Tallone
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I hit a couple of yard sales Saturday morning and came away with the following:
I bought this collection of pins for $1.00. The 2003 National Championship pin (bottom left) should bring about $10 - 15. I will keep a few for a collection I’m working on. I don’t think the others are worth much. Some of them aren’t even pins.
I bought this Lux starburst clock for $5.00. The condition isn’t perfect but I plugged it in and the second hand moved smoothly so I assumed it worked fine. When I got it home, I discovered the wheel used to set the time is stuck! Memo to self: Do a better job inspecting things BEFORE you buy!
I bought this receiver/power amp combo because the brand is above average quality and I was assured it had been in use until very recently. This was an older couple that was moving and these were still inside the house so they hadn’t been sitting out in a garage for years. I paid $50 for the combo. I need to do more research but I’m hoping to get at least $300 for them.
Saturday evening, the wife and I drove to a country auction which turned out to be a total bust. After looking around at their stuff for almost an hour, we couldn’t find a single thing we were excited about so we left before the auction even started. Probably burned $30 worth of gas for nothing.
Sunday morning we went to another auction where I think we did a LOT better. Here is the haul from that auction:
I bought a large box with three cases of 35mm slides for $35. Some of these can be fairly valuable but much depends on subject matter and the type of film. Some film doesn’t hold its color well. Over time the image will turn into shades of red or blue. Other types of film (Kodachrome especially) has great color and holds that color for a long time. I bought these boxes because I saw LOTS of Kodachrome slides but also because I saw this:
Note the hand-written name on the top left corner of the box in the center of the pic. I haven’t looked carefully through these yet but I sure hope there are some interesting pics of Jackie Kennedy on Kodachrome slides.
My wife bought this Mickey Mouse sketch for $35. Unfortunately, I don’t think it is worth much more than that.
I have been looking for a rolling rack like this for a while and I will keep it. There were a bunch of them at this auction and most of them sold for $50 or more. This one was LOADED with junk and the auctioneer couldn’t sell any of the individual items off the rack so he put the whole rack with contents up for sale. I got it for $25. I guess other buyers didn’t want to deal with all the junk. I threw almost all of it out but I found the following in the pile of junk:
This is brand new, never been out of the box. I think I can get about $30 for it. If that works out, I got my rack for free!
I paid $25 for a box with a few leather items in it. The prime piece is the Hartmann shoulder bag. I hope to get $50 - $75 for it once I clean it up. I think I can get $25 for the motorcycle vest. The kit bag is a brand I had never heard of before. I have now learned that their leather products sell for top dollar. This piece has a little damage but I needed a better kit bag for myself so I’ll probably keep it. The only one of these I found on eBay was all leather and sold for $100.
I bought this compressor for $50. I needed an upgrade to the tiny one I already have. I haven’t tested this one yet so I hope it works. It looks like it’s in good shape. This model sells new for about $250.
Last, but definitely NOT least is this poster. This was buried in a pile of crappy art work. I paid $5 for it. This is apparently the original marketing poster for Apple’s first PC, the MacIntosh, which debuted in 1984. It is referred to as the “Picasso logo” although apparently Matisse had more to do with this logo than Picasso. The Macintosh "Picasso" Artwork Was Inspired By Matisse | Cult of Mac
I could only find one of these posters on eBay. That one sold for $250. I found one other for sale on a site called missingbite.com. Those guys want $2,500 for it! The glass is dirty and broken in one corner but the poster appears to be in excellent condition. I think this may be my big score for the weekend.
I bought this collection of pins for $1.00. The 2003 National Championship pin (bottom left) should bring about $10 - 15. I will keep a few for a collection I’m working on. I don’t think the others are worth much. Some of them aren’t even pins.
I bought this Lux starburst clock for $5.00. The condition isn’t perfect but I plugged it in and the second hand moved smoothly so I assumed it worked fine. When I got it home, I discovered the wheel used to set the time is stuck! Memo to self: Do a better job inspecting things BEFORE you buy!
I bought this receiver/power amp combo because the brand is above average quality and I was assured it had been in use until very recently. This was an older couple that was moving and these were still inside the house so they hadn’t been sitting out in a garage for years. I paid $50 for the combo. I need to do more research but I’m hoping to get at least $300 for them.
Sidebar: As I was talking to the lady about these units, a man and woman came in to the house and I heard the woman say, “Crap! Somebody is looking at the stereo”. I figured I had better grab them before they did so I gave the seller $50 to seal the deal. I told her I wanted to leave them on the shelf while I looked around the rest of the house and she said OK. I bought the clock described above, came back to the electronics, picked them up and headed for the door.
The lady stopped me and said, “Are you going to take those, too?”
“Yes, I already paid for them.”
“No, you haven’t”.
“Yes, I did.”
Then the lady says, “Look, I have no money in my pockets!”
She was wearing an apron kind of thing with big pockets in front and she pulled everything out and put it on the table.
“See”, she says, “No money.”
I’m thinking, what is this? Some sort of scam? But then I see the corner of a bill poking out from under the stuff she pulled out of her pockets.
I point to that and say, “You have money right there. That will be the two $20 dollar bills and one $10 bill I gave you for the stereo equipment.”
She picks up the bills, fans them out, sees two twenties and a ten, turns bright red in the face, and proceeds to apologize all over the floor. She wasn’t trying to cheat me, she just forgot money had actually changed hands just a few minutes earlier. Short term memory loss sucks!
The lady stopped me and said, “Are you going to take those, too?”
“Yes, I already paid for them.”
“No, you haven’t”.
“Yes, I did.”
Then the lady says, “Look, I have no money in my pockets!”
She was wearing an apron kind of thing with big pockets in front and she pulled everything out and put it on the table.
“See”, she says, “No money.”
I’m thinking, what is this? Some sort of scam? But then I see the corner of a bill poking out from under the stuff she pulled out of her pockets.
I point to that and say, “You have money right there. That will be the two $20 dollar bills and one $10 bill I gave you for the stereo equipment.”
She picks up the bills, fans them out, sees two twenties and a ten, turns bright red in the face, and proceeds to apologize all over the floor. She wasn’t trying to cheat me, she just forgot money had actually changed hands just a few minutes earlier. Short term memory loss sucks!
Saturday evening, the wife and I drove to a country auction which turned out to be a total bust. After looking around at their stuff for almost an hour, we couldn’t find a single thing we were excited about so we left before the auction even started. Probably burned $30 worth of gas for nothing.
Sunday morning we went to another auction where I think we did a LOT better. Here is the haul from that auction:
I bought a large box with three cases of 35mm slides for $35. Some of these can be fairly valuable but much depends on subject matter and the type of film. Some film doesn’t hold its color well. Over time the image will turn into shades of red or blue. Other types of film (Kodachrome especially) has great color and holds that color for a long time. I bought these boxes because I saw LOTS of Kodachrome slides but also because I saw this:
Note the hand-written name on the top left corner of the box in the center of the pic. I haven’t looked carefully through these yet but I sure hope there are some interesting pics of Jackie Kennedy on Kodachrome slides.
My wife bought this Mickey Mouse sketch for $35. Unfortunately, I don’t think it is worth much more than that.
I have been looking for a rolling rack like this for a while and I will keep it. There were a bunch of them at this auction and most of them sold for $50 or more. This one was LOADED with junk and the auctioneer couldn’t sell any of the individual items off the rack so he put the whole rack with contents up for sale. I got it for $25. I guess other buyers didn’t want to deal with all the junk. I threw almost all of it out but I found the following in the pile of junk:
This is brand new, never been out of the box. I think I can get about $30 for it. If that works out, I got my rack for free!
I paid $25 for a box with a few leather items in it. The prime piece is the Hartmann shoulder bag. I hope to get $50 - $75 for it once I clean it up. I think I can get $25 for the motorcycle vest. The kit bag is a brand I had never heard of before. I have now learned that their leather products sell for top dollar. This piece has a little damage but I needed a better kit bag for myself so I’ll probably keep it. The only one of these I found on eBay was all leather and sold for $100.
I bought this compressor for $50. I needed an upgrade to the tiny one I already have. I haven’t tested this one yet so I hope it works. It looks like it’s in good shape. This model sells new for about $250.
Last, but definitely NOT least is this poster. This was buried in a pile of crappy art work. I paid $5 for it. This is apparently the original marketing poster for Apple’s first PC, the MacIntosh, which debuted in 1984. It is referred to as the “Picasso logo” although apparently Matisse had more to do with this logo than Picasso. The Macintosh "Picasso" Artwork Was Inspired By Matisse | Cult of Mac
I could only find one of these posters on eBay. That one sold for $250. I found one other for sale on a site called missingbite.com. Those guys want $2,500 for it! The glass is dirty and broken in one corner but the poster appears to be in excellent condition. I think this may be my big score for the weekend.
