blakeyboy

Thank you for this- I'm just off to work in Paris, so I'll read more closely when I'm not eating, drinking, or visiting cheese shops....

From a pre-ww2 stamp album page header. No wonder we lost everything! Children would have read this.

I thought 'Sandstone Bluff' was a card game......or maybe Donald Fagan's second album.....

Ah right- I've always held a plano-convex lens over the front of a cheap camera to take pics of coins etc.... ....I have seen some things like that but I don't know the lens/thread terminology very well. Is the extension tone as it sounds? It fits over the lens rather than on the front?

Yes i know it's old hat and worthless, but I don't have a reasonable camera, and I've just inherited a GF2, with a 14mm lens and a 14-42 lens. I'm hoping, because I think I can turn everything off, that I can do par focal down-the-eypeice shots with a telescope- my crappy auto camera takes pictures of the telescope....:-) I would like to try taking pictures of coins with the GF2, but the only macro lenses I can see seem very expensive- is there a simple screw- in lens available to fit on one of the two lenses I have?

I still think the 1875h is very overvalued- it's not as rare as it's 'mintage' figures suggest, in my book.

I laughed so much at the cheek of it I ignored our 'Ebay's worst offerings' section and put it here! My wife has suggested they change their name to "The Dunning-Kruger Coin Company"....

It's all so moronic and designed for rich gullible twats with more money than sense. The giveaway for me, and a main indication of why I won't take notice of this crap is that in the 1952 penny row it has a 'shop now' button. as if you can find one on Ebay!!! The morons who run this site can't see that this is just really sloppy....

A fiver. Out of that came the postage, and Ebay's fees. We were left with about £1.80. I was expecting £25+. I have the remains of three pre-WW2 albums, and I'm trying to shift them. I put 20 lots on, all at a fiver start, and only two had bids.

Here's a good one: a man goes on Ebay and buys this for too much money: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196131388195?itmmeta=01HR48BF1FAPQE6AYCFSC8SBG0&hash=item2daa577b23:g:u7cAAOSwHsBleY4M&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwIF9z38GnCcBUt2pYBXWQQzTK6PFL6xu57AbQQUyU4674tOlFvY1UQf2AvfpY9Y2UqLf8q%2FVj8%2Bz7v%2FXhv52r2RvM2tch6x1BR7VceC6SVjO%2FYCO1CMptMzYcB8JaSKGZ3dCA%2Ff6hW%2BmG5I7a0B12UZrrkWan%2BKjcI%2FFdGwIt8QoSShO8Fd8IEo5UE3WxDArm%2FYhIhAF3JTEl70XSN7lUsd78Vqqxh7DvTLS7JDQaOW%2BdiDZ29GEAZqTxlXoc8j6tw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-bwrYjBYw He then immediately puts it back on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266701983441?itmmeta=01HR48N96Y7PY4RTWWANTK28DK&hash=item3e18ad4ed1:g:d6oAAOSwuzplkAH0&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwGf8YelEAh0xZP5qjG0TGRIZGrih3Pf%2BUTUU7pRTuaDaPt0GebIUdPL9vsWmvTVRqUPuiZiZsTC331T8IPm5q4fJA3eEEqyi9gQgl2%2BBWtnRIbv%2BdkhSTfVMCgTFO%2FcYi7M6PdC4mQh7bDuytEqDlNJoi4Lo7P4zTkNnwXKaKqaHLqB5XohFGx6g827x%2B%2FG1jIbOW%2FfG1Qp%2FLeHm9J167V78YSaiq3wmPlUJT41Iv4zjQu0%2BMy%2Bv44CHxBkomVwIOQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9iT1YjBYw

I've been trying to sell a pile of stamps I inherited, and the prices on rare stuff are strong, but the average stuff is worth nothing, Are coins going that way, where anything not top quality or very rare will slump in value, since the rich boys aren't interested? Here is an example: A pile of old Australian stamps that I would have been _so_ pleased to have been given when I collected as a child. Low quality pics but it gives you an idea of age - lots of old Victorian States stamps in there too. Have a guess what they fetched:

Rob, you just did this forum section's 100,000th posting....

When my Uncle was very old, we covered him in grease. He went downhill pretty quickly after that.

Neither of those offerings is F148. If purchased, the seller gets the wrath of the buyer when the true value of the coin is known, not the grading company, so this is just laziness on the seller's part, so they deserve all they get. I love the pricing disparity as well!

Am I on drugs? I cannot make any sense of this - have I had a stroke? Harry and Meghan coins?

I showed my wife and she wants a pair!!!! New product for you there....

Whoops- bleeding spelchek - 'coming out of covid'

We've just been let down by our 4th contractor in a row. We need an insulated metal roof and insulated green corrugated walls for our Village Hall in Worcestershire. We've had: Too busy coming out of cover, and not his area. A 6-figure quote, site unseen, hoping we were idiots, Then very keen but heart trouble, into Papworth, then silence, now we've just had the got to start another job, can't wait any more to start ( wheels have ground slowly) Anyone on here have any contacts or ideas? We've lost 3 years so far, and got nowhere - rather annoying, and I want it done before I'm too bloody old!

I’ve ordered the skip for Tuesday. I have the tough rubble sacks. Then, on Wednesday, when I can’t see the front door for Valentine’s cards, I can bag them up, drag them upstairs, and throw the bags out of the bedroom window, straight into the skip. Last year I didn’t think it through, and was stuck in the house for a week. You must know what I’m talking about….:-)

This 1849 would fool me- how can you tell is a wrong 'un?

Any ideas what this refers to? Looks Edwardian in style to me... About 4 inches by 2 1/2 inches. I've drawn a blank....

Interesting drawing- well, maybe interesting to some....

Since the gold used isn't pure, this is surely a eutectic situation, so you are even more correct?

Yes, hurried sloppy mistake. I work with recording studio mixing consoles that are changing hands at £300k plus at the moment, and are full of silver plated brass switch contacts. A $12 can of 'switch cleaner" will do £40k of damage to those contacts. Properly thought through "Switch Lubricant" is another matter.... Try Electrolube EML. It was specced for pro use in the 1970's, and still works, for _minuscule_ layer of protective oil.

I lost count of the times I emailed Torr coins to tell them to stop hanging their coins in photos on Ebay.... Acetone can leave a coin 'too clean', and the atmosphere loves that...the TINIEST amount of a benign oil, olive, EML switch lube, etc etc and I mean the TINIEST bit, keeps things stable. Put a speck on a small clean brush and apply like that - _no_ rubbing!