Now I want to collect watches!

Vintage 1969 Men’s Seiko World Time Automatic Wristwatch

Description

This sale is for a

Pre-Owned Collectible Watch

that we bought at an estate sale.

This fine watch represents the end of an era, by 1969 Seiko had perfected the automatic winding watch mechanism in the 61xx calibre movement.
1969 is also the year that Seiko produced the first quartz watch, from then on the automatic took a backseat with the 1970′s 71xx movement.

For more info you can read this excellent article from Adriano
Ramos Passarelli (the English version is here here does not contain the pictures).

This watch has the classic 6117-6010 movement, it has a date register and a third 24-hour hand calibrated to the main hour hand and an inner bezel.
The inner bezel is for setting the time zone and is turnable when the crown is closed.
At halfway, the crown controls the date register and at full extension it controls the time.

Condition:
Gently Used – Great for 41 years old, normal wear, some marks, see photos.

Black Friday Deals!

How did it get here so fast??

We have been talking for weeks about what kind of sales we would do in the stores and now its here and we have been working so hard on getting things listed that we haven’t gotten ready to put things on sale! ooooPS!

The plan at this point is to get everything on our ebay store on sale from Thursday Thanksgiving evening at 6PM Pacific time to 7 PM Pacific time Friday.

We want to call it our 25 % off for 25 hours sale, not everything 25% off but everything will be on sale for at least 10% off and most things will be 25% off.

Black Friday

25% off for

25 Hours Sale!

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Ablurks-Needful-Things

At Bonanza we were lucky, there is only one way to do a sale there. They call them “Rushes” now.  As a seller you need to join one that they have scheduled, fortunately they have a “Collectibles Rush” going Friday at 3 PM. About a third of the things that we have for sale at Bonanza are collectibles.

So we will be hanging out in our booth from 3pm to 7 Pacific time tomorrow, hope you stop by

Link to our Bonanza Booth

http://www.bonanza.com/booths/Ablurk

and

Link our collectibles section

http://www.bonanza.com/booths/Ablurk?item_sort_options[filter_category_id]=1&item_sort_options[per_page]=48

Calvin & Amelia’s Ewer

Up for auction is a used Water Pitcher that we bought at an estate sale.

This metal pitcher has only one marking that we can find.
On the side was engraved what appears to be a crest from a ‘ Hotel Oakland ‘
The engraving as well as the detail on the handle is extremely worn.
(see photos below)

We could only find information on one ‘Hotel Oakland’

Originally constructed between 1910 and 1912 with funds exceeding $3,000,000, the hotel became a prominent social center during
the next decade. Presidents Wilson, Coolidge, and Hoover were guests at the facility, as were other celebrities,
including Amelia Earhardt, Sarah Bernhardt, Jean Harlow, and Mary Pickford.

During the 1930′s, the hotel was forced into bankruptcy several times as the result of the depression and management difficulties.
In 1943, the U.S. Army took possession of it for use as a hospital. All furnishings were auctioned off, including irreplaceable
chandeliers of which only photographs remain. Following World War II, several unsuccessful attempts were made to
reopen the hotel for public use. The Veterans’ Administration eventually occupied the facility as a hospital until August of 1963.
For the next 15 years it stood vacant. In 1978
a Boston-based developer obtained possession and remodeled it into a housing project for the elderly. It remains in this use today.

Currently, the exterior of the building and all two-story spaces on the main floor are on the National Register of Historic Spaces.
These grand, ornately decorated rooms include the main entrance lounging room; the Corinthian-columned,
5,000-ft2 ballroom; the dining room; and the cafe, which has 30-ft-high oak-paneled walls and a finely detailed plaster ceiling.

Condition:
Used – As seen in the photos
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For Sale: Classic American Pump Pellet Pistol

Like new, I never had time to shoot it, I just bought it last year.

Crosman Classic American Pump Pellet Pistol 1377

Includes manual

ASKING $50.00
(more pictures below)

We aren’t allowed to sell this on ebay or Bonanza.

Use the “Contact Us” button if you’re interested.

American Classic Pump Pistol

Thanks for looking!

We aren’t allowed to sell this on ebay or Bonanza.

Use the “Contact Us” button if you’re interested.

How to build a 3D Christmas Village

We are in the process of getting all of our Christmas village pieces up for sale online. We still haven’t found a fast routine to get stuff listed.

As soon as we get all the pictures taken of the hundred? village parts, we’ll get a better count and get this article written that we have promised.

Please stay tuned… hopefully by next Friday :-}

You can comment and we will let you know when the article is ready.

ebay the slow way?

The biggest thing that we have learned about ebay is that it is time consuming, I thought that we would have a lot more time to write here. From what little I have had time to read on ebay’s forum boards, everybody has the same complaint, about all the time it takes to create listings and maintain them.

We are always looking for ways to speed up the process. We are using the turbo lister program that ebay gives away for free,  sometimes I wonder if we don’t spend more time fighting with it, than we would listing on ebay itself. I do like the fact that all of the listings are storedfor future reference.

Thought I should publish a link,  since ebay’s website is such a pain to navigate, it’s almost like they think the more time they can keep you searching for something the more money they make?

Turbo lister: http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/

Welcome to Ablurk.com

We are planning on using this space to blather about the things that we are learning about selling our extra things online.

Also to tell about new things that we have found at the estate sales that we haunt.

We are learning quite a bit about finding the value of our things online, we will share some tips, and probably some of the stuff we learn.

We can announce when we decide to sell something extra special.

And of course LOTS of links to things that we are trying to place with new owners!