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Antique Auction Home Goods
Okay, finally back to getting some deliveries done for auctions. This set of silverware was £20, but the auction house Opus really sucks, so it ended up being a £20 courier delivery because they weren’t competent enough to just hand it to a parcel service. I really wish auction houses that aren’t prepared to deal with anything but DEALERS there for the auction with vans would stop trying to fuck with Saleroom/direct customers? Either you’ll answer emails, ship&pack or you won’t, in which case we have no business with each other. And with THAT said, I want an option not to see listings on Saleroom from bad actors, like Opus and Amersham, whose participation in the platform gets a bit scammy when coupled with their lack of interest in online business. (Or just—boot them? You can’t halfass participation.)
Anyway, flatware came in a lined wood canteen which would have been fine taped for shipping, but Opus left it thus a million years, and now the varnish is a little fucked. Not a big deal, I never planned to use the canteen anyway. It’s still a little over £1 per piece not counting the canteen. I look forward to our flatware matching, and to never having to avoid Stabbums The Bad Fork. Silver plated, but honestly I’m just planning to dishwash it and polish a few times a year, it’s nothing so grand. It was important to me both sides have SOME form of pattern. The unforeseen downside is how BIG the spoons and forks are. How am I supposed to get that in my mouth? Aisha says it’s like a bad porn parody.
This 74cm x 31cm stone trough was £10, plus a £20 courier. I’m going to use it on the non wisteria side of the garden, but am not sure whether to ask someone with a stone cutter to first dispense with the bottom? If it’s a substantial climbing plant, should I do that?
It came with a 214cm 20th century rug that seems hand made? We’re not using rugs at the moment, but I’ll keep this for now, and to offset costs clean&sell the Ikea rug we have kept around from the old house (ebay looks like I could get min £40 for it). This lot was £40, with a £20 courier.
Lastly, I’ll need to do slight wood glue repairs on this, but it’s a Victorian gothic coat stand with a broad base so it can’t tip and a removable drip tray. This will keep the chaise from holding Katy’s coats. Not sure about position: if it’s awkward, I’ll sell it on. This was £50, with a £30 courier, and it will enable us to sell on for about £5 a piece the two coat stands Katy has tried before that kept falling over under the weight of: coats. Bentwood coat stands do not cherish their own lives.
Anyway, flatware came in a lined wood canteen which would have been fine taped for shipping, but Opus left it thus a million years, and now the varnish is a little fucked. Not a big deal, I never planned to use the canteen anyway. It’s still a little over £1 per piece not counting the canteen. I look forward to our flatware matching, and to never having to avoid Stabbums The Bad Fork. Silver plated, but honestly I’m just planning to dishwash it and polish a few times a year, it’s nothing so grand. It was important to me both sides have SOME form of pattern. The unforeseen downside is how BIG the spoons and forks are. How am I supposed to get that in my mouth? Aisha says it’s like a bad porn parody.
This 74cm x 31cm stone trough was £10, plus a £20 courier. I’m going to use it on the non wisteria side of the garden, but am not sure whether to ask someone with a stone cutter to first dispense with the bottom? If it’s a substantial climbing plant, should I do that?
This is the type of pulley operated ceiling hung laundry airer you see a LOT in Scottish flats. It is, however, 2x or 3x longer than anything of the kind I’ve seen? Which is a bit weird, but I guess we can cut it down if need be.
It came with a 214cm 20th century rug that seems hand made? We’re not using rugs at the moment, but I’ll keep this for now, and to offset costs clean&sell the Ikea rug we have kept around from the old house (ebay looks like I could get min £40 for it). This lot was £40, with a £20 courier.
Lastly, I’ll need to do slight wood glue repairs on this, but it’s a Victorian gothic coat stand with a broad base so it can’t tip and a removable drip tray. This will keep the chaise from holding Katy’s coats. Not sure about position: if it’s awkward, I’ll sell it on. This was £50, with a £30 courier, and it will enable us to sell on for about £5 a piece the two coat stands Katy has tried before that kept falling over under the weight of: coats. Bentwood coat stands do not cherish their own lives.
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Um, you were saying?
I used to have a pulley like that in my kitchen in Aberdeen, it was so AMAZINGLY practical!
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Ah, but why guess the contents of the floor to ceiling wrap around bookshelves my mom and I designed, when I have catalogued all 2490 titles and cannot resist an opportunity to make all that fucking work pay: https://ehorakova.libib.com/i/erin-and-katys-library
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I got rid of most of my genre fic because the house was exploding with academic books already, so now Pratchett (except for the first editions my husband bought) & co live nicely calibre-catalogued on my Kobo now.