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Auction house sold these four West German vases for me yesterday- I will get 44 GBP (50 USD) after costs.
I picked up a very worn copy of the “Carver and Gilder’s Guide And Picture Frame Maker’s Companion” at the junk market yesterday. It belonged to a W E Dench, who’d used a business card of Bertram Dench (Principal Comedy) as a bookmark. Bertram was appearing in films in the 1930s, so I guess this card, which lists his troupe of comedians, must date back to the start of his career. Maybe he’s related to Judi Dench (James Bond’s M).
I just checked a friend’s listing (eBay UK) on eBay USA. It has his name, home address, telephone number and… actual BT email address!
Looks great! Really nicely furnished and gorgeous staircase/landing/attic room.
I spent a few hours last week vacuuming mouse droppings and dog poo off the floor of a hoarder’s house (and off the sofa- tide marks where the mice ran along the cushions), so I’ve got a really biased opinion 🙂
Looking at the photos, there’s three areas where holes in the panel have been patched with a different wood. They’re around the table and bookcase. There’s maybe another at the top where whoever patched it carved the patch to fit in with the key pattern.
I looked at some Qing dynasty cupboards online- this might be the central panel from a cabinet door and maybe pretty old when it was repaired, as the repairer didn’t have the right wood.
An example of professional picture-framing. Whoever paid to have this framed paid the equivalent of 30 dollars for the cards from a dealer (prices in pencil on the back) plus maybe 30 to 50 dollars for the framing. That’s this week’s scavenging (just recovered from my first and hopefully last bout of Covid)
(logs out, reads request again, has to look at grainy photos of blobs that might or might not be fire hydrants to log back in)
Chinese Antique Carved Wood Panel Scholar’s Objects
Chinese, representing a scholar’s study. There’s a Chinese table on top of which is a set of shelves holding scrolls, a brush holder with brushes and a vase with leaves in it. Next to it a screen and a viewing stone on a stand (had to look up what those lumps of rock are called). The border is a Greek key pattern.
Reckon it might be a door off a cupboard, with the brass bits at the top re-purposed hinges or decorations. Maybe the split in the wood’s due to being in a dry atmosphere.
I had a friend who did line drawings in ink of churches which he then had commercially printed. He used a Rotring pen which gives a line of constant width, which, I think, is how this drawing’s done. For some reason “dye line print” comes to mind- this was back in the 1980s- but I checked and I’m not sure.
Probably Penny- if I had to sign my name 200 times I’d be down to Antuuuu Fruuu by the 114th.
I worked in a couple of thrift bookshops. In the first each volunteer had an assigned number to access the till; any purchases had to be logged. In that shop stock went straight out on the shelves- it had already been picked from a central warehouse.
The second got most of their stock from donation bins in supermarket car parks. I could buy books from the back room- there was about half-a-ton coming in every week- but the book had to be priced using Abebooks or other sites by another volunteer. Did it once, with a book in Polish, and it took the poor volunteer about half-an-hour to actually find another copy for sale. Then the manager priced the book, and the purchase by the volunteer written down in a notebook by the till (along with whatever chocolate bars etc. they’d bought). Prices were slightly lower than the averaged internet price, i.e. too high for purchasing for resale.
There’s money in books… also tram tickets, billets doux and rashers of bacon.
07/13/2023 at 10:37 am in reply to: Sell video game stuff? This is the best site for parts/supplies #100573@craig-rex If the seller lists some photos of a general and a major in a office looking at some tinfoil grab ’em! Especially if General Ramey’s holding a memo 😉
Did the eccentric family member identify as a centipede?
@lukastreasuretrove I recognised the name Colonel Heflin. Turns out he was Base Commander of Roswell when that flying saucer had an uncontrolled flight into terrain.
@craig-rex I came across some slim volumes of poetry at a local thrift store a while back. I never thought of bundling them into a box sale! Just assumed there was no demand for that kind of thing.
Flow chart for scavengers:
Is there a demand for this type of thing? Yes/No
If Yes, do the people who want this type of thing have any money? Yes/No
If No, put back on shelf.
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