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Re: Tonight's Auctions

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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We did auction pickups in three New Hampshire cities on Saturday. (Hence, the visit to that Space Force Station in New Boston, and also to a town that calls itself 'the birthplace of Horace Greeley.' Remember Horace? If not, he's the one who said, "Go west, young man!") The items were mostly trivial, many in the "art" and "hobby" categories: (autographed Elton John photos and memorabilia, a concrete frog (yes, really) sitting on an orb, nine blank canvases (would you believe the stupid things sell for $40 apiece at Staples?), a small rock collection, a Sherlock Holmes doll, a small Zipline kit, etc. Many others were in the "tool" category: Two toolchests, an electronics kit, a desktop computer (for one dollar), a heavy-duty 3-hole punch, mobile radio transceivers (on the CB band). Then there's the usual miscellaneous stuff: A 9x13 screenhouse, a cabinet's worth of office supplies, a "Hall Tree" bench for the foyer, an electric blanket.

Tomorrow, Sunday, will be more of the same. We're heading to Adams Massachusetts for a large pickup of small items.

But then we're shutting down for the winter - no more auctions until Spring. The auctions are a lot of fun, but today I noted that we're playing with fire... er... ice. What I mean is that the weather gods have been kind to us, but one of these days our luck will run out. We'll be doing a pickup when a blizzard hits. Or we'll just be unable to go out at all because of an unexpected overnight snowfall. With many of these auction houses, if you don't arrive in the 3 or 4 hours they've designated , you lose your purchases and may even be billed! Not good.

So, with winter clearly here, we're suspending it all until at least March.

It's fine, really. We have a huge number of things to do at the new house: We're still installing cabinet knobs, doorstops, towel racks, toilet paper dispensers, shelf paper. There are things to paint. Much of the barn is a terrible mess. The auctions take a huge amount of our time. It will be good to set them aside until the weather improves.




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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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Re: Tonight's Auctions
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 30 Nov 23 1:26 PM 		Msg. 47890 of 58533

Wednesday's auctions were interesting. There were three of 'em running simultaneously. The first was odd in that there seemed to be very few people present. Consequently, we won almost everything we wanted
with a single bid, often an opening bid of either $1 or $5. Many of the lots closed with no bids whatsoever.

All total, we won 17 of 18 in that auction, being outbid only on "A Pair Of Decorative Iron Candle Sticks," at an average price of $4.94 (plus 15% seller's premium, so $5.68.) We missed out on having an even
lower average with two lots won at $12 apiece ("Collection Of Folk Singers & Rebels: PETE SEEGER WOODY GUTHRIE - ARLO GUTHRIE BOB DYLAN - JOAN BAEZ - 26CDs" and "Vintage Doll - New In
Box - Little Sherlock" since my wife is an avid Sherlock Holmes collector.)

Unfortunately, given the great opportunity, the items at that auction were mostly low end - no gold or sterling merchandise, no ATVs or rototillers, no fossilized fish! There were lots of watches, vintage art and
old books, but none grabbed me. Of this auction's 178 lots, not a single one sold above $25. I've never seen anything like that before. I suspect it's because it's one of the few nearby auctions run out of Massachusetts.


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