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@HV: Strange that listing did not pop up in our Worthpoint. Also the home page of your listing looks different than ours. But when I paste your link into our WP it pops up. Did a new search and it popped up. We have had a subscription for years. Wonder why two different looking web home pages we see?
Any how: Here is the rest of the copy that is posted along with the item link.
Pricing & History
Sold for $29.95 Sold Date Jul 01, 2014
Worthpoint Category Transportation and Vehicles
Original Category Collectibles : Transportation : Railroadiana & Trains : Hardware : Lanterns & LampsThis is an antique miner’s lamp battery tester designed by Thomas Edison many years ago. It probably belongs in a mining museum, but I have no contact with any. I don’t know what it is worth, but the age should determine that. If you can document the value I will accept anything close to that. Please feel free to ask any questions or offer any advise. Buy it now and get free shipping, my choice of service.
Hope this helps a little bit more.
mc @ MDCGFA in Atl
Yep Simon. That’s what I meant. Don’t use them either but was trying to recall their name off the top of my head.
Thanks
MC at MDCGFASame for me. No results if the word test, tester, testor is used. But without the KW “Test*.*” in any part and drop out Thomas, I see edison battery packs with small lamps all mostly under $75. So if the lamp and complete battery packs is under $75, then I would assume just a tester for the batteries would be much less.
mike at MDCGFA
Same here for us as all the members have stated above. For high end, almost new and not pre-bent we use a 8x6x4 box. We also use a plastic bag over our caps but we do this when we first store them. So we pull the item, sort of fold in the soft back faric a little and put in a box.
A few years back we all had a discussion about Scottie Mailers, which are made of lighter cardboard and just a bit smaller in size and that members were then sliding the scottie Mailer into a padded envelope and folding the envelope over and taping. This “package” made for lighter weight and less postage and I think the topic was mentioning that the Scottie Mailer was less costly that a regular fluted, 175 Test weight, brown box.
Speaking of the Scottie Mailer, Google that phrase and there are several YouTube videos on the Scottie Mailer, it’s size and costs and show how to ship caps. Also go ahead and check for videos hats, wide brim dress hats, Cowboy hats and the such. So many videos out now on how to do almost everything. Worth a look see.
mc at MDCGFA
P.S. Could you imagine Jay sitting in a committee room and saying “No way in hell are we going to spend 3 Trillion Dollars on that!. Aren’t there some used ones laying around somewhere?”.
And we would never see a newspaper headline that read “President Jay approves a $900 toilet seat for Air Force One!” 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes but it is a bit clunky.
Of course first step is to type in your search term into either the SL “Search the Blog” [older data] or “Search the forums”. Then hit enter. Next the results are going to pop up. But as you said there are a long lists of SL posts that will contain the search term or single words.
I just typed in “How to ship a hat” into the SL search field and got 6,135 hits that contain the word “hat”
BUT..Here is the But.. IF YOU ARE ON A Windows operating system [desktop crig]. Next hold the “control key down and hit the “F” key. This will bring up the Microsoft mini search bar in the lower left corner. Now type in the main focus of the SL search term you already used, in my case I typed in “Hat”, then next to that search field Microsoft lets you select a few criteria, like highlight the search finds, Match the Case and Whole words. I click on “HighLight” and “whole Words. That then found 15 posts out of the 6,135 that SL found and presented to me that contained all the search words.
Now to navigate to those 15, use the down arrow key and the MS search will take you to each of those 15 results and the word “Hat” is solid highlighted. Makes it much easier to find. Just keep hitting the down arrow key, and you will jump to the next highlighted word “Hat”. rince and repeat.
This is a whole lot better than having to sift through 6,135 SL posts that comes up with just the SL results. And yes, the highlighted word will show you “TOPICS” that contain the word and you can read down from there.
It is not perfect, and you can play with searches within search results. But at least a help.
You can do the same for both the Blog and the Forum posts but the blog is even clunkier.
Try searching for your name and then use a topic you have talked about and see if it finds it.
Ryanne’s name popped up on 1,681 posts and Jay’s popped up 2.900 times. Go to the BLOG search and put in Jay and then use the Control F key for the MS search bar, type in President and you will see where a member was proposing Jay run for “President”. Ha-Ha LOL 🙂Hope this helps a little.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
I am in a hurry right now but to help you out do a search on both the “blog” and this Forum. Put in how to ship a hat.
We all have had that question asked dozens of times over the years and also dozens of members have responded with dozens and dozens of answers. Also search Scottie Mailers. These will pop up in the discussions.
Have to run out for a meeting.
Good luck.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
And at a longer look, yep Ryanne is more on point. If a golf spike wrench, it would have a different configuration to the nut end. Maybe this more like what Ryanne said just a “spike” remover for another type of athletic shoe, but who knows maybe Nike does have a golf spike that the hex socket fits over.
And the bag, holds the cleats. I know football shoes have different type of spikes for muddy fields vs. dry grass and artificial turf.
That just may be a pastel drawing on felt. Most papers, even hand made European papers don’t have that much ‘fuzziness” to it. Velvet is not as coarse but hard to tell from not seeing it very close up and getting to run my hand over it.
If the back is the same texture, that moves it closer to felt. But if it has a backing that is different it may be a “flocked” material whereby one material is onlaid onto another. Sort of like “laminated” so to speak.
Also just because the image isn’t dusty or smears like chalk-pastel. There is a product called “Fixative”. It is used to spray over pastel, charcoal drawings to “Fix” the image to the substrate. It acts almost like “hair spray”. It is clear and with several light coats, pastel, chalk, charcoal will not smear.
If that is an original did get her or her family’s permission to “reprodcue” her image and place it on Imgur??? No, only kidding, 🙂 🙂 happens all the time, but still “technically” true.
I could be totally wrong on this account because there are some art papers that could come close to producing this effect-look. Would have to tear a very, tiny, sliver and then examine the torn edge under one of our more powerful microscopes. 100x or more to dechiper more.
Hopes this helps somewhat…
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
And the bag is called a “ditty Bag”. Used to hold a golfers watch, rings, bracelt, keys and or wallet. By using the ditty bag everything stays together and doesn’t get all loose and falling around inside your gold bag. Gold bags have deep pouches and hard to find small things are a big nusiance to find loose in the bottom so golfers use Ditty bags.
Most spike wrenches are doubly, chep, come in pleister packs usually along with a divot tool, cleat scraper blade to dig mug and packed on gras out of your cleats.
Even a Nike one isn’t too much but unless you are brand proud a Walmart one did great by me for many years.
Yes, when you decide to cancel a listing yourself, then a quick message pops up and says that any allocation plans that were pre-set have been removed and will have to be set agagin upon relisting. That is with versions that have the allocation plan module. But in any case, if you manually end a listing(s), then you will have to do a manual relist yourself.
sixBit has no way of knowing why you “manually force end” a listing and won’t auto re-list it. What if you broke the item, lost the item, or sold it on another platform [if you don’t have the “Duo” version like Troy and I do, then it is up to the user to list, end, and re-list manually as those events occur.
mike at MDCGFA
One other quick note. It is procedural. Upon looking at your fiends listing, I see that he has not opted in for the Global Shipping Program and also has his preferences set for “Domestic Shipping Only”. The listing says the books are in Boston and that he only ships to the United States.
If he would opt into the GSP then it would be much cheaper for him to just ship everything to Erlanger, KY USA and then Pitney Bowes [Ebay’s International Contract Shipper], would handle the whole transaction.
accepting an International offer is going to mean the seller will have to handle all of the details that involve the custom forms, VAT value added taxes, import fees and dealing with any specific laws pertaining to the item being imported, books in this case. Not that is any big problem but still should be considered in advance.
When I looked at the listing, went to the shipping tab, it did not even allow me to select a country other than the United states so what is the buyer thinking that the shipping is going to cost him and how did he even see the listing in the first place?
Another issue will be both Buyer and Seller protections. With the GSP both would have some protections under that program.
And lastly, consider how you have your listing or store set up. Better insure this item and for $1,000 it will be a cost. Who will pay for return shipping if the buyer decides not to keep the books and what damage will be done to the books if they have to make a round trip to and from Hong Kong and they are not re-packed very well.
So, a lot to think about. Considering the listing states he only sells domestically in the USA I wonder how the item was seen in an International listing. I don’t think Hong Kong is considered “domestic”.
Good luck figuring it out.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
@ Rick.. Sure but if only done by the original artist of the first image and then the same artist doing the “over painting”. Doing a mixed media piece is fine if by the same artist. But doesn’t make sense if the under painting is totally covered and not seen, then what is the purpose of the time and cost of paint for the “under-bottom” image. Most mixed media works are done in such a way as to allow the viewer to experience the mixture or combination of multiple mediums used to create the final, viewable image.
If the original artists is printing off a whole bunch of his original works, then quickly doing a fast cover up of the bottom image just to show the detailed brush strokes and because of doing it this way he can hand reproduce a large quantity of “so called originals” just to sell on multiple patforms, then is it ethical? Debatable?
I see the same image on a good many sights and it is by the same artists and being described as an “original oil or acrylic painting”. If it is an original, there is only one not 10. But it could be only one and the artist has cross listed it on the other sights. When it sells, he kills the other listings. But in more than I would like to think, he does have 10 and they all look “original” and also done by hand. with very distinctive brush strokes.
In some cases when the artist places his order for the digital canvass prints of his work, he will have the print house gang up several images in different sizes on the print production roll. Then when he cuts them up and stretches them, he over paints all of them and he ends up with 5 or 6 in 4 different sizes.
The art market has gotten so messed up these days, especially with the introduction of digital presses that are 60″ x 100 feet or more and can print on almost any material up to an inch thick. You can get a lot of images on a 20 color Roland or HP wide format printer that can handle a 60″ x 100 ft. roll and print in such a manor using 3rd generation Piezo heads that it is damn near impossible these days to tell a reproduction image because a Giclee print does not print in 4-color CMYK and uses no halftone dots. About the only way will be extreme magnification, like a microscope which can detect the faint spray droplets that comes from a nozzle print head or a chemical test.
The art business can get really detailed if one wants to wade into the weeds.
Take care…
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
This is a topic that will require one of my “wall of texts” as Jay calls them, so I will reserve an answer to when I have more time and also do it on a separate thread.
But as a preview it will, revolve around modern day forgery methods as compared to former pre-digital methods of how to make forgeries, mass produced forgeries, copyright infringement, illegal practices and royalty evasion.
Also a little history on the evolution of the printed image as it transformed into the faking of brush strokes and the transition into over painted duplicate or fake original.
This activity though is OK if the original was done by the producer of the new series of “hand made over painted duplicates” though not really ethical if the original artist is selling his own, multiples and claiming as originals, but only if done by the original artist of the original work.
Where it becomes forgery and a crime is if there is a signature on that digital “under print image”. The knock off artist in China’s Art Alley take digital printed images of work by other artist, buy dozens of then step and repeated on a large roll of canvass, cut them out, stretch them and then do quick over paints of the image below and sell them as their own and even at times paint in a fake alias signature.
I may even include in that series a section on the Encho En Mexico families of artist who create original oil on canvass paintings that are done by teams of family members who pull out a 100 foot roll of canvass on long tables in old airplane hangers and factory buildings and go down the assembly line creating dozens of original paintings and signing all of them. Many of those end up in mall art galleries or in hotel art stores.
So I will leave it at that until I have the time to maybe do a “wall of text” the subject.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
