Thursday, January 21, 2016
As I said in the opening uniforms are especially popular in today's issue. There are several sprinkled in this block along with odd pieces from M1 rifles and helmets getting bids today.
I don't know if its a selling strategy or not but the buy that has the officer tunic listed below has some interesting photos. You might think that the background should be plain jane. But you can clearly see in his photos that he has a lot of other stuff in the background. Maybe He is taking offers on that stuff off eBay?
Well as an eBay seller myself I got my 1099 tax form emailed to me today. As you likely know anyone doing more than $20k in PayPal sales during a calendar year can expect to get one of these. Trust me the IRS is checking too. One year I under-reported by accident and even though it was just a few dollars off they reminded me about it. 🙂
There are some nice German items in this WWI block. The Iron Cross on the left has almost fifty bids and is nudging over $400.
Monday, January 11, 2016
There are some really neat picks in this block. Check out the Disney themed unit patch below. It is up to $500 with 16 bids as I write this issue.
The German picks in this block are the best in that category. One of the neat pieces is the German sword knot. I wouldn't have that it would go over $300 but it's already got 26 bids.
Wow is about all I can say on the auction for rare medal pictured below. It is over $1000 and still going. If you don't like those shiny pieces there are plenty of other
blades and other live auctions for you.
It's easy to preserve a 100 year old medal so you can understand why this block from WWI is chock full of them. However, there are some less pretty listings too such as the doughboy boots.
Monday, January 11, 2016
There are some neat picks in this block. I don't know how many of you would find a place on your wall to hang the General MacArthur painting but you are welcome to ask your spouse.
Many of the German auction picks in this block are familiar to me from having written this collector newsletter for several years now. I don't think there will ever be a week that I don't have one or two or more helmets in this section.
Sometimes you have to love the photography and salesmanship of eBay sellers. Take for example the mannequin pictured below. Don't the glasses just make you look at it again even if its just a distraction.
Vintage pieces from WWI fill this block. One would assume that people in these days likes parades or maybe its just that those decorative uniforms are the ones that were "put up" and have survived for 100 years. I imagine the clothes they wore to fight in have long since turned to rags.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Any issue that has a crypto machine is going to be good. I have never invested in buying some of these pieces to use in lessons but that would be a cool piece of mid-20th century technology to work into a lesson.
German listings populate this 2nd block of the first Hot Finds Newsletter of the year. You will probably recognize some of these bidder favorites.
This block has a mixture of items from many different countries. I don't know how many of you actually purchase items from sellers in other parts of the world but at least eBay makes it possible to do so.
The final block of the newsletter has items from WWI. Some of these are pretty unusual pieces and are getting good bids.