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I think before TV they probably didn't go back and give people more money when they had a big score.  |
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Good call Thunder on that one, as that heart gets real big after you know you took somebody to the cleaners in front of millions, like on those old fair canvas pieces painted by that elite artist they made like 10 grand on and went back and gave the guy they got them from some money to fix up the old fair grounds....
They bought an old saddle early on for like 50 to 75 bucks, and it brought like 5 grand at an auction and they caught some negative publicity....
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06/06/2011 2:44 pm
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They have also developed a reputation for finding hard to find things, and have been hired by Captain Kirk to decorate his Kentucky derby office in Kan-tuck-eee, and they also did a new episode hunting civil war items for a fellow who started a civil war museum, and they found some great items, like an impossible to find red river southern cavalry sword, and a Springfield carbine seems like.... Or at least the script portrays them to have developed that reputation, lol  .... Edited by Silverhawk74
06/06/2011 2:51 pm
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I bought an Esso glass cube bank with several shiny new coins inside for $10. When I got home I found that the coins were all mint state blazers from the early fifties. A couple of the quarters are beautifully toned around the edges without even a bag mark on them. One of the pennies is a Red 1952D with a die error on the back. The "U" in united is chopped in three pieces and leaning to the right. It isn't a damaged coin because the rest of the coin is at least MS 65.
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06/06/2011 5:34 pm
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I watched that show once. Didn't make it through the whole show. Seemed to me that they should have named it, "Dumb and Dumber in a Pawn Shop".  |
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I think watching any of these "fakeity" shows takes a huge dose of "suspension of disbelief". Can our intrepid adventurer survive, with his only source for medicine 200 miles away? Sure. Jump in your roflcopter and you can be there and back in three hours.
Will OCC be able to get the bike done on time? Ever consider adding a day or three when you make up a schedule? Or spending less time throwing chairs through doors and all the other crap? Or measuring anything before trying to put it together?
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I think watching any of these "fakeity" shows takes a huge dose of "suspension of disbelief". I agree, Fred. I can do that for GOOD sci-fi but not for stupidly done sci-fi or any other type of programming. (insert forehead slap smilie here) Quote:
Ever consider adding a day or three when you make up a schedule? Or spending less time throwing chairs through doors and all the other crap? Or measuring anything before trying to put it together? Well, heck, Fred... doing that would be... uh... like cheating. Yeah, that's it. |
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I had a nice find today at a garage sale, $13 for about 77 grams of sterling silver jewelry.   I wasn't positive it was .925 sterling until I got it home and used a loop to look at it. I guess those beads on the one bracelet are silver  . I'm no expert lol. |
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How can you tell .925 by using a loupe?
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It is stamped on the back .925, or sterling. That fine print is hard for my old eyes without a loop. |
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lol I go to some garage sales because I find treasure hunting really interesting...but I dont really know what I'm doing and I usually just see a bunch of kids toys, dvds and cds...maybe I should try harder huh? lol
My dad has had some cool finds. He got a CIL blasting machine for $50 and it was appraised at $375...and a bunch of records (probably 150 of them) he bought them all for $100. He researched them and he found one record worth over $100. So he took them into a record store and the pile of records were worth $985.00. He did sell them for about $850.00. He has found some old coins but to my knowledge he hasnt had them appraised yet.
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I was at a yard sale one afternoon (after all the "experts" had picked things over), and saw a little jewelry box with a 14k ring, clearly marked on the ring and tag. $2.
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Yeah I went back over there to see if there was anything I missed the first time and I found some sterling silver cuff links marked 25 cents. |
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I got some cufflynx. Not silver, tho. 14k gold, fully working abacuses.
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I was at a yard sale one afternoon (after all the "experts" had picked things over), and saw a little jewelry box with a 14k ring, clearly marked on the ring and tag. $2. Wow! Nice find, Fred. Well done! Guess you don't always need a pan or a sluice box to find real gold! |
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