blakeyboy

Specsavers selling coins on Ebay now then?

Easy mate- kept me mincers open. Can't wait to get me Germans on it.

This is wonderful. Much better than mine. Hands off- I've gotta havit! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1861-Victorian-Bun-One-Penny-Showing-Very-Good-Details/283646483849?hash=item420aa5dd89:g:KfYAAOSwvchdqGn0

Only on the coins, not in real life, obviously.

What is?

Ahh...right...but maybe any French involvement is a herring rouge, and the 'schwa' is indeed the culprit. It does seem very odd....

Now, the reason you could read the heading is because it's westernised. A bit like what the French did in Vietnam- they made everyone write words in western characters so they could be pronounced by westerners. So-- 'Feng Shui'.....why not "Fung Shuei", as it's bloody pronounced??? Which is the whole point of giving it a western spelling in the first bloody place!!! It makes no sense whatsoever!! Anyone here have a clue as to what's going on there?

Very good.

The guy who invented predictive text died this week. His funfair will be hello on sundry.

I thought it was called 'spelchek'....

My word....how many have you got???

Strange but true - this week, in Milton Keynes, a fireman stuck up a tree was rescued by cats.

I know, i know...the last thing I always wished I could afford to collect was always Victorian Silver. Now I steer well clear.

I'm not sure you can put more than just text on an Ebay Guide...

Greetings! I haven't been here that long, but it's a big part of my time on the web. Join in and read what people have said about your particular coins of fancy. Some people on here know so much about the subject it's scary- don't let that put you off- no-one ever gets talked down to. Some people here can afford amazing coins- don't let that put you off either. If you find something that you think is interesting, chances are it will be appreciated. Blake

Vey good. He left out the magnet slide. But then you have to have the coin in hand...

That's odd- I have a bag of contemporary forgeries that I was going to shift, and I typed 'contemporary forgery' into ebay and loads appeared.....

Yes....this morning I remembered who I was.....

Things that are flavour of the month have done this in many ares for years. If something is liked, and may be an investment, when interest rates are low or even negative, this happens. I went this summer to look at a recording console in Malmö, just a small one about five feet wide, and I asked how much it was up for, and the reply was "250". I asked if that was Kroner, much laughter. £250K..... Was that crazy? Surprising, yes, but it went for that amount, the customer was pleased,the seller was pleased, and went and spent the money on other things. Was this greed? I don't think so.....

I spent a lot of time at the Marshall factory this year. Their old gear collection is amazing- they still have Amplifier no.1.....!!

I've been offered my friends Racal RA17 receiver with the SSB auto module on top. I asked him if it was any good yesterday afternoon, and he connected a piece of wire and hung it over a beam in his garage- a 3 foot aerial indoors... I tuned for 30 seconds and got a guy in Italy talking to someone in Pennsylvania. Both sides of the conversation clear as clear. Amazing piece of kit. Trouble is, it's a 2 foot cube and heavy......built like a tank.

Yep, like some US dealers. There's always someone who will bite.....

Same tricks in the old audio gear business. The most annoying was when a bit of old gear turned, of the make that's my speciality, up that was out of RTE in Ireland, and was just a small add-on unit to other gear. Slowly, after someone had rewired and modified it ineptly, and it had passed through a few hands, it had morphed into a 'desirable piece of rare equipment'. A guy selling it asked if he could bring it to me for appraisal. I had the factory build file on the unit, so I knew damn well what it was originally, and could tell what had been done to it. He turned up, I took the lid off, peered inside, and told him about all the horrible wiring that had been added, and what It would need to be useable and noise-free etc. He went away, stuck it on Ebay as it was, and in the description, said that I had 'looked at it'....... hoping of course, that a prospective buyer would see this as a stamp of approval. Well, I had looked at it, inasmuch as light reflecting off it had gone through my pupils and formed an image on my retinas....! The guy got one of the rudest emails I have ever sent and he changed the listing. Incidentally, but smacking of the initial post, the price, over the months, had gone from an initial couple of hundred to SIX GRAND!!! ( Don't get me started on 'provenance'......mind you, I did give friend of mine, a Who fan, John Entwistle's Ronco Record Cleaner....)

In 1957 some film producer in Oz picked up BBC 1 TV....

I just wondered if any of the Esteemed Members was a radio nut? I'm trying to get a shack together in my workshop.