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Hey shortcut:
Found three of them that sold.
All at $49.99, including frame. Also a lot of 6 of them sold for $103=$17.17 ea. They have made them each year back into the late 70’s 80’s. I saw several from 1985 [different image each year of course] for the two hundred dollar range, but as they got newer the prices went down.Tip many times I get better results if I use [and the site will let me], use “Boolean” language in your searches. BTW.. Ebay last 90 day sold searches is just the tip of the ice berg in research for real old and-or high dollar items. We subscribe to several databases and research sites along with having a long list of saved sites in our browser side bar. On our antiques we subscribe too and use Kovels Antique Price Guide, published each year. It also teaches the reader a lot about the items researched. History, who made, when closed down and lots of stuff that is great to use in our descriptions. But we usually go with gut on items less than $50 due to the time to do deep research.
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http://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=%22book+country%22+poster* New York Is Book Country 1996 Poster By James Gurney 20X26 Books Of Wond Sold for: $49.99 Source: eBay Sold Date: Jun 11, 2016
** New York is Book Country 1996 Framed Poster by James Gurney Books of Wonder RARE
Sold for: $49.99 Item Category: Fine Art Source: eBay Sold Date: Nov 19, 2016
New York is Book Country 1996
The Poster is in great condition The frame has some scratches
Measures approximately 20 1/2″ wide by 27″ tallHope this helps…
mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaHaving been in the screen printing business for over 30 years.. the best way to get an over all print on t-shirts and even large bolts-rolls of fabric that you buy at fabric stores is done by Sublimation Dye Transfer or also called heat transfer. Material is Sub. Heat Transferred at the mill in large rolls then broken down into bolts and sold to fabric shops. Thus we have the phrase woven printed fabrics.
On pre-made goods such as shirts and even ceramics [plates, mugs and cups] depending on the chemical composition of the actual dye and substrate printed on [also a “mirror” [backwards image], the transfer is done by using a heat press and pressing the material in between two heated “platens” [rubber coated] plates.
At the mill the mirror image is using printed by large web presses [just like large newspaper printing presses]. Then that material is, at high speed, unrolled out onto various fabrics and then the two pieces are run through heated, pressure rollers pressing the sub. dye top sheet against the lower layer ofg fabric, then as they come out of the press-transfer roller the paper image is rolled up on a “take-up” roll and the fabric, peeled away and rolled on the lower take up roller. this then printed material is broken down into the “bolts” you buy or is sent to mills to make into mostly women’s printed dresses and blouses.
now that process is the same for heat transfer of decal like images to ceramics. Many plates that you see, even by companies like Limoges, Staffonshire, even Tiffany will use a pre-printed decal and mechanically transfer that sublimation dyed decal image by laying it in contact with the ceramic-porcelain object and apply heat and dwell time, then peel away and the image is transferred, onto that non-porus surface. Many mugs, cups, plates, vases are done this way. Even J&R mugs they sell are done this way.
Now in today’s world you can even buy heat transfer paper for your home printer, buy heat transfer sublimation dye ink cartrideges and create your own “Iron on Heat Transfer” and create your own custom images in Photoshop and make and sell your own T-Shirt designs.
I believe your T-shirt was probably done by the heat transfer method.
Unlike a older “silk screened” image, the dye transfer has a “soft hand” or in other words, feels very soft since the dye is impregnated “into the fibers”. With “silk-screened” items the ink layer is very thick and you can “feel” the ink layer and it feels thick and if “plastisol” inks were used, even feels rubbery. Many athletic garments use silk screen printing and the thick Plastisol inks for the jersey numbers and names. Many of these garments thugh will begin to crack after a period of time and going through the laundry [process numerous times.
A tip on determing if your ceramic item was done as a heat transfer is to look at the image with a magnifier or loupe and see if you can see if the image is composed of tiny dots [half-tone screen]. If you see tiny dots, then it was printed on a printing press or digital printer and then fused by heat onto your object. Even when something says hand painted, it is usually meant that the original was hand painted, then photographed [a reproduction made in to a transfer], then that substrate material applied with pressure and heat and the final reseult is a dye transfer onto porcelain-ceramic objects.
Hope this helps you with your shirt, but everyone as to identifying real hand painted work, real silk screen printed garments from the high production heat transfer process.
take care… mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
This is what is called an offsetting expense. Yes, everyhting you spend on paying Ebay for shipping labels and fees are an “expense” BUT you also have to declare the money you receive from your customers as “Income”, thus “offsetting”. You will pay taxes only on the difference if you “receive” more income than your expenses, except if you have other deductions to declare that will wipe out that small profit.
Example, you get $4,000 income from your customers [which you can see those break outs on your monthly PayPal statement] that is their share of the shipping they paid, then you have to pay [reimburse] Ebay/PayPal for what they do [labels, pay USPS for you and their fees] of $3,750, that then leaves you a profit that would be taxable of $250. But once you deduct all your other “office expenses”, such as “office supplies”, tape, plain vanilla boxes, staples, pencils, pens, trash bags, etc., etc. that $250 dollar profit is pretty much wiped out, so a wash. But in a double entry accounting system, you have both an income stream and an expense stream which pretty much “offsets” each other.
Hope this makes sense. If I am wrong there are others here who are practically Accountant type guru’s who will straighten me out.
mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaSame for me here in GA. Jay. When I sign up to bid at auction houses, they take a copy of my certificate and just keep it on file. We only pay Sales Tax on sales we make here in GA. I paid the state of Georgia a whopping $25 last year. No sales tax needs to be paid on anything sold out of state.
The Feds have been trying to get this altered nationally for some years now but it is so convoluted. It would mean we as sellers would have to paqy taxes in every state and in some cases even in multiple counties if the Feds ever get this type of thing passed. But for now, we only pay sales tax on items sold within our state and I think most are like that.
If you have been paying sales tax to your state on all of your sales you make nationwide and overseas, they “owe” you a bunch back big time. !!
mike in atl.
Appreciate the reply and reference links. I listened to several of her videos using headphones. Boy her rapid fire, non-stop delivery with her high pitched voice, gets a little tough after several of these, :-).. but found some interesting tips here and there.
Thanks… mike at mdc galleries in atlanta
Good Morning and just having my first pot of “Hot” coffee. Mmmm….
Here is an interesting link explaining the details of the Hot vs Cold Coffee question, and the why’s to the flavor differences.mike in atl.
Give this a try. On anything “unglazed” [which is probably bisque] or any surface as a matter of fact, try Benzine [that is lighter fluid]. It has a high “Flash” point, which means it evaporates extremely quick. Use a cotton T-shirt piece of rag, soak a small spot on the torn rag piece of cotton and try that. Do a small section at a time and as you do the areas, just blow on the area and the Benzine will flash off in half a second. This way you won’t be leaving anything on the surface to “soak into” the porus surface. Things like “Goo Gone” or “Goof Off” will have a petroleum base, which is oily, and those oils will start to soak in and cause slight staining.
Depending on the time you take on the item, you will have to keep wetting the cloth due to the fact the Benzine will keep flashing off quickly, so you have to keep re-wetting the cloth.
We use Benzine all the time. We usually buy 2 or 3 cans of it when we go grocery shopping. We sometimes will wet a large area and wipe off a whole piece to get the yellow, sticky haze from a cigareete smokers house. Kitchen items that has years of cooking grease coating a whole piece will clean up nicely and the colors come to life.
We use Ronson Brand, in the yellow and blue can. That seems to be the purest of them. BTW Benzine was used for many years as “Dry Cleaning Fluid” at your cleaners. If you are going to be using a whole can on a large object, we suggest opening a window or having a small fan for ventilation [unless you are a child of the sixties and like the “Buzz”.. LOL :-)]. But point it away from the piece and your rag. Remember it flashes off very quickly.
Give it a try in a small test area first and if works, then have at it !!!
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Thanks for the input Ryanne. Yep you are correct. We have edited the listing to state the 1919 date and added the “Red Eye” pattern.
My wife said she thinks that when we first ran a check on it about 3 years ago we couldn’t make out that the first character was the letter “G” or the number “6”. I think we thought it was a number six and looked it up on the actual Singer site and pegged it as to the 1885 date, prior to the use of the “letters” they used later. Now that it is cleaned up it is easier to see that the first character is the letter “G” not a “Six”. Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
Now that it is 34 years newer, do you think we should back off on that $495 list price or let it ride and see what offers may come in?
Mike in Atlanta
Hey Ryanne: Better late than never. The old Singer Sewing machine was pretty dirty and greasy, and wife Susan just wasn’t in the “let’s get all dirty and clean this thing” mood last week. But we finally did, used Simple Green. Didn’t want to disturb any of the paint or acidentilly shine the brass and lose any patina.
But here is the results and we have it up and posted in the Ebay store.http://imgur.com/1V4Jhjl
http://imgur.com/KWS0ZCR
http://imgur.com/pLf73DD
http://imgur.com/F9Jtg7LIt was / is hard to tell the exact serial number but we went with G 7403528. The Singer site puts it around 1883-1885.
We got the whole thing for $75 at a local auction. We sold the base off of it a few years ago for $125, then we took the machine out of the wood base, disassembled everything and sold the 4 drawers for $40 each. So up to this point we got $285 total out of it. So now we have this main sewing unit up for $485 BO and maybe someone at a museum or someone needing parts for refurbish will step up to the plate. We will see.Take Care… mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hi Christine:
Thanks for the reply. I will follow up on researching and viewing the videos you mentioned. We are eager to see how it goes also. Will check out those videos before we make our next move onto Etsy.
Will definitely post back the results and the trials and tribulations of the process after we work through it all.
Thanks for the reply…
mike at mdc galleries in atlantaHey Jay:
From what I gather from a couple of sources.. One is that I can use WonderLister to export a file that will import into Etsy. WL will create a .CSV file and then I will edit that file to only contain the columns that will import into Etsy. Doing some experiments this week, but I did one into Shopify and everything worked and moved over except some scrambling of the item specifics.Also the WL Tech. Engineers are also working with Etsy for permission to access Etsy directly and developing a module that will do the same thing it can do on Ebay. Unsure of how long before it goes live. It is not even in BETA yet, but I hear that is coming. If successful, then everything would be automatic, and as you have said before though, it will have a subscription cost associated with it. But we are willing to pay to have “Robots” do a lot of work for us. LOL 🙂
Worst case scenario will be as we create a listing and upload to Ebay from WL, then just copy and paste the listing into Etsy one at a time. I can pull the description from WL as either HTML code or directly from the WYSIWYG view. I use two monitors side by side so having multiple views and screen open really helps. And I think there is either a third party app that helps do this. Depending on cost, that would be an option that would just be classified as a “cost of doing business” for us.
Then of course as you and I have heard we will have to do some interior work on the Etsy listing by inputting the meta tags, tweaking the title and paying attention to standard SEO protocols that Google pays attention to.
Guess you can see we are just on the beginning cusp of maybe doing this. So, if we have to just create two separate manual listings we will. Just more time but probably worth it if Sales increase.
Wonder what Omfug and others on here that have a stable Etsy store do for their process?
But the fear of selling an item when it is cross listed just doesn’t concern us.
mike in atl.
Hi Christine: ..
May I ask why you would not cross list on Etsy? We cross list on Bonanza and was just getting ready to do the same on Etsy. We monitor our account almost 24/7, so if something sells on Ebay then we would just delete it within minutes from Etsy and vice versa. The chances of something selling at the same day, time and minute on both is non-existent, so why not have all of your Ebay items on Etsy since Etsy now allows anything vintage over 20 years of age?To further explore this will re-post over at the Selling on Etsy Topic area.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Oh man RTWV.. What a miss. I used to play golf a lot when younger. There are guys that only use Callaway everything and those being almost brand new!!! That would mess my day up also.. Just like when we drop out of the bidding for an auction item just to see it sell for $2.50 more than our drop out bid. Makes your stomach drop.
If that had been a Weigh and Pay the old man would have been probably run over and had it grabbed from him LOL 🙂 …. Well keep up the search. Onward and Upward!
mike in Atlanta
I am with you Omfug. Have two great ladies who run my route. I have a map of the route they “work / run” each day and highlighted in yellow. IThey both gave me their private cell numbers and I can call them any day that I have late day sales and they will swing back by for a pick up on their way back to the main post office.
They are the extension of our shipping dept. and I have told them many times they are a partner in our business and without them we couldn’t continue to have our top ratings. They are why we can ship same day many times.
We pull and pack most times between 6 AM and 9:45 AM [when they first come buy]. But if we have any sale come in between 9:45 AM and 1:30 PM, I pull, pack, label and call them and it’s shipped within hours.
They love it because during what is called the “hard count” period, the more packages that they scan during that official USPS counting period the route gets logged in at a higher rate due to the larger volume of packages. Then the head PO re-rates the route and that route then will pay more because of the increase in packages.
They always come up to our porch for the daily pick-up of packages which we leave on a metal bakers rack for all of our out going and incoming mail.
They are great, love ’em, and the rates are just a cost of doing business. I used to move 18 million dollars of freight through our Memphis printing plant and USPS gave us the least problems of all of them, but we did use a ton of freight trucking lines for most of our “skidded products”.Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
