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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 265617, member: 25&quot;]In the circumstances I think I would have done the usual house clearance thing, cash on the barrel head and haul it away. The 30 to 50 at auction may may be an accurate guess, if so I&#039;d have offered $15000 then and there and invented solutions to the obvious problems of moving and storage as they arose. I might sound lowball to the auction estimate but the labour and transport and storage costs would be rather large. Also the owner may be glad to get it finished with. Since he considered dumping it, a healthy sounding wodge today may be more appealing than a bigger amount in six months, especially as he may need money to fix the place up.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;d want reasonably knowlegeable labour for supervision at least. </p><p>I&#039;d set up a triage station at the house. I&#039;d buy or hire a small marquee type thing if no other reasonably&nbsp; sized space was available, and a whole load of boxes and labels. Stuff comes out into the marquee where it is packed in boxes and labelled so the actual shipping and intermediate storage can be more or less de-skilled. Stuff in uniform sized boxes is easy to calculate shipping and storage for, and travels safer. I&#039;d leave any detailed consideration for your leisure when the great shift has been achieved, heads down and bugger the details till the harvest is gathered in your barn.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish you joy of it and will be glad to comment on any old coins and notes you find.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for ship&#039;s lamps, if they are rough, tough and usually have a maker&#039;s name plate on them, they are probably genuine. Every few years or earlier, decades, the regulations for ships lights change, loosing loads of old lamps on the market. Since the current market is decorative this is what you go by, just how decorative they are. </p><p>Any genuine ones will have some sort of fixing device, a bracket loop for fixed lamps and loops above and below for hoisted lamps</p><p>A quick read of the regulations for ships lights will show the different kinds and uses. Real ones will usually have a plate with the light&#039;s name, Stern, Starboard, Masthead, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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