niel35
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posted on May 21, 2007 05:19:33 AM
Got some good stuff on Sat morn. Some old Wedgwood china, filthy and some chips but now clean and sparkling. Harry Potter books in perfect shape. Warner Bros Pepsi glasses, brown drip soups. I love to go, its a real treasure hunt.
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MAH645
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posted on May 21, 2007 08:43:11 AM
Why would you buy china thats chipped?
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max40
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posted on May 21, 2007 09:41:44 AM
Believe it or not--it's saleable. Some people will buy anything if the price is right. Besides, you don't want to start sorting a set at the garage sale. It gives the seller the idea that it might be worth more than they're asking.
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niel35
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posted on May 21, 2007 11:40:22 AM
You got it Max. I had to buy the whole box to get the good stuff. I couldn't sort it as would lose valuable time. This was like a church flea market for Hospice and they had lots of good stuff. I have sold broken china before. The teapot had a chip at the spout but perfectly good to collect and display.
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roadsmith
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posted on May 21, 2007 06:36:18 PM
Good going, Niel. There are some buyers of chipped china to use in mosaic tabletops etc. Some might even want the Wedgwood.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on May 22, 2007 01:23:23 PM
Or they need a replacement lid for their Wedgwood teapot.
Love those church sales - some of the best deals can be had there and "club" sales.
We were on the other side of the state and the sales were all duds but I did get some cobalt blue Fostoria stemware from the 30's or 40's at an estate sale on the way to the Gulf.
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pmelcher
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posted on May 26, 2007 12:07:41 PM
May 26, great yard sale day in the rain! Got two huge lidded jars full of matchbooks from all over the world for $6.00. Got a great lucite chandelier approx 20 x 24 inches with 36 faceted round dangles and lots of open areas, hard to explain and too dirty to photograph. When I get it cleaned up it sould be quite a treasure for only $5.00! A jadite mug for 50 cents (not marked) and some Norman Rockwell framed prints for my friend for $2.00. Anyone else get some good stuff?
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niel35
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posted on May 26, 2007 01:28:33 PM
Yeah, I got some great stuff too. Royal Doulton china 8 place settings for 25.00. Texas boots for $5.00. haven't got it all unpacked yet, but more china. No rain here. Sunny and hot. Time for a swim.........
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cherishedclutter
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posted on May 26, 2007 01:59:33 PM
Pretty good. I got 15 pieces of vintage jewelry for $20.00 - including Crown Trifari, Vendome and Sterling silver. Got a $5.00 box lot from a charity sale that included a Noritake platter, a Frankoma planter and several other pieces of china.
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niel35
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posted on May 26, 2007 03:39:18 PM
Wow, Charished - you did well. what pattern on the noritake?
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niel35
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posted on May 26, 2007 03:50:43 PM
pmelcher - I have a large jar of matchbooks. Don't know exactly how to list them. any ideas??
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birgittaw
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posted on May 26, 2007 04:08:02 PM
Never ventured out of my own yard. Found some stuff I forgot I had, and opted to pay myself $2 for everything I put in my box. That should buy me dinner, save on gas and time running around (there are NO yard sales here worth much, unfortunately)
A friend in other state, however, found 50 ivory handled Civil War era dental instruments, two oils on canvas, ca. late 1800s, a stack of OLD blue willow divided plates (one Minton) and a stack of NOS gift boxes. That was all he told me, and there's probably more.
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cherishedclutter
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posted on May 26, 2007 07:03:00 PM
Niel - the platter is blue orchard. It's a "newer" pattern (discontinued in 1977) and doesn't do well on ebay. I'll try to sell it in a b&m mall. As part of a $5.00 box - I don't think I'm going to lose money on it. On the other hand, I won't retire on the proceeds either!
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MAH645
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posted on May 26, 2007 07:30:28 PM
I bought 60 Dragonball Z videos and 7 PS2 Games cheap. I figure I'll make something off of them.
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roadsmith
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posted on May 26, 2007 07:35:08 PM
In the past couple of years I've sold perhaps a thousand older matchbook covers. Older do better; the pinups do the best, then town-specific. Product ones are spotty. WWII do well, as do armed services bases. The ones I sold were collected from about 1930 to 1970 at the latest; the gent traveled all over the world (but foreign matchbooks didn't sell, generally) and, I swear, saved every matchbook after he'd used up the matches. Some buyers want them with matches, others without. They prefer the striker bar still on it; if that's torn off, it's been "bobtailed." I still have maybe a thousand just collected in California, and I'll separate them by town or county and sell them in groups. Many more valuable ones, in the past, I've sold individually and gotten anywhere from $5 to $20. (After a while I got bored with them and grouped big batches that weren't sellable by themselves, and got good money for the bunch. (Photograph them in a clear glass bowl if you decide to do that. It looks impressive.)
Easy to scan or photograph, and be sure to get both sides if there's an interesting message printed inside. (On a couple of this gent's matchbook covers, on the inside were scrawled phone numbers. Hmmm.)
Today I was at a yard sale, didn't look too promising, and I heard a young man in the family ask, "Who's Loretta Young?" We all laughed. Seems he was looking through a couple hundred old Christmas cards from the '50s that someone had received from movie stars. Bob Hope, etc. I got the whole pile for $20 and am hoping there are collectors out there who'll want them.
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niel35
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posted on May 27, 2007 03:55:01 AM
Thanks for all the info on the matchbooks, Adele. Good to know. I have to go through them to see what I have. Never thot of old Xmas cards as collectible. Good luck on them.
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pmelcher
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posted on May 27, 2007 06:17:46 AM
Hi and thank you for matchbook information. I had checked on eBay and after doing that and reading your information I plan to sort them out rather than putting the whole bunch up at once. I like the big jars so they are mine! How great about the Christmas cards, they should do well.
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MAH645
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posted on May 27, 2007 08:12:42 AM
I have a box of old matchbook covers I haven't had time to list that I bought at an Estate sale. Thanks for the info,that was helpful. If I don't get this E-Bay pit cleaned up,I'm going to be lost in it!
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roadsmith
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posted on May 27, 2007 09:25:22 AM
Glad to help with the matchbook covers, and feel free to e-mail me if you have a question as you go through them. They're not HUGE moneymakers, but it's been fun to list them and see who bites.
The huge pipe collection (some of you may remember this) that I sold over a period of 2 years for some realtors who found dozens and dozens of them in a dumpster had finally been sold for some good money.
What I had left from this collector was a small suitcase filled with the matchbook covers. The realtors were hoping I'd be willing to sell them on commission, and I said no way, not for the small amounts I could get (I'd already researched). I offered them $50 for the whole lot and worried that I'd made a big mistake.
As of 6 months ago, when I was really tired of listing them for a while, I'd cleared $863. And I still have a couple thousand to go!
One caveat--the foreign ones, of which I had just a few--do not sell well if at all. And the more recent the matchbook covers are, the less likely they are to sell.
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