estate sale and flea market finds

[Marty-Graw]

one time i bought a Ambassadeur reel on a rod at the flea market for $10 I tried to sell it to a friend at work for $40 but he said "i have all the reels i need" so i listed it on Ebay and it sold for $202.50 i had no idea what i had.... it was Ambassadeur 5500..... there are 5500c's c3's and all kind of different 5500's but the good ones are 5500's no letters

so i knew what to look for then....... found another one had to give $45 for it...... it sold for $202.52

so keep your eyes open for these....... the Japanese are buying them up and taking them to Japan and selling them for BIG bucks


another time i bought a whole box of old model cars that had been built and stuck in a box and put in the garage ... i could tell they were old but and knew some people collect them so i bought them for $8 sold them on Ebay for $137.50

Marty

[gldhntr]

my favorite is old fountain pens......cheapest sell yet was 47 dollars...most was 387.77 to a saudi arabian prince, out of about 40 pens, most of which were given to me because they were trash the others i paid 1-10 bucks for............gldhntr

[diggummup]

I just got done selling a Shimano chronarch bantam 100 baitcasting reel on ebay for $165.55 it cost $10.00 at a yard sale with a nice rod.I bought it because I liked it and it looked good.I punched the name on eBay and saw they were selling for 120-180 used so I couldn't resist.The Johnny Cash book I just sold cost a quarter at a yard sale,it sold for $26.00.I sold a ceramic hoofprint from a horse that didn't even win the derby(but he did run in it in 1956) for $20.50,I got it for $1.00.I could go on,the moral is there are treasures to be found everywhere,sometimes it just takes a different form.

[gldhntr]

my uncle raced in the 1941 daytona race {on the sand then},,broke a tie rod and ended up finishing 17th,,,,,,maybe i could start selling his right socks, or pictures of his beautiful old mug.....if i did, and they brought over a buck he would not only roll in his grave but probably come back to life.......you are right, treasure can be anything.....................gldhntr