night with plans to do some photography and scanning later tonight and tomorrow. So once I have those items photographs and the listings created, I’ll come back to this thread and show off. Hopefully they’ll be in a sale of the week thread soon! Until then, I’ll have to scavenge vicariously through you.
What did you find this week?
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One hundred boxes of NOS overlocker sewing needles, a foot pedal controller for a sewing machine, a pair of C19 sugar nips. two rosewood spirit levels, a patent boot stretcher by the Magic Polish Company, a modern Ukrainian bible with a loose WW2 photo of troops inside, a 1930s cigarette-card album of airliners, three metal plates for drawing wire into round, square and semicircular sections, a hand-carved wooden tray and a WW2 German ammunition crate. The lot, £38.
There’s a story behind the Ukrainian bible, but unfortunately it’s handwritten in Cyrillic. The photo shows a smiling group of European soldiers draped over the bonnet of a lorry, accompanied by a somewhat disgruntled-looking British soldier. Their caps look like German field caps.
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Not much scavenging for me this week. Planning to go to the bins (35 min away) with my daughter today for some fun. I started working on consolidating and organizing my inventory yesterday. It was very cathartic. Found a small handful of new items not listed (for various reasons I put off listing or misplaced) and posted those yesterday. Lots more work to do on inventory management but some fun today. I passed on an estate sale and the reopening of one of my favorite thrifts. Lots of stuff here.
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I don’t think I bought anything during these dates? my wife and I hit a couple estate sales, bought a book for one of my kids and bought a small container of camera “hoods” and parts for $3. Bought this for a couple friends that are amateur photographers….so I guess I didn’t buy anything to sell.
now I need to get myself in gear and get some things listed
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I did some digging last night with plans to do some photography and scanning later tonight and tomorrow. So once I have those items photographs and the listings created, I’ll come back to this thread and show off.
Well, I actually followed through on my plan this week, so it’s time to show off a few of the listings I made. I had a pile of old sports programs and other paper items that I bought way too long ago and just…let sit in a bin on a shelf. Don’t do this! Bad habit. Poor use of space, especially for someone like myself who’s still in an apartment. Not a good use of scavenging funds. I don’t feel good it. But I can’t do anything about the stuff I bought four months ago or a year ago or, um, September of 2023 except list it, or lot it up, or donate it, or trash it. And this week, I did that!
The bread and butter type of stuff was 1960s era stuff in the $20 to $30 range, like this Kansas City Chiefs vs. Boston Patriots 1965 AFL program. There is a little history of these selling in Terapeak and the football playoffs are just about to start, so…maybe this will sell soon? I’m going to be more confident. It’s a good thing I listed this because I know it’s going to sell in the next 60 days.
I had as many college items as I did professional, with this 1948 Kentucky football program being one of my favorites since it features two early legends of the game, the great coach Bear Bryant and the Hall of Famer George Blanda, who was both the quarterback and kicker because that’s what football was like in 1944. It was a different game back then! I saw a sale in the $50 range for this program in Terapeak, but there is an active listing at $30 with best offer on and the listing is not promoted. So I priced mine at $30 with best offer and promoted listings on and now the two listings will battle each other for supremacy.
The big scavenge of the week was this 1944 NCAA regional basketball finals program which cost me $10 (!?) back in September 2023 and then sat in a bin ever since. I am not sure why I paid this much for this item, but in researching it, I realized I may have stumbled on gold. This program happens to feature Wat Misaka, the first Asian NBA player, and it’s a year in which his team the Utah Redskins (yikes — today their nickname is the Utes) won the NCAA championship. I put a wild price on it since a few of his old authenticated photos have sold in the $300+ range. I assume this will sell at some random point for $100 or so, which will definitely get me fired up to buy more old sports ephemera.
Actually, this whole process of finally photographing, researching and listing this stuff made me really appreciate these types of items. I loved seeing the old advertisements and everything looks like it’s from another time because, well, it is. I don’t have the space or knowledge to acquire huge numbers of old programs and paper items, but now it’s definitely a goal for down the line. Assuming any of this stuff sells, of course.
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