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Moreotherstuff, how much did the jelly bean sell for?

 

I would have bought it..
But I have a morbid curiosity about those kinds of things.

Yall have definitely out weirded me and given me a standard to live up to

 

Maybe dentist bought these fish, because it is exact how his patients look after appointment with him.

 

oil lamp....old..

 

I don't have my pictures or info any more, they're long gone with the hard drive of the now dead computer I had at the time, approx. 2001-2002 time frame.

It was an electrical, ultra violet light, quack medical device, very similar to this one.

via 1st dibs: 1930's Antique Felma Felmor German Violet Wand Quack Machine

 

99¢ (+ shipping)

 

Darn! It didn't look like Jesus or Elvis.
It does look similar to the Shmoo, though.

 

No photos, they went with the last computer, but 5 years ago we bought a large metal case with some type of technical looking machine inside. Got it for $5.00. When we checked it out we found out it was some kind of an earthquake detector. We sold it to someone from M.I.T. for several hundred dollars. Second best was the very old douche bag we sold for over a hundred dollars. Never quite figured out why that particular one went so high.

 

What is it?...

 

I know a few in my neighborhood. Wonder what they may be worth.

 

A gizmo for a g-dammit?

 

English please!

 

A Gizmo is a part, or thing, that someone doesn't know or can't think of its name.
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A g-dammit is my way of skirting the taking of the Lord's name in vain.

 

A medical book from the 1920's on congenital deformities & monsters, profusely illustrated with photographs. I couldn't go any further than a quick glance through before selling it.
Sold it at a Denver antique show to a professional body builder that collected medical paraphernalia.

 

Yipes Stripes!

 

I purchased a box lot for the commercial perfume bottles that were included. When I started going through everything, I determined that someone had cleaned out some old woman's vanity & had basically dumped everything into the box.

At the bottom of the box was a Lady Betty sanitary napkin belt still wrapped around its original cardboard that hung on the hook at the drugstore. It even had its 2 little brass pins still attached.

I initially was going to pitch it but decided to check out an advertising angle.

One week later "Robert" from Spain had paid me $44.00 plus shipping for this item.

This item is actually what started the "Greatest Finds" thread on eBay's PG&P board. Someone decided if I could get that much money for that item, there had to be more crazy money items out there. I have a notebook full of all types of things that were mentioned on that thread & have made money on things I would never had looked at twice just because someone was generous enough to share with others.

Peggy