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I think at the root of that ‘aesthetic’ is an English person having a laugh. ‘Cottage’ is a slang word for a public lavatory. When George Michael died, his large house was described in the news as a ‘cottage’.
02/19/2021 at 5:01 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 501: Shout Out To Everyone Who Shows Up and Works #86031One sale: two tape players and headphones on auction, £130 to a French collector (cog £2.50). Got offers of £20, £30 and £50 at the start, which I ignored ‘cos I was luxuriating in a pond. Bidding intensified in the last hour (7 to 8 pm).
Scavenge of the week: 1970s “Any where So cool” (sic) portable fridge by Quest Leisure Products, who are surprisingly still in business. British built, British Leyland quality. Came from a dealer in vintage VW campers who gave it to a friend who asked me to take it to the dump. Stripped it down and cleaned it; forgot which way round the Peltier chip went and burnt my fingers testing it to find out.
I did have a problem when I posted two items to the same buyer. The postmaster refused the second parcel on the grounds that the two parcels had the same QR code. I went back home and compared the images of the two codes at 200% magnification- they were four or five pixels different at the lower left corner. Took the second parcel to another post office- no problem.
Same address, same parcel size, same postage rate. Those few pixels must have been something like the purchase time, which was a few minutes different.
The labels I get have QR codes, which are about 2 inches square with really small pixels, so I don’t tape over them just in case. I do tape over the address part though- HP printer with water-based ink which will run. I import the label into a graphics programme and convert to greyscale before printing.
Sent some parcels with bar codes recently where some of the bars seemed to be grey (Yodel carriers) and I just couldn’t get the codes printed out clearly enough for the shop’s scanner to work.
I guess she was a guest teacher there before we died.
Hang on, there’s something wrong here… 🙂
At a guess I wouldn’t think it covered anything.
I think Timo’s suggestion has got legs- there’s a wider gap between “Tri***” and the ‘L’ or ‘C’.
On abebooks there’s the ability to order the listings from expensive (without shipping) to cheap; that’s useful to avoid the many print-on-demand copies of older books.
There’s a blog called Ten Pound Island; the owner, Greg, specialises in books on shipping, especially whaling. He provides valuable insights into how the rare book trade has changed over the years. I expect you can guess how the market for whaling books has developed.
Might be worth trying to decipher the name as a Dutch or German name. It doesn’t look like a typical English name to me.
Excellent! The Pewter Society must be working from home- there’s been a national lockdown since January. Inquiry is when the police make inquiries, for example “I’ve been helping the police with their inquiries by hitting myself with a truncheon”.
I’ve never heard of London County, so I did a search and found it’s the County of London, which was run by London County Council (LCC) which I have heard of. I think what it is, is that the VR67 mark was used in that part of London which was in Surrey, i.e.south of the river, which became part of the County of London in 1889.
If you’re listing it, probably best to go with ‘Surrey’ and ‘London’; definitely not ‘Surrey County’, which sounds like it needs a sheriff 🙂
One thing that might be muddying the waters is that there’s “courier fraud”, which hasn’t got any connection with eBay, but is a type of financial fraud where the victim is persuaded to hand over their bank card and pin number to a courier. So the word ‘courier’ gets attached to ‘fraud’ and ‘scam’ in people’s thinking.
A friend’s mother nearly got scammed by a variant on this; the scammers hired a taxi to take her to the bank to make a large withdrawal. The bank teller got suspicious, and they contacted her son.
Couldn’t get anywhere with the name- it seems to have 11 letters, starts with a D and ends with an ‘er’, and maybe has an ‘h’ in the middle.
Yes, I’m sure they would be happy to help, it’s a lot more interesting than the usual beer mugs! Is the name on the side “Drysdale” or something else?
Hi Jay, there’s a website that collates prices across a number of sites- the manager of the thrift bookshop I was a volunteer at encouraged us to use it. I can’t offhand remember the name- I found it a bit clunky, and the manager kept me on book sorting as I was able to identify what was worth valuing, i.e. I was the only person there who actually read books 🙂
He priced high, with the basic fiction paperback at 2 dollars (£1.50), and the rest slightly under whatever the median price on Amazon was. Most charity shops here will sell paperback fiction at 50 pence or three for a pound.
After 6 months as a bookshop (the shop had sold clothes and wedding dresses as well for about 25 years before the change) the shop closed due to the pandemic and didn’t re-open, as higher management decided it wasn’t selling enough.
Blimey! You’ve got markings for King George IV (ex Prince of Wales who had the Brighton Pavilion built) and Queen Victoria. Maybe the Sailor King should be on there as well. I think I can see Blackfriars and maybe Goodge Street.
A wild guess is that it’s a measure for some kind of dry goods, hence the brass rim to protect against wear.
Having sorted through a few tons of books, I can tell you there’s money in books. Literally. Also ephemera of various sorts, bookplates and inscriptions by authors, marbled endpapers and book dealer’s and bookbinder’s labels. Also words, but oftentimes the words ain’t worth so much. 🙂
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