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A friend (UK eBay seller) sold a book to a UK customer back in May. The book hadn’t arrived after 3 weeks, so the customer opened a case. Friend claims online for the book (£20 plus postage) and receives a cheque from Royal Mail for the amount, in the post, the next day with a very apologetic letter. Of course, the day after the book arrives at the customer’s address, so the cheque has been sent back to RM.
That 5-pointed star is reminiscent of a symbol of the Kwantung army (eBay item with star). Don’t think it was produced by them, though they did manufacture other stuff, but it might indicate a pre-WW2 date. The crown looks like the male British crown (the female one’s got a dip in the top)- they could have copied that off a KGVI stamp.
The organisation that runs the thrift shop where I volunteer is instituting a 72-hour layover for donated goods when they re-open. The fomites (deposits of viruses on surfaces) are reckoned to be inactive after a certain period- the duration appears to depend on the type of surface. I’m more concerned about the tight working space where I sort the books. The primary route of transmission seems te be close proximity to an infected person in an indoor setting.
Reckon picking stuff up off the street is safe so long as you don’t touch your face/head until you’ve washed your hands thoroughly. Also store the goods away from where other people can handle them until after, say, three or four days.
If you’re outdoors in a crowd, and for some reason everybody’s coughing like mad because there’s some noxious chemical in the air, does that mean your chances of being infected go up massively?
Rajasthani puppets- Kathputl puppetry (Wikipedia).
05/29/2020 at 5:19 am in reply to: Unique 12″ Cylinder Round Tube Lidded Silver Plate Serving Dish – Used For?? #77907Maybe look for scratches and patterns of wear inside, which might give an indication of what it was used for. It’s probably not for food which is acidic or contains eggs (the sulphur tarnishes the silver)
Possibly a Burmese Buddhist nat (i.e. spirit). Googling “Thai spirits” brings up images of that awful Mekong whisky!
Scotch tape made in Switzerland, according to the printing on the cardboard tube. It was a scavenging find- really good quality.
I bought some clear tape, unknown maker, with a kind of bubbly surface to the reel. Atrocious quality. That “bubbly surface” might be a thing to look out for, and avoid.
I’ve got a UTR (unique taxpayer reference) issued by HMRC, but whether the majority of UK eBayers have one, I don’t know. The equivalent of the SSN is the National Insurance number (NINO). The UTR is allocated when you do self-assessment (e.g. when self-employed or contracting) otherwise the NINO is used for Pay As You Earn (PAYE). That’s as I understand it- my comprehension might be imperfect.
I bought 30 CF of something called “Greenfill” at £32 (approx 40 dollars). They’re green, soluble, and stink of vinegar. Labelled as “Ecofill” on the website. If it’s the same as this stuff it’s made from steam-blown starch, and rodents won’t nest in it. Not surprised- I wouldn’t nest in it either.
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Antique Frog.
If it’s from 1995 it won’t be a tour poster- they were done by Michael Everett- one for the summer tour and another for the autumn tour which was cancelled ‘cos the lead guitarist succumbed to sleep apnea. From the Walnut Street Gallery website, appears that Richard Biffle was selling posters from his van at the concerts (I’m reading between the lines here) They say he now lives in Nederland (Netherland?) Wouldn’t surprise me, as them Dutch are really big on the old graphic stuff.
Adyen’s a Dutch company: it’s a “global fintech unicorn“, been going since 2006. Has an office in Manchester, England, where it’s intending to take on 160 extra staff. Does (apparently) the payments in some countries for Netflix, Uber and Facebook. Adyen accepts payments in more different types of wonga, mooli, wedge, kapusta and cash than any other comparable one-horned beast.
05/05/2020 at 9:01 am in reply to: Photo of man on vintage T shirt — possibly computer-related famous person #77063I did ask a “vintage computer expert”, runs a museum on an industrial estate near me. He said it’s most likely a screen grab from a video feed (which is why the image is side-on) done as a a promo at an exhibition. Probably nothing to do with Apple, as they came later than the typical dot-matrix type printouts of which this is an example.
My 2 pence is that the guy looks Arabic rather than black.
05/03/2020 at 11:26 pm in reply to: Photo of man on vintage T shirt — possibly computer-related famous person #76982Try and date it from the label. Looks ot me like it was done using a daisy-wheel or one of those printers with pins (can’t remember the name), maybe lashed up to a PDP-11 or similar, and then ironed on.
Of course, it could be Steve Job’s dad 🙂
First auction I attended was of an Apple dealer that had gone bust, about 1994. For some reason they had established a museum of Apple products in their back room. The room-full of equpiment, including a Lisa, sold for £150. I remember wondering why anybody would buy that load of junk.
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05/03/2020 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Photo of man on vintage T shirt — possibly computer-related famous person #76950Could be the electrical engineer himself, done at an early ’80s trade show. I’ve got a similar portrait of my father, done on fanfold paper at a trade show in London.
Web page illustrating payment choices available here. Not sure about the ‘direct debit’ option!
One side effect of this virus thing is that I’ve stopped using cash, using a contactless debit card instead. Shops have raised the limit on contactless transactions from £20 up to £45. Fortunately, as regards cash, all UK banknotes are now plastic so they’re easy to launder.
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