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06/18/2019 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Victorian (1880's?) Antique Solid Brass Hand Holding Light Socket Sconce #63677
Don’t know if you get them in the US, but I’ve seen quite a few brass lamps purporting to be railway carriage lamps. Marked ‘GWR’ on a small plaque.
Described by a dealer as “a flimsy copy of an item that never existed and are practically worthless.”
Watched a video of him hunting hubcaps. Those plastic hubcaps have gone quite rapidly out of use in the UK- they were a pain in the neck, having to use cable ties to secure them. We’ve got plenty of potholes though (and an added bonus in the inner city, potholes with cobbles at the bottom).
Yes, “my uncle was a Michigan farmer. Uncle Steve used to go on long trips round Europe and come back with lots of these”. 😉
Think it says “H —dger”. Bodger, badger, dodger, cadger, lodger, todger? No, maybe not todger 🙂
06/16/2019 at 9:06 am in reply to: Well… full-time it is! My eBay Journey goes full throttle. New Journal #63518I’ve never heard anybody say “long-liived”, not even wurzels, but then someone pointed out on a webpage somewhere that if you were to say “cats are nine-lived” then it would have a long ‘i’.
I heard some Shakespeare in ‘original pronunciation’ some time back, and it’s a lot less tedious!
Hmmm… I sold an “Indian cigarette case” yesterday. Was about to post it when I realised the buyer lived about a mile away. Had a very interesting visit (turns out he collects Yemeni coin purses, and this was one). Distances here are so much smaller 🙂
Starts thinking. I haven’t checked, but there’s certainly one Amazon warehouse about ten miles away, and possibly another about 20 miles away. If I sent a box in by Hermes, it’ld get delivered by a courier in their own car, so I can’t see there would be anything problematic in me dropping off stuff. Collecting unsolds might be more difficult.
Thanks Amatino! That tie reminds me of those tests for colour blindness, where you have a number hidden in a lot of dots.
I remember years ago attending a course on starting up in business- the lecturer wore a selection of cartoon character ties (Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck etc.) He had a sideline in selling Rolexes and Swatches, and was boasting about how he paid the airfare for someone to go to Switzerland to buy limited edition Swatches, ‘cos he made such a good profit on reselling them! This would be about 1997. The ’80s took a long time to die…
According to (cough) Wikipedia, Tommy Bahama was founded in 1993, or 1992 according to the employee’s handbook quoted by one editor. If it’s “a lifestyle of never leaving the beach” how come they’re selling ties? Do they make extra-long ties for the naturist beach? 🙂
It’ll play on an older Apple Mac, but you’re restricted as to the number of times you can change the region code. (that’s from maybe unreliable memory)
I was at the eye clinic a couple of days back, and had to sit through an entire episode of “Homes under the hammer”. One of the “homes” was a back-to-back house in Halifax.
Yeah, Glastonbury’s on in a couple of weeks. I gather when the festival ends, the site’s left with hundreds of abandoned ‘pop-up’ tents.
I sold a pair of frayed and faded swimming trunks a while back- it was the sewn-on proficiency badges that sold it. So I guess it might be worthwhile emphasising the badges (and maybe describing them as scout badges- I saw ‘BSA’ and assumed they were Birmingham Small Arms badges!)
On the other hand, maybe there’s some ‘vintage hiking groups’ out there… Those framed rucksacks always gave me earache though.
Not entirely relevant, but you may find this useful.
I listed a heavy piece of electronic test equipment (about 3 kilos or 7 pounds) on auction. Got 87 watchers and a couple of very interested bidders from Spain, one of whom won it. Turned out that the GSP was 15 GBP (about 22 USD) for insured airmail, for an item worth about 350 GBP.
There’s two pieces on this site which calls the pattern “Oriental Art Deco”.
(wild guess) Pot made for a Japanese or Japanese-style product or restaurant.
The symbols are vaguely reminiscent of Shinto (gateway), the handle looks Meiji era-style, the Porcelier company’s American and there’s a similar pot with similar symbols listed as “1930s Chinese restaurant” (link was via Google images to an aggregator site which failed to provide a direct link)
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