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safeinOhio

(34,322 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:28 PM Aug 2019

It has worked many times for me, but never this good.

I always ask at garage sales, got any old musical instruments laying around that you don't play anymore?

Bought a Gibson SG for a hundred bucks.

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It has worked many times for me, but never this good. (Original Post) safeinOhio Aug 2019 OP
wonderful! Post a picture? dawg day Aug 2019 #1
Needs strings right now. safeinOhio Aug 2019 #2
NICE!! Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #3
What subject post cards? safeinOhio Aug 2019 #4
are your cabinet cards from any particular geographical area? Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #6
Mostly safeinOhio Aug 2019 #8
and are you wanting to sell them? Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #9
I have a large collection of4x5 safeinOhio Aug 2019 #10
Amazing things appear at garage sales, and at good prices The Genealogist Aug 2019 #5
I'm going to my favorite church rummage sale in a couple of weeks. Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #7
Wow - congrats. I'm in flogging mode. I hit the mother lode of yard sales Vinca Aug 2019 #11

safeinOhio

(34,322 posts)
2. Needs strings right now.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:39 PM
Aug 2019

Looks to be intact. Can't go wrong.
I've found a lot of instruments asking that question.

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)
6. are your cabinet cards from any particular geographical area?
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 04:30 PM
Aug 2019

And are the subjects identified?

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)
9. and are you wanting to sell them?
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 06:12 PM
Aug 2019

There are Facebook groups where people try to re-connect named photos with descendants. But once you put the image online, it becomes free to anyone, of course.

safeinOhio

(34,322 posts)
10. I have a large collection of4x5
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 06:27 PM
Aug 2019

Glass negatives. 1905 to about 1915. I need to get my computer friend help with a Photoshop program to reverse the image for me. Some very cool subjects. Most likely never published, some might have a few value.

The Genealogist

(4,737 posts)
5. Amazing things appear at garage sales, and at good prices
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 04:22 PM
Aug 2019

$3 for a whole box of 45s? Okay, but will you take $2.50? Why sure! SOLD!

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)
7. I'm going to my favorite church rummage sale in a couple of weeks.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 04:32 PM
Aug 2019

Oh my lordy. I clean up there every year. Old majolica, fifty cents. Sold on eBay for $75.

Vinca

(51,235 posts)
11. Wow - congrats. I'm in flogging mode. I hit the mother lode of yard sales
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 06:23 AM
Aug 2019

on Saturday with so much good stuff I didn't know what to grab first. There was a huge blown glass vase that caught my eye because I thought I recognized the style as a particularly good glass blower. I searched for a signature and couldn't find one and since I have trouble selling unsigned glass I put it down. A little while later I decided to take a chance on it anyway and went back just in time to see a lady pick it up to buy. I also spotted the signature on the side. I waited and hoped she would put it down, but no such luck. She paid $5 for it. $5. The thing could be worth thousands. Flog, flog, flog. If I had know it would go so cheaply I would have picked it up the second I saw it. Oh, well. Got lots of good stuff, but that vase is going to haunt me for awhile.

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