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Contact a slide rule collector’s club, such as the Oughtred Society. Ivory was used for slide rules and sectors up to (I think) the middle of the C19, so they’re well before the 1946 cut-off for ivory.
Most specialist rules were made from boxwood and they’re two or three feet long, so it’s probably a standard slide rule which used to fetch between 100 and 120 USD (£60 to £80) at auction.
It’s not worth trying to sell it on eBay. Search “seller ivory jailed” …..
Not the worst thing to get lumbered with. I came across a box of junk at a local auction three or four years back with a girl’s skull in it (no brow ridge). Someone bought the box for £40 (not me!) A lot of these skulls and skeletons were brought from Africa in the 19th century to sell to medical students.
Can’t help you with the Worthpoint- only sold price I came across was 7 dollars- but if your camera’s the same as the one in the eBay ad, the lenses are Fujinon (D.O. Industries were distributors). Unusually the lenses look like they’re identical, i.e. there’s no specific viewing lens, so that’s a pair of lenses that could be used in a homebuilt stereo camera. If the focal length is 150mm the camera probably uses 70mm film. A 50 foot roll of that will cost you about 280 dollars.
Probably the 80/20 rule applies here. I remember going into a Borders bookshop and looking at the huge range of magazines available; a lot were (still are) “ephemeral”. Read once and chuck.
I had success selling Engineering In Miniature magazines dating from the 1980s to the 2010s. As Amatino mentioned, scanning the contents page is good. On the other hand I bought a large pile of Model Engineer magazines from the 1930s through to the 1990s; the post-war ones are now presumably someone’s hoard of toilet rolls (I put them in the recycling!) The older ones went to a thrift shop. The difference I think is that the Engineering mags had “how to” articles; the Engineer mags didn’t, and were virtually unsaleable.
I had a pile of After The Battle magazines. They sold quickly; unfortunately I accidentally listed one twice, and had to order a back issue from the publishers to be sent out to the buyer.
I don’t know why, but when I read “strong language” I went searching for a legendary newspaper headline, that was always assumed to be mythical. Well, they were looking in the wrong place. It’s not in the “Manchester Guardian”, it was in the New York Times!
The full horror! Note the storage fees if they can’t work out how much to charge you.
Good price for that slide rule! It’s worth sliding the inner bit out of the rule to photograoh the interior, as there’s often markings of interest (or maybe the owner’s scratched their name there!)
A friend who collects slide rules (and their big brethren, the Fullers and the ilk) gave me a pair of Sennheiser headphones to take to the recycling dump. The foam in the shells had rotted. Sold them on eBay for £80 instead, to his surprise.
On the other hand I’ve got a big pile of colour magazines from the 1960s, printed in Hindi for the Indian market by the Soviet Union. Every time I go to throw them away I get a pang of conscience- start thinking they’ve got some historical value. That’s Nicholson Baker’s fault!
The thrift shop I volunteer at has a copy of “The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion’ by Miss Hyachinthe Phypps, with illustrations by Gorey. On the top shelf, in the back room 🙂
I think I’ve worked out part of the solution to the kitchen mystery; the clue’s the position of the fridge door.
As the Nutshells are still active training tools, the solutions to each remain secret.
That’s really interesting! I’ve been looking at the one where the lady was taking an ice cube tray out of the refrigerator- I’m stumped!
06/19/2020 at 11:08 am in reply to: Baltimore man guilty on federal charges; sold stolen FedEx goods on eBay #78583In ye olde British slang, “bent gear” is stolen property that’s been offered for sale. Should’ve opened a shop and called it “Bender’s Bent Gear”.
I suppose they would be surprised- it’s like you’re paying someone to take money off you. It seems (just checked) that UK VAT gets charged on goods over 15 GBP at 20%. So 20 GBP of goods has an additional 4 GBP VAT plus VAT on the postage, packing and insurance plus the 8 GBP for the privilege of paying the VAT at the sarting office.
How the <> do they work out the VAT on the packing?
There was at one time a VAT exemption for goods imported from the Channel Islands for a value not exceeding 18 GBP. A lot of photographic film and compact discs got imported via there. Seems they’ve put a stop to that.
Just a guess- could be the same process that turns old computers “nicotine brown”. It’s something to do with a compound of bromine that was added to the plastic. Pink plus brown makes an orangey colour? Also the plastic boxes might be outgassing, like the vapour from the black plastic in cars leaves a film over the inside of the windscreen.
“I’m not paying more for the postal service to release my item they will return to sender and I would like a refund”
It’s the £8 (10 dollars) the postal service charges on top of the duties and VAT that the buyer’s probably objecting to. This is a fee levied if the customs duty isn’t paid upfront before the parcel arrives at the destination sorting office.
At least with garage sales you can get an insight into the state of mind of the customer. Online you’re kind of engaging in a Turing test- you don’t know whether the interlocutor on the other side of the conversation is a person who’s impaired chemically in some way, a Wikipedia editor* or a dog with opposable thumbs.
Maybe write back “My minimum is the same as your maximum, plus a certain margin”.
*A stoned person is going to be unstoned at some time of the day, a Wikipedia editor is semper eadem.
“Accoutrements Rosie the Riveter Action Figure”. “Customers who bought this item also bought Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”
“Customers who viewed this item also viewed Slicey the Pig Dashboard Wiggler”. That’s a pig cutting itself in half with a sword.
I just now used a site called “roundupreviews” to search for the category single pieces of American Tempo. I found Mickdog’s five listings easy to spot, because of the grain of the wood! Only one out of 18 listings had a white background. Most were on wood (table?) backgrounds, some on grey, one on grey carpet, one on lace and one on what looks like sand.
An eBay seller I know personally has taken to including his foot in the photos. He seems to be doing okay with auctions; the buyers haven’t complained about not receiving a foot with their purchase.
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