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Just checked a sale (I’ve just been shoehorned onto MP). The item was posted using eBay/PayPal but since the PayPal balance was zero the postage cost is taken by direct debit from my bank a/c. Buyer paid on the 29th January; PayPal took the postage out of my a/c on the 2nd Feb, closely followed by Adyen NV putting the funds minus eBay’s fees into the a/c. I wonder when Royal Mail got their wonga?
This three-day hiatus is so 1990s. With my bank, it seems that if I get a cheque I can scan the cheque and “pay’ it in using the jpeg, and the funds will be available the next working day (I’ve had two cheques in the last year, so I haven’t tried it yet)
Cameos make a regular cameo appearance at a local auction house, so a few years back I borrowed a book on cameos from the library. Unfortunately I can’t remember the books’ author- just done a search and I don’t think it’s one of the top hits. Anyway my takeaway from the book was that most modern Italian shell cameos are made using an ultrasonic machine working from a master pattern. They have minute pits over the sculpted part. Secondly the noses on modern ones tend to have indented bridges, i.e. they look cute, whereas antique ones are like Medusa’s above.
I found a cameo with a broken pin last year in a box of Royal Doulton statuettes. It had a 9 carat gold frame; pushed the cameo out of the frame and sold the frame to a jeweller for £55. The cameo went in his junk box. I gave the statuettes away.
I got to see this cameo four years ago; made to commemorate the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
Antique Frog sees this and comments “Yep- Robinson Clay Products” 🙂 Looks similar to German stoneware.
I had this motto a long time back- if I wanted to work for an idiot I’d work for myself. Well, here I am 🙂 Damn fool management’s got me taking tea breaks every twenty minutes.
You could tie it in with the TV series ‘Walking Dead’, or give it a ‘Heart Of Darkness’ slant. Should sell pretty easily anyway/
Well you’ve got the severed heads of a bird, an 18th century sailor, something with its tongue lolling, a bat and an African. Last time I saw something like that, I was 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge.
The base, with its thick glaze on earthenware and the impressed numbers, looks German (like the ‘fat lava’ stuff) but the rest not so much.
Looks like Jerry to me as well- searched for Jerry and Chicago, 1950s, and got Jerry Pinsler who was an abstract artist. Most likely not him, but there appears to be some interest in him and the subject of Chicago art scene in the 1950s so someone may know.
Just to cheer you up… Wagner ordered a large dragon for the first production of the Ring cycle. The body and head went to the opera house in Bayreuth, the neck went to Beirut. The show went on. Commented a viewer “It looked like Siegfried was bullying the poor thing!”.
Regarding nobody’s favourite topic- I’ve been told the British strain has been confirmed as being 30% more deadly, and more infectious. At one point this year we were running at around 1,800 deaths per day, which is about 3 or 4 times higher by population than the US rate.
It’s a “modern wood sphere”
You can “nest your air plants” in it. Buyer gave feedback “I LOVE this piece!! Thanks so much for a wonderful transaction!”.
Out of curiosity, what’s bad feedback on Etsy like? Is it as psychotic as the good feedback is over-emotional w—ery?
I was talking to another seller yesterday, and they’d bought a £2.49 iPhone case with free postage from an eBay seller who (according to my friend) had 80 negatives on a feedback total of 300. The case was crap. The seller’s name (not their eBay moniker) was S. Shark. My friend didn’t bother leaving a negative because they didn’t think it would make any difference.
Some of your neurons have died as a result of reading that, haven’t they? 🙂 I’m sorry…
I reckon a 40 US fluid ounce serving would make 4 mugs of coffee. The mug I’ve just drunk out of is 0.25 litre.
Seems to be the rule in the UK that in cafes if the liquid is poured out by the staff you get it in a mug, but if you have a pot of tea or coffee at the table you get cups. There was a trend a few years back for vintage cafes, serving tea in a random selection of florally-decorated old tea cups, but that seems to have died off. As have cat cafes 🙂
At my school there was trading in used ammunition- musket and cannon balls and WW2 cartridge cases. These came from a range facing out into a river estuary; they were recovered by canoeists. The cannon balls came out encrusted in some kind of concretion, which was split open to reveal the ball. I had one- it had a brass fuse. Wasn’t till recently that I realised the darn thing was full of gunpowder. I left it behind when my parents moved.
There’s videos on YT on how to safely defuse American Civil War shells. It involves a lot of water and a very slow drill, not an angle-grinder as apparently some deceased enthusiasts have used.
@dylan Yes, back in Henry VIII’s time they had the problem of the church being immortal and thus accumulating huge wealth and ownership of one-third of the land. Now we’ve got BlackRock and similar ‘multinational investment management corporations’ who are no doubt the premier utilisers of AI in the employment of capital.
I think the main strength of AI is in its modelling of multi-variable processes. There is a school of sociology, processual or figurational sociology, which emphasises the importance of social process, as against other schools like structurational or figurational. They’re mostly based in the Netherlands- they might have some interesting stuff to say on the subject.
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