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I just have “Many thanks!!!” or “Extremely fast payment. Many thanks!!!” (the three plings are mandatory 🙂 ) One buyer left a “MANY THANKS!!!” in response. I just squirm if I have to read feedback left for me, which is what turns me off Etsy, with its buyers’ emotional exuberance in composing feedback.
There’s a very interesting DefCon talk on the dark web, which touches on the feedback system for sellers of illegal drugs. The speaker’s point was how can you trust the customers’ feedback when they’ve just smoked “the best meth ever!!!!!”
Ha! Timo got it- old cigarette lighter peeping out in the box (I hope- haven’t had a chance to inspect the lot yet!)
Going to have fun selling that white box in the top right! Especially if it still has its contents.
Just for a bit of fun- I won this lot today. What’s the most valuable item in this tray?
(I’m basing my appraisal on a similar item which, although broken, sold for £80 after I bought it for £1 in a thrift store)
If I can’t identify the artist, I give up 🙂 Took me twenty years to identify a signed print by J. Lewis Stant- I had to wait for Al Gore to invent the internet. I suppose a commercially successful artist thinks of their art like a cheque- you don’t sign a cheque in block capitals but with some indecipherable squiggle.
Came across a listing for a bag with similar strapping- vendor guessed that it was a drop bag for a howitzer part.
Them 1800s digital cameras- you can’t get the right sort of coal these days to run them 🙂
There’s vape pipe collectors, who are all probably millenials 😉 As for the collectibles (and the collectables) Bradford Exchange, Franklin Mint and Thomas Kinkade etc. are still advertising their junk in the back pages of TV listings mags, and Royal Crown Derby are still knocking out their interminable series of Imari paperweights so I suppose there’s still plenty of money in it.
Two-thirds of the way down this Wikipedia page there’s “glass bongs”.
Case in point: I checked over a Canon SLR for a friend last night- asked selling prices on eBay of camera $30, of the 58/1.2 lens $500. The lenses can be used on digital cameras (even really old ones from the 19th century) so there’s demand for unusual types.
It was sold with a Roeschlein Kreuznach Luxon f4.5 135mm lens, which I’ve never heard of but is apparently “the most interesting lens made for that system, and is a sought-after collector’s item today.” The lens mounted on the camera appears to be an aluminium-bodied Meyer Gorlitz thing; the grease on the focusing mechanism will be like treacle now!
11/15/2019 at 11:46 am in reply to: Anyone know who this is?? He’s depicted on a bunch of paper weights.. #70686Thought I’d qualify that. I wouldn’t try to sell them ‘cos I live alongside a community of Pakistani Moslems 🙂 You may have better luck.
11/15/2019 at 11:39 am in reply to: Anyone know who this is?? He’s depicted on a bunch of paper weights.. #70685Laser-etched paperweight. Picture appears to be Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister. Probably too divisive a politician to be worth trying to sell them.
Can’t help you with the value, but the camera appears to be a Praktica FX re-badged for export.
I sold an “Indian” purse that turned out to be Yemeni- the work looked similar.
Sharpie does come off pottery (in my experience- local charity shop uses it to mark the bases). Use toilet cleaner.
Ruskin Pottery apparently had a big export trade to the USA; it’s marked RUSKIN on the base. They also had a big line of ceramic roundels for pewter thingies and brooches.
Some tips what might be useful. Based on experiences at UK auctions.
Two bidders at a time only- wait until the auctioneer’s inviting further bids before waggling your paddle.
Don’t hold your arm up all the time to indicate you’re willing to continue bidding- leave the competition guessing!
Don’t forget the commission on top of the bid.
If you buy a box of stuff, check it’s all there. I bid £400 on a box of lenses, only to find that someone had half-inched the £1,000 one. Fortunately I was able to demonstrate to the firm that it’d gone- here you have to pay before you get to handle the goods you’ve won.
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