TomGoodheart

OK. I'm now wondering about Frank Purvey(!) Mainly because the ticket in Eaglen has the King's name underlined by a wavy line; an unusual feature. Plus his writing appears to have a slight backward slope. With how the numbers are formed and rather loose letter 'P', it's a ... 'perhaps'! Of course, it may not be anyone significant at all. Though it would be nice to pin it down to a particular hand. For dating purposes, if nothing else.

Thanks! The RCB tickets I've seen are a bright blue, sometimes with a stock number stamped on them in black ink. I'm inclined to think that this is a Seaby ticket and, although it's an RCB coin, written by someone else. The fact that it says "Parliament" rather than Chas suggests to me it was one of a number of related coins, so a stock, rather than an actual collector's ticket makes more sense. Eaglen says that the collector Cuthbert Whitton wrote many of the tickets for the coins that RCB sold on commission through Seaby 1949-. Of course, it might not be Whitton as it could be one of the later (1959) portion of coins bought by Seaby and sold subsequently ... Sadly, it might be impossible to properly track down as most of the Seaby Bulletin coins don't seem to be illustrated and descriptions of just a grade and price aren't conclusive. But I thought I'd try and find out what I could. Everyone here has added to my understanding and so I'm grateful for that!

Thanks very much for trying Rob. I've posted a photo of the coin here: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/3664-coin-aquisition-of-the-week/?p=94222 It's a shame more coins weren't illustrated back then. It would make identifying them rather easier, though I know it wasn't economical. Still, an RCB link is nice, even if I can't pin it down to a particular sale. I might try the vendor ...

Raymond Carlyon-Britton (1893-1960) followed his father's interest in coins. Many were bought by Seaby for subsequent sale. Ideally, the ticket might tie up with a Seaby catalogue. Unfortunately the coins were sold over a number of years and, unlike the British Numismatic journal, nobody has seen fit to scan the catalogues, otherwise a search would be much simpler! Well, it does follow the layout of CA Whitton's tickets for Seaby, although I'm not sure about the size. But that would make it one of the 1949 coins?

Thanks Rob!

Grey (or might once have been dull green) with slightly faded blue ink. 32mm / 1¼ inch diameter. Is the XIV 894 a cabinet number? And RCB A.477 a lot number, or rather stock/listing number? Any help appreciated!

That's the scanner Peck. Here is an example with my newer printer scanner and while it's another coin I think it just lacks something in comparison with the earlier example. I think if you have a scanner that produces acceptable results, great. But I just don't seem to be able to find how to tweak the images to my satisfaction with this one.

I've used both a scanner and camera. All of my earlier attempt were with the scanner, a cheap little thing that came with my pc package. My only complaint is that images are a little .. 'flat' and there's' no way to pick out highlights, beyond rotating the coin so the light hits at a different angle. The 'background in this case is just the inside of the lid of the scanner.. Example here: However our latest printer (an Epson) wasn't as easy to set up and as we have a small point-and-shoot camera I tried that and was happy with the results. I used Paint to draw in the background because I think it looks better. The advantage of a camera are that I can adjust the illumination. I shoot in bright daylight on my kitchen table, supporting the camera, which I set on macro, with nothing more than a coffee mug to avoid too much shake! But it takes quite a lot more time and effort than the scanner. In the end I guess it depends on your resources and what you want the photos for. Mine are really a record for insurance purposes so it's enough that you could tell my coin from another. Of course, it's brilliant that they are good enough to show off acquisitions too! But I wouldn't want to invest much more money or time just for that ...

WooHoo! Returning to the thread and thanks to Rob, I now have Mark Rasmussen list 3! Nos 1 & 4 to complete the set would still be appreciated of course! As would #25, which I seem to remember Penny saying Mark was hoping to get to the printers a while back! Patience has never been one of my virtues!

Well, the laptop arrived. Windows 7 was not the horrible experience I had feared and works acceptably close to Vista. There are a few niggles, mostly for the price. Firstly, the thing came with no word processor/ spreadsheet / office package (!) OK, it has a trial version of Office 2013, but I don't want to buy something on top of what I already paid! Thankfully I have an old disk with Office 2007 but I'm not too impressed that it didn't even have Works. The case is definitely plastic. OK, it's light. And having taken the last one apart a few times, I suspect it's strong enough. But it could have been made to feel a bit more robust. Other than that, it's odd things like there's no physical volume control for the sound system. My old laptop had a little dial. This you just have to use one of the f buttons. The SD card port is smaller. I used to have a card I used for memory expansion, which fitted the old laptop neatly. The new one the card protrudes by nearly 1cm so having it permanently in the slot would risk damaging the card and slot. Annoying. Otherwise it's fine, just the usual nuisance of familiarising yourself to something new. The keyboard layout is slightly different (there's a numeric pad which I didn't use to have) so I find myself catching the wrong keys occasionally. I'm still trying to get it to hibernate (hopefully fixed, one of the network adapters was set so it could wake the laptop from sleep). And I still need to tweak the mousepad settings to exactly how I want. On the plus side.. It works!! The colour and screen resolution are good. And unlike Wifey's pc, when I look a images of coins they are actually round, not oval! You can imagine how irritating that was!!

Yes, you don't really want your laptop on, well, ... your *ahem* lap. Get's a bit too cozy for comfort! I have mine on one of those cooling tray thingies. The fan stopped working a few months after I got it (actually the fan worked, just the blades all snapped off one by one! Cheap Belkin tat), but it still helps ventilation and keeps it cooler than if it were directly on a desk or something.

Yeah, it's annoying. The laptop is barely 5 years old! If it were a part I could source easily (and cheaply!) I'd happily try to fix it. But I'm wary of throwing any more money at it when a new battery, ac/dc adapter and connector didn't resolve it. Still, teh interweb is wonderful and I was able to reassure myself that Win 7 isn't as bad as I'd anticipated. In fact it sounds as if it has pretty much all the features I liked from Vista, but may even be better. What gets me is that a W7 version costs more than the bloody W8! I did price up a Windows 8 loaded version, but when you then add in the cost of buying W7 to replace the OS, it was the same or more than pre-loaded. Plus surely technology should have gotten cheaper in those intervening 5 years? It doesn't seem like it to me! Anyway, I've gone for another Toshiba as they're familiar. I reigned myself in and didn't go for the 6GB. I can always add memory myself. And on balance I got what I wanted, an acceptably fast Core i5 processor, reasonable built in speakers and, from reviews, good resolution and colour display. It took me about a year to tweak the last one to how I wanted it. So now I have another little project to play with! Goodbye Rocxibl, my old friend.

Thanks! That sounds like just what I was thinking of!

Well I used the diagnostic charts, ran through all the options and tests and ended up with it saying i should buy a new system board. Which I take to be what most call a motherboard. Since I couldn't see a new one on ebay and prices seem to be £250+ I've just bought myself a new laptop. Just in case I decided I wanted to do such a crazy thing, anyone know what would happen if I popped the HDD from my current one into the new? Or is it better to get a cradle connector and just link it up? It's just I think I have everything I want saved externally, but .. well, there's likely to be somethig I've forgotten to transfer, isn't there?

Not sure how much is determined by an Internet Service provider or within the email package Rob. But my email (was Hotmail, but it changed itself to Outlook) has the option under 'email settings' and 'Preventing junk email' to change how mail from particular senders is treated. If your wife's address were blocked there it could easily be unblocked. (Blocked senders' mail is just deleted and doesn't even appear in 'Junk'). Might be worth seeing what settings are available to you?

? Spam from Pakistan Rob.

LOL Shows how little I know! There was I thinking it looked like an Ashmore obv! Good find!

Bah. I fitted the new socket, but it still shows no sign of life. Pretty sure I put it all back correctly. Bother.

Interesting. While I would not claim to be an expert, this is certainly not a die obv/rev combination I've ever seen for Stephen before. Do you happen to know who attributed (ID'd) it?

Oh, I say! That's bloody well just not cricket! Typical Johnny Foreigner! Thank God we never won anything because we were better at fighting!

I had a quick search and it looks as if Jersey issued a series of 'shipbuilding' related coins, with different names impressed upon them. So I suspect it was done at the Mint. Though I couldn't find out whether they decided the ships themselves weren't recognisable enough and added the names afterwards, or they were part of the original design.

As Peckris effectively says, it's very difficult to predict how much someone will pay for a 'one off'. You need a number of rarities to sell before you can establish a likely 'market value'. That said, some people collect errors like this and with the backing of the RM letter confirming that it's not been 'created' as a novelty, but is a genuine error it might do OK. How much? Well, the 'undated' 20p was well known and eventually settled to about £40 each although the earlier sales were in some cases much higher. The only way to find out how much someone will pay is .. to sell it I'm afraid. Though I don't think a bit of publicity (such as contacting a local newspaper) would hurt first! Local man Finds Rare Coin! might just be what's needed to raise some interest! Alternatively, you could contact Chris, the owner of this site and see if he's interested? Assuming you're keen to sell?

Yes, I bought a new battery. But normally, even if the battery is not connected, the indicator lights that show when it's on mains power illuminate. They don't at present, suggesting no power is getting to them. I'm hoping it's a connection issue. I'll replace the connection socket as I know the adapter works and hope it shows some signs of life!

Ah, yes. I remember something about that now from when I upgraded the memory chips. I found a video on yuotube that shows how to take the thing apart. Quite simple, although they could have surely made it so you didn't have to undo quite so many little screws and take so much of it apart to get to what is effectively an external port! There's no obvious socket damage, but it's one of the things that came up when I searched for a dead laptop so I'm hoping it's that simple. Of course it might end up like when I replaced the CMOS battery on my wife's Dell pc. We now have two new drive segments, two versions of Windows and neither boots up from switch on, so you have to go through F1 every time. Bloody technology!

My laptop no work. It's a Toshiba Equium A210-1AS. Similar to the Satellite series afaik. Thursday it was fine before I went to work. I put it to hibernate as usual and when I got home ... it was dead as a dunkin donut. Not only does it not power up as it should, it does absolutely nothing. If I plug in the ac/dc adaptor, there are none of the lights that indicate it's on mains power or that the battery is charging. No fan, the DVD port doesn't open, the screen is black. Nothing at all. I tested it by taking it to work where my boss has a similar Toshiba laptop. I plug in her adaptor, which works fine in her laptop and mine still shows no sign of life. But if I use my adaptor in her laptop it says it's connected, so it's not the adaptor. I'm hoping that it's the jack socket and that it's just that the power isn't getting to where it's needed. I was quoted £80 to replace the socket, so I've ordered one off ebay and will do it myself. Somehow £2.95 seemed more attractive than £80 that might not fix the problem. But it it doesn't ... well, I'm no computerist, so that's me out of ideas. Anyone else any suggestions what might have caused the problem and what might fix it? Sure I could buy a new laptop. The files I care about are all saved elsewhere. But I don't like Windows 7 (can you still get that?) so suspect I'd hate W8. I don't like IE9 so can't see 8.1 being appealing. I don't want touchscreen or a tablet. I like Vista. I like IE8. I want my laptop back. Any ideas anyone?