posted on September 4, 2003 05:45:21 PM new
I can just picture the scene. It is training day for the new workers at the thrift store. The teacher holds up a grease pencil and says "Always write the price in large numbers in a very visible place. The flyleaf of a book is an ideal spot."
Well maybe not... but that is the way it seems to me. I know some people have said that the thrift store is not interested in resale but even if you are buying for yourself do you want big black or red smudges on the things you buy?
Was I dreaming that I saw a thread about cleaning various kinds of objects a few weeks ago that mentioned something that could take grease pencil off paper? Looking back several pages I can not find it and there does not seem to be a search function for the message center. I have searched the internet also and found nothing that helps.
**If anyone remembers the thread (if it is not wishful thinking on my part) please direct me to it.
Off subject: (Is it OK to go off subject on my thread?) I was thrilled to watch tomwii and Ralphie's triumph of the plates! Way to go Ralphie!
I don't sell much on eBay so I don't have many tales of sales serendipity. I did put up a Porter's cap badge from a railroad I never heard of that my father found while he was helping a friend clean up a junk shop. I almost fainted when it sold for $385. I asked the buyer why and he said there were two collectors for this obscure little railroad and neither of them had ever seen this piece. When I said I wish I could find another to sell he told me if I did it would sell for the opening price because he now had one and there was only one other person who would want it.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
