[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] That trebuchet sure looks good. I'd suspect it's a refugee from a historical scale display somewhere. I'm not sure...
Or just a fantasy piece? My dad bought something like that in a Pier One, back when they still sold cool stuff. It was just "made to look like"...
I have beads here with similar marks (wore them to church this morning) that look and feel like bakelite, but don't test like it. There are three...
That thing just keeps getting better.
And bobcats are no respecters of maps. I've seen bobcats here in Connecticut in the middle of Winter and in the Summer. It wouldn't surprise me...
Joe actually has a very good idea. Unless you happen to get a thief stoned out of his mind on some substance or other who sees those bugs and...
More like a realist these days. People looking for silver to hoard or scrap aren't going to pay metal weight. They can't. Those after the good...
I'd rather the coins, personally.
Sometimes, but the damaged stuff is generally a waste of time unless it's REALLY old. I wouldn't have bothered with the cap. A jersey from the...
It never was cheap; now it's ridiculous. One more reason I don't sell anything bigger than an 8x10 any more when I sell any at all.
Not NA. They appear to have rhinestones in metal cups on the front.
Rant: I'll have to post pictures of those beads I thought were bakelite. Now I don't know what they are. I tried testing them with both baking...
If you do it again, I'd put a reserve of at least scrap weight on anything that's better than scrap.
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Nice score. I agree - gotta love those sneaky marks!
That's him all right!
Painted by a Member of Parliament??? (innocent face) Not a clue, sorry.
I'd have bought those too; the cheap brass ones don't dent, generally. Even if they were plated sterling they'd still be an OK deal at that...
My skin turned green some time ago, and I have a squad of monkeys who fly and do my bidding. Except at auctions - can't trust a monkey to know...
Sniped me. I've seen the ring done in gold-washed sterling fairly often, but never in gold.
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