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Hi Mike
A bit off-topic, but your “Asian Bowl Carved Relief Embossed Surface” has a Emperor Qianlong seal mark on the base (though the characters are a bit mixed up). The carving looks very good. Usually Chinese lacquer is cinnabar-red; I don’t know what the yellow colour signifies. Could be Imperial yellow.
Terry
Great for mailing stuffed animals? If that’s their side hustle, they’re pretty good at it. Those cats look really lifelike.
Executive Summary and Acquisition Rationale
Dornoch Capital Advisors, LLC is pleased to present this opportunity for you to purchase the Tranmere Rovers Football Club including its 16,587 all-seater grounds/stadiam (Prenton Park). Our firm, through its exclusive financial advisory relationship with the club and its involvement with management, believe that the acquisition of the club presents a unique opportunity for a wealthy sports enthusiast at this time due to the following:
Historic brand and fan base in FA football dating back over 100 years;
Strong capitalization of the club with zero indebtedness in a period when English Football is in the process of de-gearing/de-leveraging;
Low cost of entry for club with significant potential for promotion to the second division or potentially the Premiership;
Demographics and location in Merseyside with Liverpool being the European Center of Culture in 2008 and the Open Championship being played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in 2007 make this 1.3 million population region quite attractive to sports owners;
The ability of the acquirer to institute industry best practice (U.S. style sports management and merchandising) to upgrade the fan experience in food/beverage, on-pitch performance, and match day entertainment thus driving additional revenues, earnings, promotions and cup titles;
The potential to pay for a portion of the acquisition through subsequent divestitures of excess/ non-income producing real estate with NO financial risk to the common shareholders;
Ability to generate pro-forma double digit returns on for the new investors;
Purchasing a Championship League caliber club at less than League One metrics;
FA Football represents the only worldwide sports brand which continues to grow at double-digit sponsorship and television media revenue growth; and
A current owner who will continue to capitalize the club through his preferred equity ownership interest and if desired by the new owners, an emeritus chairmanship/directorship.
TRFC finished only one point away from a playoff spot for promotion to the Coca Cola Championships league during their 2008/2009 campaignListed for a starting bid of $10,000,000 on eBay in 2009.
Item location: Pinehurst, NC, United States
Ships to: United States
Payments: PayPal, Pay on pickup“[Owner Peter] Johnson had hired Dornoch Capital, a specialist in selling sports franchises, to sell his shareholding. The listing was removed immediately following a public outcry.” (from Wikipedia) Apparently the club’s still for sale- make an offer, it’s been on the market since 2002.
There’s a series on BBC Radio 4 by Aleks Krotoski- “The Digital Human”. One episode mentioned how an Oxfam thrift shop had increased sales by about 30% by encouraging donors to write little stories about the items they were donating.
“I bought this Luis Vuitton handbag on a rainy Sunday afternoon in November in South Wigston. I took it to the disco that night where it looked resplendent on top of the pile of handbags we were dancing round.”
I’ve never tried this, ‘cos “I found this in a thrift shop, and paid a quid for it” doesn’t have quite the same appeal.
There’s a junk market near me where the stuff for sale comes from house clearances. I picked up a fancy wooden box once that was next to a pile of adult magazines. Then I read the nameplate on the box, and realised there was someone in it. I put ‘im back. Presumably he’d been in a cupboard on top of the mags.
I let him name his own price, which turned out to be £100 plus petrol for the delivery plus an overnight stay in the New Forest (in a house, not in a tree!) One of these items where there’s a kind of moral obligation to only sell it to one customer!
I sold a box of negatives yesterday to a gentleman whose father took the photographs. To confirm that it was his father, I emailed a scan of a schoolboy standing outside his classroom. The photograph was taken over one hundred years ago, in about 1910!
They’re mostly glass plates dating from the 1900s up to the 1920s. If the photographer hadn’t written his name on one of the boxes, and gone on to become an author, writing about his experiences in WW1 (and hence got his own Wikipedia article) I would never have identified him.
I just checked the eBay response- the email has the same eco.de address in the headers, but has eBay.co.uk rather than eBay Europe in the text at the bottom of the message. Also says “we sent you an email” so they’re admitting it came from them.
Just watched the video to see what the US version looked like. Don’t rub your nose on camera, it looks uncouth 🙂 It’s identical. I don’t think this is a glitch.
I got one as well, so it’s not just a US thing. Didn’t show up in messages; the subject line is in block capitals and the English seems a bit off, as if it was written by someone with English as a second language (the first being some European language). Header on the email included an eco.de address (German).
The three links appear identical- I clicked on the first and it took me through to ebay.co.uk. The repeating of the links seems odd if it is an officially commissioned email.
Down the bottom there’s this:
This administrative email was sent by eBay Europe S.à r.l., which may make use of its affiliates to provide eBay services. If you are a non-EU resident, please find the contact data of your contracting party in the User Agreement.
So… off-English, amateur use of block capitals in subject line, identical links repeated, accurate use of name and bill amount, sent to both US and UK users.
David playing the harp for Saul. The second one looks like an action painting, but it appears to have certain elements which are more considered- reminds me a bit of Anselm Kiefer or some other European artist crossed with Jackson Pollock. Might be worth getting it checked out as it seems to be by a “professional” artist- whoever painted that didn’t stop at one, and someone might recognise the style.
Artists. Either they don’t sign their work, or they sign it indecipherably, or they sign it in block capitals kindergarten style. I just had to pass on a good oil of a ruined church because it was painted by Squiggle Squiggle.
They all look to be modern Chinese, with the exception of the one with legs, which is probably modern Italian. Older Chinese porcelain, mostly from Jingdezhen, through the Ming, Qing and early Republic, tends to have 6 or 4 character reign marks on the base, or a double circle with perhaps stylised leaves. Communist period porcelain often has “China” with a number denoting the factory. Vases 6 and 7 (counting down from the top) look Cantonese.
I see a lady walking round here occasionally with a six-character reign mark tattooed on her arm.
The manufacturer’s probably M H Rhodes, whose main speciality seems to have been parking meters.
I share a cabinet in an antique shop with a friend. Doesn’t make much money, but it does have the advantage that pottery can be displayed without having to describe its faults (just an “AF” or “as found” on the label plus warning the shop owner about any issues) and there’s no packing and posting involved. There’s no selling fees either, just a flat rent of 55 GBP per month.
On the other hand, as Inglewood mentioned, we get given other people’s junk to sell! Like a chipped Torquay Mottoware jug at £20 when the true market value is 20 pence. I’d donate that creamer- it’s too bland.
Psychedelic art from the 1970s? Reminds me of the Pot Head Pixies from Planet Gong. I just sold a run of “Raw Art” magazine which specialises in outsider art. These drawings look “sensible” compared to the stuff in the magazines.
Now I’m wondering whether a “d-list comedian” is actually a comedian, or just a monologist.
Reasonably sure it’s a linocut- no visible grain, and the artist doesn’t seem to have had a problem cutting in different directions (such as the lettering). The “streaks” left in the white spaces are also characteristic, as is perhaps the size.
Might be a “Desert Father”. Looks like it’s in the Orthodox tradition (but most Orthodox use Cyrillic or Greek or a variant alphabet). If the name’s got ‘j’ at the end might be Czech, Slovakian, or Slovenian.
Terrj
