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…you can remember “reflectoporn” and “bearded man in wedding dress” (the two are not connected 🙂 )
I’ve got a friend who has a longstanding interest in electric guitars and valve amplifiers, so if I see a guitar in a thrift shop or dumped on the street (happens!) I check it out. However having watched some videos on assessment and repairs I realised there’s no way I could successfully buy and resell guitars- too many areas where faults and wear develop. Violins on the other hand- they’re simple, small and usually come in a hard case, and the bows can be valuable on their own.
Just checked my local Freecycle group. “Old duvet only suitable for outdoor use”. “Still available. IKEA picture. Plastic has a large scratch across which you can see in sunlight but not obvious in normal indoor lighting.” “APC 650W UPS- Needs new battery to work.” “Non working but repairable 24″ computer monitor- repairable if you have the electronics skills/tools and patience (see YouTube videos on how to do it).”
Well, at least they’re not flytipping their junk.
“Sea of mess”? Surely that’s a sea of cheese.
Ear protection’s also good. How tinnitus drove musician to brink of suicide.
Fortunately, according to some DNA testing site, I’m one-third Neanderthal, so I don’t need to wear a safety helmet, or need a licence to hunt mammoth.
12/26/2019 at 4:28 am in reply to: A matter of perspective: My mental tool to help me move on bad buyers. #72111$20 is way cheap to make someone “go away”. Doesn’t cover the cost of cement, bucket, chains and gaffer tape here. Also the local river’s only four feet deep.
Thinking about it, if I buy or sell at a flea market, car boot, antique fair, the items aren’t marked with prices (tried that, bad idea). So the seller has to verbally state the price, and deal with the face-to-face reaction of the punters. Keeps the prices realistic.
Thrift shops have stickered prices. Also there can be restrictions on staff and volunteers lowering prices for customers; stops family and friends getting bargains.
However, on the principle that not everybody knows everything, even in an overpriced thrift shop there’s probably going to be one or two items that are cheap for what they are.
…you get an INAD on that shrunken head the Yanomami sent you to sell on consignment.
The thrift bookshop I volunteer at tries to sell online, via eBay, Amazon and the national charity’s own website. However it takes so long for a volunteer* to research, value, photo and list the item that I doubt if they get more than half-a-dozen items online in a good day. Also they find it difficult to prioritise. For example, I’ve been asked to go through what looks like 3,000 mass market fiction paperbacks to sort out what can be put online. Meanwhile the “rare book” stock piles up (literally).
*not me- I’m too useful as a sack mover and sorter 🙂
L. O. Griffith (without the abberant ampersand)
Nice piece! Cast iron is (I think) just iron that’s poured into a mould, rather than beaten out, as wrought iron is. So it’s cast iron whether it’s in one piece or several.
Must admit, from the shape I’m not sure that it is cast iron- the curved pieces will be a bit fragile as cast iron has no bending strength.
As you say, the screws aren’t old. If this was a UK piece I’d think it was off the top of a downpipe or a sewer vent pipe, i.e. to stop birds nesting on top.
Image search on “Chinese jade bird” returned a few of these with crests. All identified as ‘bird’ 🙂 Except one that was ‘Mandarin duck’!
At a guess, Mandarin duck.
Only one owner as well! Must have been an 18th birthday present from his dad, back in 1965.
Used food? That’s tomorrow’s “potage de jour”. The rest is just gravy.
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