I sold a few of my last GS finds

[diggummup]

I haven't had any good finds in the last couple weeks because i've been working a job on the weekends. I did however sell a few of the things I found on my last weekend outing that I posted here-
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,432275.0.html

The small hatchet which I paid a dollar for ended up selling for $73.50, no bidding war like the last one that sold for $182.49 on ebay but i'm not complaining.

The next 3 things came from a small lot of items I put together and paid $25.00 for at an estate sale that a family member was holding-

The bottle shaped advertising paperweight marked "The Kearns Gorsuch Bottling Co." sold for $44.50

The set of WMF Fraser's flatware from Germany didn't sell (had a starting bid of $45.99) which is strange because I had 11 people watching it, oh well next time.

However, the Otto Link New York "Tone Master" saxaphone mouth piece sold for a whopping $430.23, it had 31 watchers and 23 bids.

 

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[acevillav]

WOW that's a nice pile of dough !!! Especially for the saxophone mouthpiece. How did you know that the hatchet was a salesman's sample did the label give that away? Keep up the great finds !

Ace Villa-v

 

[diggummup]

WOW that's a nice pile of dough !!! Especially for the saxophone mouthpiece. How did you know that the hatchet was a salesman's sample did the label give that away? Keep up the great finds !

Ace Villa-v

I didn't. I bought it because it was pretty small, like a childs hatchet or something. Never saw one that size, so it interested me, that and it was only $1. Research showed it to be a saleman's sample.

 

[Shambler]

The Sax mouth piece is amazing. Did you have any idea it would go that high?

 

[diggummup]

I knew when I bought it that it was probably worth a couple hundred, for some strange reason i'd heard of the name "Otto Link," for the life of me I don't know how or where I heard it. When I got it home and did a completed listings search, I found an identical one that recently sold for $455, so I was hoping it would get close to that. The guy that bought the last one on ebay, also ended up winning mine. He's spent a few thousand on mouthpieces in the last month or so alone.
I like it when I find items that don't have any recent sales to compare prices with. That makes it a total surprise when it does sell high. That makes it really fun. It's been a while since I found something that unique or rare. The last was a Mego Starsky and Hutch car in the box I guess. Or all those different UFO group newsletters from the 1950's-60's, or all those 1910's-1920's hardcore photos that I pieced out. But it's been close to a year since those.