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Bamber Gascoigne’s “How To Identify Prints” is a good (and readable) guide to the various processes. Seems to be two editions- the first is pretty cheap secondhand, and covers all the traditional stuff.
Another interesting blog is Modern Printmakers, although it hasn’t been updated since March 2018. Also the writing style is a bit idiosyncratic.
The buyer should have received an invoice from eBay through the Global Shipping program. When I sell something to an international buyer and the item is listed to be sent via GPS I can’t invoice the buyer directly- I get an error message. Caveat- that’s the situation on eBay UK.
If that’s what’s happened here, then the buyer should have received an invoice from eBay. If you invoice them through PayPal you (probably) won’t be able to send it via GPS. Personally I’d leave it- it’s unclear why the situation has arisen, and you won’t benefit from sending a separate invoice.
I meant black ’40’- went to edit it and got locked out as a spammer!
The Frame Blog for a very time-wasting introduction to the world of high-value frames.
I learnt my lesson with a large signed print by a Nottingham artist who specialised in birds. Purchased for £2 from a car boot sale; the artist’s website indicated that they were selling prints for around £250. Had it reframed for a cost of about £75. Sold at auction for £5 (which meant income exactly zero after costs).
I recently bought a large piece of cloth which seems to be some kind of Polynesian artefact. Whatever it is, the original owner thought enough of it to have it professionally framed (and properly framed- not like the rubbish that many framers get away with) in a heavy 4 foot by 2 foot frame. Cost me £20. Frame, with its 4-inch wide mouldings, must have cost the owner around £150.
Gothic or Old English script on the middle (could be O T G, Old Timer’s Guild? Probably not) Red ’40’ suggests whoever had the pin spent 40 years doing something.
Bloke keeps on getting parcels nicked off his porch. In despair, he rigs up a camera, gets a video of a strange character in a brown cowl striding up to his door. Whips out a toy piano, plays a few notes, puts the piano back under his cowl, picks up the parcel and walks off.
Bloke takes the video to the coppers. “Oh, that’s Felonious Monk.” “And his sticky jazz hands.” “Why you showing us that, anyway?”
Suspect it’s more likely a shopping bag holder. Doesn’t seem to make any sense for hanging a purse or a handbag, and explains why it’s rated for 20 pounds.
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 🙂
I’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…
