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Had the feeling it was a drive belt. Did an image search for that; found a photo of a veteran motorcyle with one, searched for “veteran motorcycle drive belt” and found a mention of “Brammer” belting.
£20 a metre. Says down the bottom “This is the original Brammer type round rivet head belting. Not as easy to refasten as the modern T type Nutlink but it will look more original on older machines.”
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Antique Frog.
Hmm… name of a train… Flying Scotsman? Titfield Thunderbolt? Chattanooga Choo Choo? Thomas the Tank Engine?
02/02/2020 at 2:14 pm in reply to: Anybody familiar with the online Auction Site – LiveAuctioneers? #73584“An auction of rare and desirable goods, sourced from the most prestigious curbs, kerbs and pavements of His Majesty King George’s possessions in the Americas. In addition a most marvellous lottery, the prizes being capacious shorts in tweed and tartan, recently removed from certain rebellious colonists.”
02/02/2020 at 5:47 am in reply to: Anybody familiar with the online Auction Site – LiveAuctioneers? #73571Just checked their list of UK auction houses signed up to them. Interesting. That’s interesting as in “Oh, so you’ve just come back from holiday in Wuhan?” interesting.
In the UK, gold is VAT-free (Value Added Tax) but silver isn’t. With the VAT at 20% this gives an advantage to the private seller on eBay. So I’ve been told…
As to scrap gold and silver, I got £50 for 6 grams of 9K recently. That particular jeweller buys scrap sterling silver, but the processing is (for him) problematic. He can only melt small quantities, then pass them on to someone else who for a fee makes a larger bar which then for a further fee is assayed officially. Purity works out at about 85% due to lead solder etc.
01/30/2020 at 11:25 am in reply to: Must wait 24 hours on GSP sale for invoice to be sent to buyer??? #73488When I’ve sold items through GSP an attempt to send an invoice results in a message that the buyer has already been invoiced. Since the GSP buyers pay very quickly they must have been invoiced straightaway. The total paid by the GSP buyer was visible, including customs fees- I think it may still be, but for some reason the USA has dropped off the list of GSP destinations here in the UK. Last item I sold the buyer messaged me that he was unable to purchase it, him being in the US. I had to relist it for him with amended P&P.
It may be the word “uranium” rather than the type of glass. I did send one of these brown-glass Kodak lenses to Norway a while back, and at that time radioactive stuff was illegal to post
01/30/2020 at 9:43 am in reply to: Must wait 24 hours on GSP sale for invoice to be sent to buyer??? #73472Maybe the word “Uranium” is setting off some kind of alert. I mean text alert not Geiger-counter alert!
Just had an idea. The character in the shoe looks like it’s been handwritten using a felt-tip pen. Maybe the soles are bought-in by the cobblers, and they just marked the brand inside. It appears to be quite common for even high-grade shopes to have soles made by a different company (both leather and synthetic).
Apparently that’s the Chinese character ‘wáng’ meaning king. Second row down, sixth character across, where it says “Wáng king”.
<cough> If someone’s selling an “Antique Etruscan Victorian Persian Islamic Ornate Round Shield Brooch” I ain’t listening to a word that’s coming out of their mouth!
I recently discovered Alexander Scourby through listening to his readings of Jorge Luis Borges’ stories. It’s available as a pirated and somewhat disjointed 10-hour-long video on YouTube.
01/25/2020 at 1:12 pm in reply to: How to list an item when you can’t find any info about it’s very existence? #73276Now I’m wondering about that cat! Seems to be getting a buzz out of the zapping.
01/24/2020 at 6:37 am in reply to: How to list an item when you can’t find any info about it’s very existence? #73233I am currently (and sporadically) researching a drawing of a prominent figure in the history of medicine. They have a museum dedicated solely to them. I contacted the curator regarding this drawing, and I got the distinct impression of a lack of curiousity…
Just mentioning this, because I feel that insatiable curiousity builds knowledge (conscious or unconscious). Unless you’re a cat; if you are, please take care 🙂
01/23/2020 at 3:01 pm in reply to: How to list an item when you can’t find any info about it’s very existence? #73215That Microwise kitchenware looks like the sort of stuff Betterware and Kleeneze (both MLM companies) put in their door-to-door sellers’ catalogues. Appears to be run out of (or round the back of) a hotel in Bicester!
Scavenger alert! It’s not in the catalogue, it looks as if it’s an original (rough edges of the the paper down the bottom) and it looks like a Hockney. Might end up in the dumpster round the back of Sotheby’s after the sale if none of the porters recognise it.
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