An Interesting Ebay Find -- Hand Made 1858 1c For Wall

How does that country song go again..."You see a priceless French painting,
I see a drunk, naked girl..."

So the auction closed at $453. A good price I think. Wonder who the lucky owner is.....

I am convinced that this piece was not done for the money but inconditionnaly for the love of the hobby

OUCH!

HHmmmm...Im thinking it perhpas may be salvagable?
Those pieces were just glued on?
I cant see the outer rim ever being one piece...could be wrong tho.

That hurts..
hate to suggest that perhaps it was not properly packaged..
considering that some sellers use 1 " thick bubble envelopes to send a dented and scratched 1 cent coin:"to protect it". one can not help but think it was not properly packaged.
OR, perhaps the buyer did not want it after he saw it and did not have the gut to be honest about it.....damage would be a way out....hate that thought but... there are people like that.

Hi all... I see there is some talk about my wrecked piece. When the buyer told me about it I freaked! Then a day later she sent pictures and I could have cried! I was truly ticked!

For the record, I will say that this is the 6th one sent through the mail (but different coin designs), and the first one that arrived damaged. It was also the only one I sent insured (thank God!). In all cases I wrap them in bubble wrap, place wood over the side with all the detail, put them in an extra large pizza box, and stuff the corners with bubble wrap. I also had 'fragile' stickers all over it and 'contains stained glass, careful please' written on it. Perhaps that was a mistake!

If anyone knows about carpenters glue, when two pieces of wood are glued together, it is almost impossible to rip them apart. In the case of the rim, it consisted of two semi circles almost half an inch thick and in width, and all the denticles were also glued onto the backboard. To rip this apart and break it into so many individual pieces would take a deliberate attempt at damage. It just could not result from the simple (and even repeated) dropping of the item to the ground.

As it now stands, the buyer still has the item, and I am waiting for claim forms from Canada Post. In the future, I am not sure the best method to ship these, but I am quite put off and depressed with the whole affair!

I agree, this really looks like mallicious (sic) intent.
Further suggestions on packaging?
Pizza box it up the way you already did, then this box needs to be put lying down into the middle of a second well stuffed oversized box, that doesn't allow the pizza box to slide around what so ever. It needs to be stationary and floating in the middle of the 2nd box. I use to ship heavy radio frequency terminals by courier out from my work for repair, and I use to take full or partially full toilet paper rolls and squeeze and stuff them down the sides of the box so the article would stay perfectly stationary.
I know, the price to ship that through Canada Posts proven incompetant parcel post will be tremendous, but at least it would have a better chance of arriving in one piece.
Perhaps take a picture of the packaging in case C.P gets stickey over payment?