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01/13/2021 at 9:59 am in reply to: Buyer reqts return claiming item not authentic but is also auctioning the item #85143
All bark and no bite 🙂 Years back, on disposing of a relative’s estate, I learnt a couple of things. Some curtains don’t burn, because they’re made out of fibreglass. Don’t set fire to upholstered furniture; it gives off a poisonous yellow smoke and is almost impossible to put out.
According to the Wiki article on the Mk 2 the US military up to Vietnam era transported and stored the grenades without the fuse being fitted. If there were more than one grenade for sale at the mall, maybe they were fuseless and the 12 year old managed to detonate the grenade by other means.
Well that makes a change! All I find in skips these days is builder’s rubble. 🙂
It’s interesting to see where AI is going. There’s a site called “AI Weirdness” which uses huge databases to produce new song lyrics, biographies of game characters etc.
@amatino I could give that a try! The local charity shop has stacks of them for £1 or £1.50- it’s not open yet as we’re at the beginning of a national lockdown which is expected to last maybe until March.
A friend does jigsaws, but she turned down my offer. She had enough problems with the one she was doing, which was half covered in a milky-white sky. I can see that turning the puzzle over makes it into an abstract shape recognition task; also you don’t then have to look at the picture, which is usually pretty lame!
@amatino  …and a free pair of scissors with every puzzle.
I was thinking that sections of plastic drainpipe might be a solution, but then I realised that it may be difficult to get the poster out of the tube (static electricity and burrs on the end of the tube). There’s firms that deal exclusively in high-value posters- maybe they’ll have tips on posting.
Carpet shops throw away cardboard tubes, but they’re too big and stout. Maybe they could be cut up and sold as cardboard homes for cats. 🙂
Looks like Cyrillic script, but I can’t make out the characters. Nice painting of a damp marsh though!
A fellow Scavenger recommended triangular boxes as they don’t roll about in the mail depot. As far as I remember they used a tube inside a triangular box. Using a tube is, I think, preferable as it supports the poster properly- maybe a tube with three pieces of cardboard glued to it would work.
Haven’t posted any large rolled artwork, but when I post smaller flat artwork I sandwich the work in acid-free tissue paper and then tape the paper inside an old jigsaw box. I’ve tried giving the jigsaws away, but for some reason no-one wants a jigsaw without the picture.
Just had a look at the Analogue camera selection on Catawiki (638 listings). The bidding seems reasonably healthy. For example, a German-made Rollei SL35 with a Zeiss 2.8/35 Distagon has been bid up to 94 euros with 8 hours to go. At a guess, the lens would fetch about 90 to 100 euro equivalent on eBay UK- the finish is worn.
The market for religious books in Europe is probably not too hot. I bought an 1830 edition of Wesley’s hymns in a fine gold-tooled leather binding with gilded page edges for 6 pounds from a dealer a couple of weeks back, because it was set in Baskerville. Bad purchase. Probably fetch about 15 quid on eBay, because it’s now an object and not a usable book.
Yes (apart from thanks very much for the write-up!). So, according to Catawiki, the item has to be worth at least a 100 euros, but they let your book get sold for 20 euros. Out of their share of the 20, they pay a “curator” and finance things like a big expensive two-page ad.
Here’s their job advert for an Islamic coins expert.
Working from home, but perks include “Sponsored events and afternoon drinks”!
Mister Miusco could do with a copywriter. What happened to his first daughter?
I suspect Miusco acts as an agency for Chinese manufacturers (the president’s called Guanxin Fu).
Way back in 2019 I bought some chocolate moulds for a friend. The first purchase was from a British firm at £20, the rest were from a drop shipper at £4. Identical product, available on AliBaba at £1.50.
Chrysanthemums and an umbellifer with (sedge?) grass. Don’t know what the blue and brown flowers are.
Sudden flash of understanding. In general, in English society (don’t know about the rest of the Brits), asking what someone does for a living, what church they go to, or who they vote for is simply not done, old chap. Also personal names…
He and my father had entered into one of those close (the adjective is excessive) English friendships that begin by excluding confidences and very soon dispense with dialog.
(Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius“)
Totter. Rag and bone man. Mudlark. Recycling operative. Arbitraguer of serendipitious findings. Gebrauchtwarenhändler. Thrift store spelunker.
Sausage, bacon, eggs, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread, toast, butter, mug of tea = full English breakfast.
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