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[HappyVagabonds]

Thank you. I forgot about Terapeak. If it hadn’t had all the original extras with it, I probably would have tossed it initially also

[HappyVagabonds]

Just finished listening to the latest podcast and had to smile at the parting things out portion. This is how I’ve made my living on eBay for years now. Its hard to beat a $200 car with a blown engine that you can turn into 2 or 3 grand. I’ve got a dozen cars waiting to be parted out but looks like I will be heading out of that line for at least the next “rest of my life” years (I hope). Came into a cache of transistor car radios & related parts (3000+ radios and all the parts/books/tools to start a restoration service) a few months ago. And just inherited enough vintage car parts that I will never get through it all (literally spent last 10 days doing nothing but moving parts, hundreds and hundreds of boxes of Studebaker parts).

I would absolutely recommend that anyone with a mechanical slant that wants to start an eBay business that they look into parting out cars. Best thing to do is pick a weird niche of vintage cars and seek out those cars and parts. like British Leyland (MG, Triumph, Jaguar, etc), which has been very kind to me in the past.

Ya’ll stay safe,
John

[HappyVagabonds]

Thank you for everyone’s input. It took me nearly an hour to decide whether to buy this because $40 for a poster was bit much for my low-cost scavenger mindset, but I liked it and couldn’t find anything during that hour on my phone that showed it as a bad deal. I looked at the eBay solds for R. Biffle Grateful Dead posters and most were $75+. Not the best mark-up value but figured worth the gamble since some went for couple hundred (and worst comes to worst, I love the Dead, thought the poster pretty cool and wouldn’t be upset to hang it in my office and hold out for a better price in the future). I’m going to try and get it listed today as an auction and will post the results when it ends for anyone interested in the outcome. If it sells for $1000+, then everyone who has posted here is invited to a free lunch on me (once the plague has ended, of course) down here in South Carolina.
Thanks,
John

[HappyVagabonds]

I think I may be on the right track (or just getting lost down in another rabbit hole). Vintage Datsuns had very similar symbols for their 510 1600GL / 1800GL Bluebird series. No exact matches yet but found some very similar GL emblems.

I will definitely post if I can get a final answer or an exact match. This is just one of those little things that’s driving me crazier (the big things drove me insane years ago).

Thanks,
JohnBoy

[HappyVagabonds]

Well, I feel better that I wasn’t missing something obvious. It’s got that late ’70’s / early ’80’s feel to it to me. I was starting to wonder if maybe it was from an alternative form of transportation like a vintage camper or golf cart or some such. Only other thought I had was that it may be from a company that did custom conversions for vans back in the day.

Thanks to everyone who responded and if anyone has any other ideas, please let me know.
Best regards,
JohnBoy

[HappyVagabonds]

Thank you for the details and pricing info. It may not be worth much $$ but I got more then what I paid for it in the fun research and knowledge gained on the subject in general.

Thanks,
John

[HappyVagabonds]

I believe the “BH” stands for “BRITISH HUB CO. LTD.” The Birmingham is for Birmingham, England. This does look like it was part of a vintage motorcycle sidecar heavy duty hub assembly. Here is a vintage ad with this cap shown in it:

https://www.mortonsarchive.com/?Action=VF&id=15782737640&ppwd=kr%7C32504nbw%7C94058bgp%7Cmortons-archive

Thanks,
John

[HappyVagabonds]

Very cool. Thanks Sharyn and hope you are having a great time down in Florida. I hope to check out Edison/Ford Winter Estates on my next trip down there.

The battery packs for these miner’s headlamps were rechargeable. The item I have is a box that would be hooked to a supposedly fully recharged battery pack to test if it was truly charged and good for another 8-12 hrs of use underground. I guess this would make sense if it took you a long time to get down into the mine to where you are going to work and then have your headlamp die in 2 hrs instead of the expected 8-12 hours. I’m going to guess that there were probably a very limited number of these testers made. Looking at the construction it is apparent that these were not mass produced and were probably made by hand one at a time. I will try to get some photos added to this post shortly.

Thanks,
John

[HappyVagabonds]

Here’s a link to the worthpoint listing:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/thomas-edison-miners-lamp-battery-536993116

[HappyVagabonds]

Just finished listening and in reply to the one of the voicemails:

Instead of paying to intercept a USPS Priority mail package, would it make more sense and save more money just to tell the “buyer” to write ‘Return to Sender’ on the unopened package and not be out the $13.00?

The Happy Vagabonds
John-Boy

[HappyVagabonds]

W. A. Taylor & Company is a liquor distributorship that started back in the 1880’s. I found a similar store display doll called “Old Smuggler” from 1950’s. Do a basic ebay search using the following and you should pull up a couple of these similar dolls for sale on ebay currently. Hope this helps. Search:

old smuggler store display

Thanks,
Johnboy

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