– A quick eye by Goodwill workers in southern New Jersey turned up framed pages from an original 1774 Philadelphia newspaper with an iconic “Unite or Die” snake design on the masthead, the AP reports. The frayed Dec. 28, 1774, edition of the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser boasts three items signed by John Hancock, then president of the Provincial Congress, who pleads for the Colonies to fight back “enemies” trying to divide them. A jumble of small advertisements offer rewards for a lost horse or runaway apprentice, while another insists the poster will no longer pay his “misbehav(ing)” wife’s debts. Bob Snyder of the New York auction house Cohasco says the “rebel” newspaper shows how “everyone was good and mad” at the British just months before the Revolutionary War began.
The masthead design is a variant of the “Join, or Die” political cartoon credited to Benjamin Franklin. Snyder estimates the newspaper’s value at $6,000 to $16,000.
It’s only worth that much? I’d say, it’s priceless!
They had to go that far back to find non-fake news
Seriously ? You believe this political ‘tool’ was named ‘John Hancock’? So that’s why ‘John Lebowitz’ (Jon Stewart) is so valid now!
I recently went to a Goodwill store to look for something specific.
Of course the store smelled like 1917, but what really struck me were the high prices.
They damn sure aren’t giving the shit away.
Seriously! Who the fuck shops there?
I could actually buy NEW stuff at Walmart for the same OR CHEAPER price.
A crap stained, used coffee cup was $2.00. WTF!
When I started into Ebay in 1998 you
could find many treasures to sell on
Ebay at Goodwill and Salvation Army and
many many Ma & Pa junk stores.I made my
living for 4 years on Ebay from estate sales,
yard sales,flea markets and junk stores.Those
days are gone.1 st came Ebay on the cover of Time
magazine.Then came the Hollywood asshole “reality”
shows with those 2 shit bags {that ruined many like me}
Mike & Frank with their fantastic fake made up Hollywood “finds”.Go to an estate sale today in Houston and the ladies that run these charge 35% from the gross sales.Everything has “looked up Ebay prices”.Anybody can now instantly look up the going price for anything on the Idiot box phone.Used to be you had to have the secret knowledge in your head from experience.And yes GOODWILL & Salvation Army have crazy greedy prices for everything.
Went looking for something didn’t find it…
Went to see what the odds were that I’d find a Tea cup of any worth.
Saw a friend that said there were boxes of fine china againt the back wall.
Said I saw it and it was cheap ceramic. Went and looked at another box.
Took a pic, texted it to wife, wife said buy it.. It was her pattern. Got it home and checked on line. We have a china cabinet full of all the service dishes sans 1 demitasse cup and a candle holder…
Got right at $1000.00 of china for $50.00
RADIOATIONMAN/CB/HAM/AM/FM/SSB/VHF, I’ve cooled somewhat on the auctions and ebay sales the past couple years. It’s not that I can’t find anything worth making a profit on, I just became overwhelmed with stuff I have no personal commitment toward. So much, that I’ve lost track of my own stuff.
Yes, the prices can be crazy at times and yes, just about everyone at the auctions has a cell phone with the ebay app. However, in my experience, not every buyer can be everywhere at once. Further the things that grab other buyer’s attention, don’t necessarily grab my attention.
Where we always do real well are the auctions where a lifetime collection is being disposed. There’s just so much of the collection that nobody can comprehend it all. For example, a few years ago we walked into an auction where there was about 20 hay wagons filled with flats of sad irons. There were so many variants, oddities and unknowns that even with 2-3 weeks of nonstop research, you couldn’t value everything. So, we just started buying flats of stuff that looked interesting. It paid off handsomely! There were irons mixed in our haul that we maybe paid $10-$20/flat for that we sold on ebay for upwards of $600-$800. In fact, some of the irons made their way into museums in Europe and Japan.
We will get back into it. Only we will stop just buying stuff for the sake of buying it because it’s cheap and could be moved at a garage sale. That’s where it became overwhelming for me, too much other junk to deal with besides making ebay listings.
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE OLD OAKS !