What Really Sold! Surprising Prices for Vintage & Antiques

We've got our tape, we've got our scissors, we've got a pile of crumpled paper, and we have our bubble wrap. And we have a lot of really cool things to show you that sold. Let's do it right now. So we tripled our money in our recent online sales, but it only counts if you get the merchandise there intact. So in addition to showing you what we sold and showing you things like them that may have sold better for some reason, we're also going to show you a little bit about how we pack and ship and get things there safely on the cheap. This first item is a really unusual celluloid photo album with the ships of the Great White Fleet, which Teddy Roosevelt sent around on a world tour in 1907 to 1908 to show American might and power. And it had photos in it, including the great accordion player and his friend. It went for $89. I have to admit, I thought it might go for more, but it did have a music box that no longer worked. And it's a very specific thing. So had we gotten a military collector or a navy collector to see it, we might have gotten more. But I'm happy that it went to somebody who really loves it and will take good care of it. Now, because this wonderful celluloid album is non-breakable, this box should be big enough to hold it. But the person also bought these cufflinks, so I'm putting them in a bag, and we're going to make a big note on we wrap it in saying, open me, because we want to make sure that this doesn't get lost in the packing. But that way we can send them together, and it won't cost any more than sending the one item would have. We see a lot of beautiful women on the covers of celluloid albums from this time, but we don't see very many that are holding up a book. And because of that, and because the condition is so clean, this one went somewhere south of $135 when I see best offer accepted. Most resellers, they're going to consider 15, maybe 20% off, maybe 10%. I would be very surprised in most cases if a reseller is giving a gigantic discount more than that. So we can figure this one sells somewhere between $110 and $125. I'm a big believer in reuse and recycling, and so unless I have to, I don't buy boxes. There are so many boxes in the world with everybody buying things online now that reusing them is definitely a contributor to environmental health. So that's what we're doing. And this mercury glass vase should fit in this one perfectly with plenty of room to spare because this is fairly fragile. It's double walled, and it has a plug on the bottom, and we have to make sure that stays good. Such a sweet mercury glass vase. It was so nice to find one in really clean condition with really nice enameling that wasn't damaged with the plug in the bottom so that air did not get in and affect the interior and tarnish it. And the reason I say tarnish is because you think, well, mercury doesn't tarnish. Well, these weren't really made out of mercury. They were made using silver nitrate, and that's what they also started using for mirrors around this time because mercury was very, very poisonous and difficult to work with. Even by the Victorian era, they did know mercury was not something that you wanted to touch. They call it mercury glass because it's got the shine, and this one was so super clean. It's a wonderful great pattern. It's a pretty straightforward design, and it sold for $59 on 12 bids. There is one that sold for more, and we'll show you why. Now this mercury glass vase went for double what mine sold for, even though they're pretty similar in size and pretty similar in era, and that has to do with the really detailed painting on it. The enameling is just really involved, very elaborate, and the shape is more elaborate as well. Elaborate was what people wanted because up until the Victorian times, most people did not have the money or the free time to take care of home objects, and so homes were not lavishly decorated. This is when that changed. The toitles, well, they sold for more than anything else I listed this time, and I'm not surprised because Kenton Hills porcelain is just so hard to find. They made maybe 15,000 total pieces over a three-year period, and that was 80 some years ago. There might be 1,500 of them left at this time. It's hard to say. We have to remember that until the 1970s, most people were not collectors. It was a throwaway society. That's out of style. We'll pitch it in the landfill. It's amazing how many things were just thoughtlessly destroyed, and that's part of the reason that there's such an active collective market now. This having the connection to the Rookwood Pottery Company, it's just a great story, and look how cute they are. How could you resist? People apparently couldn't. They went for $276 on 17 bids, and they did go for the most of any Kenton Hills piece on eBay in recent times because they were the most elaborate and the biggest of any of the pieces that have gone in recent times. First time I've ever had any in all of the years I've been doing this, and as I'm fond of saying, no matter where you're selling, if you have the best one, the cheapest one, or the only one, you're probably going to sell it. They are hard to find, and so we want to make sure they get there in one piece. So I got a nice heavy box, and it's got lots of extra room. It originally had frozen meat in it, and so we know that it can hold weight, and that is good because I have noticed that things that are really dense, these are filled so they're solid, and dense things tend to have trouble because sometimes they'll pop the bubble wrap from inside if they throw the box, which they have been known to do. So I'm going to make sure by using this box that it has lots of room to pad very heavily around these so that they are nowhere close to the edge. RS Prescia is just beautiful. It's so well done. The molds are so elaborate compared to other porcelain makers of their time. Flowers are a more typical thing that you see on RS Prescia, and that's part of the reason mine went for $31 on 16 bids, but I was satisfied with that because I got it for an incredibly low price of $7. There are reproductions. They do not have the proper mark that you see here, and so you really won't be fooled, and some people are starting to catch on to that and are catching on to the fact that this stuff is priced really inexpensively. To get something as pretty as this that's 125 years old, what are you getting for $30 in a new china shop that's nicer than this? So I believe that there is a new generation of collectors starting to look for this, and you also have an old generation of RS Prescia collectors who still appreciate the really fine pieces, and if you have something really unusual, they still sell for good money as we're going to show you here. Here is an RS Prescia bowl that sold on an offer for about 10 times what mine sold for. This is the medallions style where they have the different sections with the medallions in it, and you see all of these wonderful women, and then in the center we have Diana the Huntress, and all of the portraits around her. It is just a beautiful piece, and an elaborate piece, and a highly decorated piece, and that is the reason that this piece sold for so much more than my piece. The rarities and the exceptions in RS Prescia still sell for good money, and so when you hear an old-time antique dealer or someone who collected this a long time ago, when a simple floral bowl would have sold for $125 or $150, and they say, well nobody wants that stuff anymore, and it doesn't sell. Well, guess what? It does. It's just that the people who are in the know are looking for the very, very most extreme, beautiful, unusual examples. You know, who can blame them? If you're able to collect something, and you have the opportunity to buy something really unusual in your collecting category, buy the best that you can if it's that you'll keep and love forever. I contacted the jewelry store that originally sold this pocket mirror way back in 1919. They are still in business. They were very surprised to know that this was on eBay because they have a standing listing. They're trying to find things because apparently their great-grandparents who started the firm didn't really save a lot of the stuff that they put out as promotions back then. I don't think they were thinking that it was anything remarkable in 1919, but now people really love these things. So they put bids in on it, but they didn't end up with it because a customer in Florida actually liked it even better than they did. And so it went for $41 on five bids. As well as my pocket mirror did, well, there are some pocket mirrors that are really valuable, and they generally have to do with what they're advertising. And in this case, this is the Cincinnati Bell and Suburban Telephone Company. And it says, have you a telephone? Because the idea this time was by the late teens, most people did have a telephone. And the people who didn't have a telephone, well, it was FOMO, fear of missing out. And that is not a new concept in advertising. If you didn't have a telephone, well, you know, this woman doesn't. Look how much fun she's having because she has a telephone, and you really ought to have one too. And so pocket mirrors like this would be given out as sales stimulators. Old telephone collecting is still very popular, and this is just a really good piece of early antique advertising. And antique advertising is very popular as well. And that is why this one went for almost $750. The Telegraph Key, well, I said I was going to let the market determine what the value of this was because I did not really know the different models. I thought this one was probably a middle-of-the-road one and would sell somewhere between $50 and $75, and it went for $66. And I was happy with that. Of course, the Telegraph revolutionized the world. It was the first method of mass communication beyond newspapers and printed material that we had, and a lot of amazing things happened because of the Telegraph. Now, there was one Telegraph that was by the same company that went for even more, but there's a good reason for it, and I'll show you that now. Here is the Mesco Telegraph Key that went for the most money, and the reason that it went for more than mine is because even though it isn't as complicated, it says Signal Corps U.S. Army. This is from the First World War. There are a lot of people who collect anything to do with the Signal Corps. Early telephones, early Telegraph Keys, anything to do with communication in the field during wartime. And so that's why this one went for double what mine went for. It went for $133.50 on three bids, and it all has to do with the fact that it's the Army issue. Whenever I have a piece that has a lot of parts, thin wires, and other things that could be bent or broken, I always make sure and get a box that's a little bigger so that I can really wrap it. You don't want to wrap it really tight because you don't want to push on the mechanics of this, so we're going to wrap it somewhat loosely in bubble wrap and just make sure it has a really good padding in this box. I'm always so pleased when one of our members ends up with a piece, and this went to the Level 3 member. They got to see this first because the members who help support this video and the deep dives and the extra stuff that we do, they do get first crack at these things. And this went for $31. They were able to get their bid in early, and sometimes that's a good strategy. If you put in an early bid, sometimes it scares other people from bidding, and you're more likely to get the piece. And so they did that, and they got a very nice piece of New York Central Railroad China, and it went for more than any other of the DeWitt and Clinton pieces did individually at this time because usually what you see are cups and saucers and small plates and minor pieces. You don't see a lot of serving pieces, so this one did do better than the other pieces that were on eBay from this pattern at the time. Railroad China still sells. It's still a great thing to buy and sell and a great thing to use. Pretty much all of it is oven proof. It's very hard to break. It's great if you have kids. It usually doesn't have a gold or silver rim, so you don't have to worry about how you use it. So it's actually a practical thing if you like using your old stuff. This clamshell box just happens to be the perfect size with enough padding. I mean, this is a thick heavy thing, so it's not likely to break as long as we give it, again, you want to give about two inches of padding around all sides of an object. Don't put something in a box that barely fits in and expect it to not get broken because I had a friend who worked for UPS and he said, literally, we take the box from the edge of the truck and throw it to the guy in the back of the truck. We are relying on you packing it well enough for us to do that. So bear that in mind when you're shipping things. Now, when you list things on eBay at a 10-day auction, you do take the chance. Will they be seen? Will the right people see them? It really went for a very inexpensive price, I think. This was one of these things, and they were very smart. They waited until about the last minute and then put in a bid, and it only got a few bits, and they got it at the last minute for a very good deal. Honestly, I thought this piece might sell for as much as double that, and one did. We'll see what the difference is here in a moment, and I think part of the difference is the way I took the pictures. But this is a really cool bank. The other thing I got a question about that I thought was very interesting and hadn't really taken into account was that people didn't know how it would be opened if they wanted to use it. Well, see that little tab on the bottom there? That little circle is the thing that you unscrew, and it takes the bottom off entirely, and that's your trap. My little guy was in really good condition and more shaped and more formed than they typically are. But there is something about the way I took this picture that I think was lacking, and we'll show you the one that sold for more, and I think you'll see the lesson that I learned and might be helpful to you if you list online, and also might be helpful to you if you're buying online and looking to find a better deal. Here's the version of the Excelsior Bank that went for the most money during the time I listed mine on eBay, and it went for about $60 more than mine on 11 bids. If you look at the way they took the picture, I think I see why. First of all, they have a very nice background where it shades from light to dark. If you want to achieve that in your home photography, what you do is you can do it with a roll of paper that you have up high and pull down. You can do it with a piece of fabric, but what you need to do is you need to have it attached to a wall or a surface behind and then bow out, and then you put the item on, and that gives the shadow gradation without a harsh line, and that also bounces the light better. I know all of this. I'm not really set up to do that where I'm filming currently, and so because of that I realized that my photos could be better. This is a very good photo. I think the idea of the coins around it, it just has this feel of like, wow, this is fun. You've got to remember that people are looking at little tiny thumbnails on their computer, and they're bouncing through, and something with good contrast is going to catch their attention. So the picture says a thousand words, and I think this one said, buy me and pay more. Now this is cast iron, so it's heavy. You want to make sure you wrap it well, especially because it has this mechanical top. Somebody got a really good deal on this, and a regular viewer ended up with this piece, and they got it for a song. So if you're not a member, you should seriously consider it, because level two and level three members get first dibs on these things. They get to see these items when they first list, and sometimes my stuff goes for really good prices. I made a little bit of money on this, but someone got a really killer deal on it, and that someone could be you next time. The Star Wars comic went for $15.50 on a rather high number of bids, and I was very pleased with that, because when you have a reading copy that hasn't been graded and put in a special bag and sealed, you usually don't see high prices on them, because people are concerned about condition. They figure if it's really good, you would have sent it off to have graded. This one was in very nice condition. It wasn't quite good enough for grading, because this is what they call a silver era comic. The golden era of comics ended before the 1970s, and the silver era, they produced more of them. And so there's more examples out there, and so people are more rigorous about the condition, and condition really matters with comic collectors, just like it does with coin collectors, and really with most collectors. And so this one was in nice shape for a reading copy. It went for $15.50, and that was more than any of the other ones that were not professionally graded. But it does make a difference if you're willing to do those things. Here is what happens if you have something in comics that is really high grade. You send it off to one of the graders, just like they do with coins. This is a 9.6 on a 10 point scale. That means it's barely been touched. It was printed perfectly. There's nothing off center. There's no crinkles or wrinkles. This is one of the cleanest copies you're ever going to see. The upside is that it sold for $200, because it is such a fine copy of this. The downside is, if you want something fun to read, and you want to relive your childhood, this has to stay in the package. No one's ever going to look at this again, because it's sealed away. So you really have to I'm a coin collector. I bought the 1909 SBDB, the most expensive Lincoln penny, to finish my collection. It was a childhood dream, and I finally got it. I got it in a slab. I had my coin book from childhood, and because I don't collect super high uncirculated examples of those, I wasn't that concerned about it being something where people could touch it. All of a sudden, I have this coin in a slab. I couldn't finish my book, and there was something in my head that just couldn't accept that. So I ended up selling it and buying one in poorer condition, so that I could stick it in my book and look at a completed book. So, you know, it just depends on what floats your boat as a collector. If you're collecting things because you want to enjoy them to look, but you don't want anyone to touch, which a lot of comic and paper collectors are like that, and coin collectors, then great. Buy them in a slab. If you bought it because you wanted to relive childhood nostalgia and look through and remember those ads, get a reading copy and don't worry about it. Now, this Starworks comic is in good condition. You can put it in a bubble mailer, but you've got to make sure that it's not going to get bent. So not only do I write do not bend in huge black letters with a magic marker, but I also make sure that I reinforce it with cardboard. So we're going to take this flattened box, put it in, fold it over, tape the edges over, and that way we will know that they're not able to bend this piece. Because just saying do not bend does not always work. I was so pleased how well received this deck of cards were, because they were in such good condition. Look how crisp and clean they were. The case was in good shape. The gilding is nice. There's no stains, no tears. They don't look like they were played with much. They went for $48 on a pretty good number. When I see double digit bids on these sorts of things, I figure that's a pretty good number, especially in a 10-day auction. And I can see why, because look at the beautiful renderings of these paintings. I'm sure they were done as engravings and then turned into prints for the cards. Some of the masterworks of the world are on there. And this did sell for more than any of these games sold for during that time, because again, like I say, have the best one, have the cheapest one, have the only one. And this one was the best one available at the time. One size box that's a little bit hard to find are small boxes that can fit things like decks of cards and little pieces of jewelry. I do end up having to buy those sometimes. I think this, because it's a good solid box full of cards, full to the top, no wiggle room, should be able to be wrapped a few times in a used envelope and sent that way. Now in this case, we had the only ones of these available, and the NBC Peacock couplings went for $26. I think that was a very fair price. I think it was a nice find for the collector who got them. They actually sold to the same person who bought the celluloid album, so we were able to ship them together. And because they weighed less than an ounce, it didn't change the shipping price. And we're always willing to combine shipping if we can. We did have someone who bought the Iron Bank and the Star Wars comic as well, and we couldn't ship those together because they were not compatible to be together, and it would have actually made it more expensive to try to get a box big enough for them both because the comic had to be protected. So we do what we can on that. These were just so neat because they're the Laramie Peacock with all of the colors, and these were only done up until the mid-70s, and they're just not something you're going to see very often. Couplings are not huge sellers usually, but these, yeah, they went well because they were the right thing at the right time. I identified this as Cabbage Rose. I think I was wrong. I think that's a lark sperm now that I'm looking at it. The customer wasn't concerned, but it's a different pattern, and I noticed that the price range on the things listed as Cabbage Rose, someone else made the same mistake I did, and I noticed the price ranges really were quite large. I got $26, which was a little more than the next person who sold this pattern got for theirs, but there was another one that really was Cabbage Rose that sold for considerably more, and I think that makes sense because it was identified correctly. This is a very pretty piece though, and it went to someone with a Chinese name here near the border of Canada. I understand that a lot of people living in Canada actually have post office boxes in this country if they're near enough to the border because it's worth it to them to travel across the border and bring the item over and save on the shipping and customs that way, and the reason I mention that is because there is a misperception out there that anglophiles and old dowagers are the only people who collect cups and saucers, and that is just not true. There are a lot of people who grew up in societies in Asia that were originally dominated by the English, like Hong Kong, like India, where they have a taste for English wares because they have a history with them, and so we have to look beyond our own borders when we're thinking about who the customers for some of these things are, and I think it's wonderful that other people in other parts of the world appreciate these things the same way that we do here in the United States and England. Now, this Paragon cup and saucer looks very similar to the one that I have, but this one is definitely a rose, and the rose makes a big difference in the value in this case. $145 this went for. It is a beautiful piece, and some Paragon cups and saucers, especially with the early warrant marks, can go for big money. One went for $350. It's a very heavily gilded one, so cups and saucers are not all the same. It definitely pays to look into these. I think a lot of people have this notion that they're cute things they put in tea shops and they're worth $10 a set, and that may be true for 90% of them, but then there's the exceptions, and the exceptions are definitely worth looking for. Now, it's always deceiving when you see something that's two pieces. You think, well, this cup and saucer isn't very big, but you've got to wrap this part separately. It's got a handle. This actually, dimensionally, should be about two inches bigger all the way around, and then we have this piece, and so that's why we have this size box, because with the extra padding, they should get there safely. I was very pleased that the US-owned Germany cigarette case, which I called a card case for reasons I'll explain, went for $37. I thought that was a fair price given the condition. You can tell it has some wear on the high points. These typically do if they were used, and a lot of the ones sent back from the war were used, because a lot of them were sent, as in the case of this one, to a family member. This is two bombs from Joe. G.I. Joe sent it to his mom, and so, of course, mom carried it around with her and showed it off because, oh, look where my son is helping defend freedom by helping rebuild Germany and getting rid of all of the vestiges of the Nazi regime and all of that. So, this was important to the carrier, and so most of these are in use condition. I thought this one was really interesting because it has the globe, it has the map, it has a map of the US on the back, and it has that wonderful turned interior that you see in the fourth picture there. The turn metal was very popular to use on the dashboards of cars and things like that in the late 40s and early 50s, so it really is a neat piece. I'll write thank you on my business card and include it with this card case. Notice we press that rather than click it to keep it good for longer. We're going to put that in a bubbled envelope and roll it over about four times because this is hollow inside, we want to make sure it doesn't get dented. There was only one that sold for a little bit more because it has a gold tone and because it has a very detailed map of just the US zone, so I think it was visually maybe a little more exciting. It does have a lot of wear on the high points like mine did though, and it didn't sell for a whole lot more, and that really reinforced to me that what we got for the one that we sold was the right price. This one went for $55. This made me really happy too because this went to a regular viewer of ours, and she was so pleased, not because it was coin silver as you see marked there, but because it said Sisters Forever, and her sister broke her letter opener, and here this came with a lovely inscription to a sister, and she said, I've got to have that, and she did get it, and it was a bit of competition. It went for $59 on 19 bids. It's about $40 worth of silver, so that tells us there was about a 50% premium for it being the object that it is, and I think that's just wonderful because it's a lovely object, and such delicacy, the way the handle is formed with the flower, it's just a very very pretty piece, and it went to the person it was supposed to go to, or I should say it will go to the person it was supposed to go to as a gift from the person who bought it. Pip Emma is such a cute girl, and I've seen them sell as high as $35. None had sold for a while, so I wasn't sure what to expect on this. Mine went for $25.07 on six bids, but I was definitely satisfied with that. I just think the Hagen-Renikard pedigree line really are so cute, and this is a little larger than the typical Hagen-Renikard piece, and actually it sold for more than any of the other pieces like her during the time that we put her online, and you notice the label said 1953 on it because this is one of their earlier pieces. Hagen-Renikard, I guess, has been moved to Tennessee and is still producing in small amounts. Little things need little boxes, and if you ship on Pirate Ship, they have to be at least six inches by three inches by one inch. This one, which, interestingly enough, had stuff for the dog in it. Well, Bo got his treats, and this little girl is going as a treat for the new owner. We have a label on here. The label's a little bit loose, so we're going to make sure that we wrap it going in the direction that the label is loose so that it doesn't get caught when they open it. Coins are guaranteed sellers. I said I'm going to put this out at $9.99 no reserve and just see where it goes, and because the market is so active for coins, more active than for any other category of collecting on earth, it went right to the value it should have. I graded it as a fine. My friend who helps me with eBay, who is a coin expert and is actually looking to become a coin appraiser in his retirement because he's really very good at it. He's very wary of overgrading a coin, and I am too, and so I called it fine condition. He looked at this and said, really, if you look at the wings and all the detail and that you can see some of the detail on the chest of the eagle, this really was a very fine coin. But I listed it as fine, and he said, I'll bet it'll sell close to a very fine price when the people look at it, and it did. It sold for $162.50 on 20 bids. It's hard to find Carson City dollars, and this is in very nice condition and presents very well. Now, condition does matter a lot in terms of value. I think you'll be shocked when you see what the most valuable one of these sold for at the same time that I sold this one. And here is the 1878 Carson City silver dollar that sold for the most. When I say condition matters, condition really matters. This one is in a slab. It was professionally graded, and if you see MS66. MS means mint state, also known as uncirculated. It means this never was touched by human hands. It was put in a bag with a bunch of other silver dollars straight out of the mint, sent to a bank, sat in their safe for years, probably as part of their capital account, because banks have to keep a certain amount of capital on hand, and years later it's discovered and it ends up in a collection. And somebody saw that this was so nice, because there's different grades of uncirculated. 60, 61, 62, 63. They're nice. They might have a mark from being scratched in the bag by another piece. The luster might be a little bit more tarnished or not as brilliant in some way. This one is about as good as they get, and look what a difference in price it makes. This went for over $5,000. The same coin I sold for $162.50 went for $5,000. So when I say condition is important, yes it makes a huge difference with coins, but it really does make a difference to most collectors of most things. If you're looking at something that's truly antique, that's primitive, is shabby, and that's the appeal, then condition doesn't matter so much. But when you're looking at something that they made a lot of, and they made two million of these, which isn't a ton by coin standards, but it's still plenty to have a range of conditions available today, it matters a whole lot. And you can see that in this piece. Coin we will wrap and make sure it's well protected. We are going to insure it because it's sold for over $100. We have a very small box to put it in, and then we're going to put this box in an envelope, and that way we'll be sure that it gets there and not fall out of the envelope. That is something that can happen with coins and metals and small items, because boxes and envelopes have cracks. This was the first item from this listing that sold, and it went for $10 on one bid, and that's about the going rate for these. I just thought it was really cute, so we did it as a buy it now, and one of our level three members, she got it first thing. And it was just a great fun nostalgia piece for her. She has a home office, and so she gets to have it by her desk and look at it and enjoy it every day. I remember when all the kids in school had these. I also remember that Snoopy got snapped off the top and broken, and a lot of these got thrown away. They were just an inexpensive thing made in Hong Kong, and I think you could get them at the Hallmark store, because all the Penny's characters were sold at Hallmark in the 1970s. I was just happy that he went to a good home, and he sold for as much as these sell for. Pretty much all of the ones you see sell online sell for this price. The Boy Scout Sash did well. I had fun angling it for the picture. I thought it would be more eye-catching. It turned out I didn't really need to try so hard, because it sold for the buy-it-now price right away, first bid. And it was pretty well priced. I think I could have pushed the price a little bit more, but, you know, I bought it right. And sometimes when I get a good deal on something, I am happy to just send it along to its new home. And it went to somebody who really loves Boy Scout collectibles and saw that it had the late 1940s era patches and was that color from that era. There's several different generations of patches, and you can tell by the color of the background and the margin and how big the circle is around them. The more patches, the better, of course. This one also had some pins and some more pins having to do with various designations of rank. And then this interesting CSS strip along the bottom. I have to say I never could figure out what that meant. If someone out there knows, leave a comment. I would be curious to know. It may be that that's why it sold so fast. There are serious collectors for these, and let's show you what the most valuable one that sold recently went for. Look at the price that this sash got. $3,500 nearly. It's amazing to me. But when you look at all the different merit badges, and there are some that they no longer give. There are certain disciplines that have changed. The logos have changed. The styles of the patches have changed. This person was a very ambitious scout, and because of that, this went for big money. And that just goes to show you that it is definitely worth looking at old scouting collectibles. This person was obviously much more ambitious than I was as a scout. I got a handful of merit badges, and that included a couple for going on 50 mile hikes. But nothing like this. This person definitely lived and breathed it, and loved it, and learned a lot. And somebody else is having a lot of fun reviewing all the stuff that this person did as a kid. I got $35 on a Buy It Now for the Lazarus mug. I did see one that had sold on offer for considerably more back in May. I picked the price I did because I saw other ones that had sold in this price range. The one that sold in May had been around for a long time, had been marked down several times, and then they took an offer. And I thought, you know, I want this to go to a collector now. I knew what I had into it. I knew what I could take for it, and I was satisfied and happy with this amount. So when you're pricing, you know, a quick turn means you get to reinvest the money. Holding on to stuff means you might get more money in the long run. You have to decide if a piece is special enough for you to do that. If you have storage, I'm in a position where I hope to be able to be traveling again in the next few months. So I'm not listing things to leave on for months and months because I won't be able to carry them with me if someone buys them to have shipped. There are more than one reason that resellers sell things a certain way, and for me the auctions have been working very well. And I was very happy with how things turned out this month. Well, we got it done. There's the pile. Now labels and off to the post office. We tore off all of the old labels so they won't get sent to the wrong place or flagged for being perishable. And so we're in good shape, and hopefully this all ends up there in good shape too. 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