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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!
Thought 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.
Laser-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.
At the chemists:
“I’d like some rat poison please.”
“Sorry, we don’t stock that. Have you tried Boots?”
“I want to poison them, not kick ’em to death.”
At the ball.
He “You’ll have to excuse me, I’m a little stiff from polo”
She “I don’t care where you’re from- let’s dance!”
My mother made me a neurotic, and if you give her the wool she’ll knit you one too.
The worst thing is to go round the stalls with someone else, who, on hearing the price, loudly informs you that the seller is “having a laugh” and then proceeds to make a risibly low offer on your behalf.
The second worst thing is to go round with me, and have me ask you “What do you want to buy that crap for?”
Over on the right side of the painting- a red windmill (moulin rouge) which is presumably the fake windmill atop the real-life place. Looks like can-can dancers in the front.
Came across a business in Derby (UK) that replaces the hard disc in MacBooks with solid state discs- you might find a firm near you that does this (or do it yourself!). That is said to speed up the Mac. The other thing appears to be dust in the fans- these are apparently easy to pull out and clean.
I’ve got a MacBook Pro from about 2011. It had a problem with the fans running fast; turned out to be a “Mac Cleaner” that had installed itself. Has a MagSafe 1 with the usual frayed connection, to the point where it’s wired up using a terminal block right near the plug. Wish I’d taped the damn thing up. Going to bodge it up with a new lead and plug- getting into the transformer and soldering the connections is beyond me, so I’m going to join the two leads together.
It’s all Persian on eBay UK, including new home decor items, except for Iranian Embassy Siege (books and “art prints”). I suppose Persian Embassy Siege just sounds a bit naff.
I used “Qajar” to list a Persian tray after I got the Iran warning; you could try “Ayatollah’s Paradise” 😉
