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<p>[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 237783, member: 4654"]I do have 2 but all my boxes and antiques have been acquired by hard work not by spending lots of money..... I'll explain.... I take about 12 hrs a week looking through ebay (10'000's of lots) maybe out of those lots I find 1-20 that potentially might go for a song (poorly listed, bad photos, low starting bid, ending at an unsociable hour, rare obscure items, wrong category, even a high start price but would be a low end price) mainly all of them are in auction but sometimes I see a bargain in buy it now. Then I put them in my "watch list" 9 times out of 10 they will go for what they should but rarely, (after researching what a good price would be) they go for half or much less than they should, then I bid at the last second. Just one example, I found some pieces of ivory listed in tools, they just said "Vintage Bone Odd Shaped Pieces Chinese Game I Don't Know" after doing some research I find out that they are 1820-40 Canton ivory burr puzzles, I won the auction with postage for £12, I have been offered more than 20x that for just one of them and I got 2 with another just missing one piece as well as a cube puzzle missing the box. The above apothecary boxes, the one in the main listing had very bad photos, I paid £109 with postage and then sold a unrelated bottle from inside the box for £85 so the apothecary box cost me £24. Yes it's lots of work but I now have a house full of lovely antiques that I could have never afforded had I not put the work in. Below was the ebay photo, the link shows what they should look like when assembled. ....<a href="http://chinesepuzzles.org/puzzles-for-export/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://chinesepuzzles.org/puzzles-for-export/" rel="nofollow">http://chinesepuzzles.org/puzzles-for-export/</a>[ATTACH=full]72290[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 237783, member: 4654"]I do have 2 but all my boxes and antiques have been acquired by hard work not by spending lots of money..... I'll explain.... I take about 12 hrs a week looking through ebay (10'000's of lots) maybe out of those lots I find 1-20 that potentially might go for a song (poorly listed, bad photos, low starting bid, ending at an unsociable hour, rare obscure items, wrong category, even a high start price but would be a low end price) mainly all of them are in auction but sometimes I see a bargain in buy it now. Then I put them in my "watch list" 9 times out of 10 they will go for what they should but rarely, (after researching what a good price would be) they go for half or much less than they should, then I bid at the last second. Just one example, I found some pieces of ivory listed in tools, they just said "Vintage Bone Odd Shaped Pieces Chinese Game I Don't Know" after doing some research I find out that they are 1820-40 Canton ivory burr puzzles, I won the auction with postage for £12, I have been offered more than 20x that for just one of them and I got 2 with another just missing one piece as well as a cube puzzle missing the box. The above apothecary boxes, the one in the main listing had very bad photos, I paid £109 with postage and then sold a unrelated bottle from inside the box for £85 so the apothecary box cost me £24. Yes it's lots of work but I now have a house full of lovely antiques that I could have never afforded had I not put the work in. Below was the ebay photo, the link shows what they should look like when assembled. ....[URL]http://chinesepuzzles.org/puzzles-for-export/[/URL][ATTACH=full]72290[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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