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@mycottage Yes, except I then had to go back to the shop to see if there were any more in their back room. I’ve no idea how they ended up there, as the shop is the end of the line for donated items. Well, the end of the retail line! After that, the dumpster.
Just now went into a thrift clearance shop whilst waiting for someone. Picked up a novel to read, went to the counter to pay and saw two old prints at £5 each. They’re two etchings from Turner’s Liber Studiorum book of 1808 (I found out after I got home)- retail price about £800 for a print.
Talking of livestreaming, I now get almost daily notifications on my phone from eBay about livestreamed baseball card events. I’d blame a certain somebody, but it’s my own fault 🙂
I joined a forum of stamp collectors, which is quite interesting. That’s “quite interesting” in the English sense. Every few days someone joins up because they’ve found a rare variation of a common US stamp from the 1920s or 1930s. Various experts then have to repeatedly explain that it’s not a rare variety at all, that the OP’s measuring the perforations or the size wrong. Arguments ensue.
A recent topic is tariffs, especially as to whether their imposition will scare off foreign dealers from next year’s Boston stamp exhibition. Those discussions then veer off into criticism of Agent 47, the tone police turn up to complain that they’re supposed to be
wantalking about stamps not politics, and then the moderators shut the topic down.Most of them know a lot about stamps. The other things, not so much.
Hi @christiner thanks for the detailed report, especially the tips from the search guy!
I bought 32 old German stamps at auction- left a bid of £45 thinking i’d get them for £25 as nobody would be interested, and I ended up “winning” at my top bid. They’re from the old German states, and according to the little pieces of paper put in with them have a value of somewhere round £2,000.
I checked up on this value, and it’s the Stanley Gibbons catalogue value, which is generally discounted to between 10 and 25% in the market, depending on condition. I guess whoever bid against me saw the red 6 kreuzer Thurn and Taxis stamp priced at £626 down at the bottom of the sheet!
I sold, on commission, a couple of Atari computers. Consignor assured me that they were tested, but the buyers complained that the keyboard membranes were defective, leading to sticky keys. Partial refunds in both cases. However, both buyers highly praised my packing, so now I’m wondering how other sellers are boxing up their electronic stuff. Old newspapers and bin liners?
@christiner I saw a dealer’s tables at an antiques fair, where their large stock of clear glass was displayed on white cloth. Virtually invisible!
There’s a guy on YouTube ( @lovedecanters7981) who does lots of shorts on, er… decanters. He seems to be local to me- I guess one day I’ll run into him. He has distinctive facial hair.
@christiner I’ve got a Royal Doulton cut-glass ship’s decanter and a Denby chef’s knife with a plastic handle. There’s probably dinner plates “made” by Sabatier out there!
Dewey, the “major gangbuster” according to Wikipedia, personally prosecuted Lucky Luciano in 1936, so that seems a good date for someone wanting his autograph but only having stamps in their billfold. The writing seems shaky, as if he was having to sign it while holding the stamps in his hand, maybe pressed against the billfold.
The stamps are MNH (mint not hinged).
@craig-rex According to a website called Swedish Tiger those 6 cent airmail stamps were first issued June 1934, when the rate for 1 ounce was dropped from 8 cents. Catalogue number is Scott C19
The four stamps are a plate block; the number 21234 is the number of the printing plate. There were six plates- 21234 is the first- and the print run was just over 30 million. It was replaced in 1938 by a different design.
So, at a guess, the block of stamps date from 1934, as they were printed using the first plate made, and Dewey signed them 1934 or 1935 about the time when Dutch Schultz was planning his murder.
Got to take a friend’s cat to the People’s Dispensary For Sick Animals today. It’s located in Barker’s Butts Lane.
I was given a jar of blackberries in gin at Christmas. Cost the giver £5. Now they’re down to £1 and I bought six jars…
I’ll probably still have five jars next Christmas. Sometimes there’s a reason it’s cheap.
Bought a 22-pound tub of Dijon mustard yesterday at The Company Shop, which is a kind of scavenging supermarket. Cost £1 (about $1.50). Mustard been crazy! Told the cashier I was going to have a mustard bath.
