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I don’t know what I was thinking last night when I entered a max bid of fifty bucks. One of the guys that bid on it is a serious Bluegrass collector and seller, so I know the hammer is something special. Why I don’t know. But I saw that he had bid on it and I hit fifty out of instinct. Now I’m not so sure I want to put fifty into another hammer. So whoever finds this you have an hour and thirty four minutes to get a fine collectors piece for fifty dollars and twenty five cents.
PLEASE!
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OK, I'll bid $49.50....
Maybe you could try to get some further interest by posting a thread in the Reader Classified section.
Good luck,
Shoe
If I win it I might.
now that wasn't very nice - - how about we go halfsies - you take the head while I grab the handle...
naw...
we could bandsaw it longitudinally, that way you could glue your half to the wall and it'd look complete - -
look at it this way - that's enough money to take DW out for an evening - whaddu get for that? - - this way you got a hammer!
SWEET MOTHER OF GOD! PA LEASE! 36:18 to go.
36 min 48 sec - - hmmm....
ya know ya got 36 min and 38 seconds before that last second bidder jumps in....
he's sitting at the comp right now - got his bid to the 'submit' stage - got the auction on another screen where he can refresh it every so often - - he's thinkin' "that's a lot for that hammer...do I really want to bid $49.99 on it?...."
...or maybe not? - maybe there's no one - yer serious collector bud Davidmas is feelin' relief...."gawd, I got out from under that one..."
be sending out vibrations, bro...
I suspect Gunner's selling the hammer....just trying to drive the price up to save face with DW.
So you have ridden my emotional roller coaster before?
I'm the guy with the last second bid...
but I can stop anytime...
...I reach my credit card limit.
"there's enough for everyone"
Turns out you weren't even close. All that worrying for nothin. That's a lot of money for an old hammer though. Glad I'm not into collectable stuff like that.$256.00 is a lot of dough fo that hammer.
Edited 3/23/2005 9:25 pm ET by Tom
Somebodies sleeping in the doghouse tonight and it aint me brother.
glad I could help - feel better now?
Thanks. Now I got to go to church and help old ladies across the street.
The power of Breaktime is limitless.
Gunner-
Somehow this whole thing is deserving of a roar.
'Course if you'd got it for fifty you could have run it thru again yourself and made some green. but...
be sighing relief.
I'd say 50 is a little steep for nookie.Free speech leads to a free society.
at least from a wife....
your wife is not reading over shoulder tonight is she?
Paul
Wait till you haven't had any for several years. You might change your mind...
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow It is easy to be friends with someone you always agree with.
Panic attack is more like it.
It does make me curious to know why that hammer was such a hot deal. Bluegrasses rarley go over fifty any other time.
E-bay is the Devil's playground.
Think old arcbee woke up this morning with a thundering hangover scrared to check his email?
nah - - I'm guessing he is in a happy dither of anticipation -
ya know, this world is so full of 'things' - - I used to collect 'things' for fun - now I have so many 'things' that I need buildings to keep them in - - dunno - - thinkin' I oughta be sellin' rather than buyin' - -
"there's enough for everyone"
dunno - - thinkin' I oughta be sellin' rather than buyin' - -
Checked your profile, nothin'.
So I assume you are at the same stage as I am. When we were younger we wanted to acquire things and dreamed of acquiring even more. Now it comes to a point that I am asking myself what do I need those things for.
Yep, Checked your profile, nothin'.
You been spending too much time building sheds to house your stuff.
I'm telling ya, something ain't healthy. :o)View Image
Razzman.
Do you draw those comics or are they from somewhere's else?RELAX... The work can wait... The fish might be biting...
I'd love to say I just doodle those off in my spare time but it's just not so.
I don't know if your ever read Mad Magazine as a kid but those cartoons were done by Sergio Aragonés, often times as little one inch long drawings in the outer columns of white around the perimeter of the page. Oh to
be young againView Image
I had to quit comics when they went to 10 cents from a nickel. I think Mad Magazine was after me.RELAX... The work can wait... The fish might be biting...
Ah, a great aged one has entered the ranks of Breaktimerhood. Welcome.
Bet you wish you had some of those old nickle comics now. Worth much more than a nickle.
Actually the first comicbooks were a dime and for a short while some publishers started printing comics that sold for a nickle but they didn't publish them for very long of a time.
Just think if you had went out and bought the first Superman appearance in Action Comics #1 at the newsstand back in '38, placed it in an encyclopedia and left it there till now.
Care to wager a guess what it would be worth on the open collectibles market?
Guaranteed you'd be smiling.Ok, a hint...
Investors Leave Stocks To Find Comic Relief
Copyright 2002 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co., The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Byline: Michael Sangiacomo; Newhouse News Service
December 22, 2002
Looking for a safe place to stash your cash? Forget steel mills. Consider the Man of Steel.
Rare comic books have become a hot new investment for people nervous about the stock market, says one of the country's largest dealers in rare comic books. Stephen Fishler, co-owner of Metropolis Comics in New York City, said investors are shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the first appearances of Superman, Batman, Captain America and others - comic books that sold for a thin dime more than 60 years ago. They are even investing in newer comics, like 1962's "Amazing Fantasy" No. 15 that features the origin of Spider-Man. That 12-cent comic, in near-mint condition today, is worth about $42,000.
"These are people who have seen their stock portfolio go down for the past two years," Fishler said. "They want to put their money someplace where it will perform, not shrink. These high-end collectible comics have only grown and grown every year," Fishler said.
In many cases the new buyers are not comics fans, just business people. Fishler said he has sold $1.5 million worth of comics to one man, $1 million to another.
D. Chambers, 70, of Amarillo, Texas, pulled $98,000 from his stock portfolio this year and invested in near-mint issues of comics from the early 1940s, including "Exciting Comics" No. 9 and "Suspense" No. 1.
"That one issue of 'Suspense' increased in value by 18 percent this year," he said. "The others go up between 12 and 18 percent. I can't do that well in the stock market, certainly not lately. I have them stored in a bank vault for my future."
Ben Smith of Metropolis Comics noted that "Detective Comics" No. 27, the first appearance of Batman in 1938, sold for $80,000 in 1992. That comic is now worth $300,000.
But $80,000 worth of stock from Time Warner, the company that owns DC Comics and Batman, bought in 1992, is worth $164,441 today.
"Marvel Comics" No. 1, the 1939 comic that introduced the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, recently sold at auction for $350,000. Ten years ago, a copy of "Marvel Comics" No. 1 was worth a mere $42,000.
Just as in the stock market, there are "Blue Chip" comics that have increased in value each year and are considered safe investments.
"There is an increased interest in putting money into . . . comics like 1930s and 1940s Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman," Fishler said. "These books get more valuable every year. Also the EC horror comics of the 1950s are always good investments." Fishler said there are many good investments from the Golden Age besides the obvious ones.
"The late 1930s comics are very good," he said. "There are a lot of very rare comics from that time, obscure titles like 'Phantom Lady' with Matt Baker's scantily clad women on the cover; 'Amazing Man' by Bill Everett; and those wonderful 'Master Comics' [featuring Captain Marvel Jr.] with anti-#### covers by Mac Raboy. Few people can afford the Holy Grail of comics, 'Action' No. 1."
But Norman Klopp, a partner at Midwest Investments in Cleveland, does not recommend trading in a stock portfolio for old copies of "Blue Beetle."
"Comics are a form of art and come under the heading of alternative forms of investing," he said. "That would include coins, stamps, antiques and the like. You have to know what you're doing. I would never touch it because I am not knowledgeable in that area. It's hard to put an intrinsic value on a comic book beyond supply and demand."
Klopp said he can look at a building and figure out what it will be worth in 10 years. He can't do that with a comic book.
"That's why we take a very conservative approach to the stock market with a well-diversified portfolio," he said.
Article Copyright 2002 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co., The Times-Picayune
be smiling
Edited 3/25/2005 1:43 pm ET by the razzman
I like reading comics but collecting them? There is always going to be a greater fool until that fool is me.
You'd have a heart attack now. Comics are now $2 and up.
Each!
I would. I have to keep up a good working relationship with the used book stores. 7 and 8 dollars for a current paperback weakens my knees. I have this reading addiction.RELAX... The work can wait... The fish might be biting...
I can relate! Some addictions are hardcore, mine is worse - its hardcover. I started as a kid with the light stuff, fortune cookies, cereal boxes, comic books. Before long I was sneaking a flashlight under the covers, reading Mad Magazine all night. From there the addiction grew.I began to realize I was different than the other kids in school when the local library named a new wing after me. As a teenager my habit would cause embarrassment. My friends would loan me magazines with pictures of topless women, and I’d read the articles instead. But hey - National Geographic has some great articles.My wife caught me sneaking on the computer at night, reading software agreements. I went through a phase where, for no logical reason, I would read ancient, long-forgotten documents completely irrelevant to our modern world, things like the Hammurabi Code, the Nabonidus Chronicle, the Bill of Rights.My budget couldn’t sustain my habit. I owed money to every bookstore in town. It got so bad even my library card was overdrawn. But I really knew I hit bottom when Border’s called the Immigration Department on me. So anyway, I’m with Bookaholics Anonymous now, and I love it. I love the meetings, the testimonials, but most of all I love this thing we have called the Big Book. That’s the only big book I get. Because of my problem, I’m only allowed very THIN books. You know, like "California Schools: the Actual Benefits from the State Lottery", "Campaign Promises Kept: The Historical Record Of Political Integrity", or "The Donald Trump Guide to Humility in the Workplace."
Hilarious. But the sad part is that I can relate to this too. See you at the next meeting.RELAX... The work can wait... The fish might be biting...
A new use for the Tavern-
instead of all us tool-aholics, there's now all us book-aholics.
We're probably going to be moving this year, so I started packing some books in anticipation.
I packed several boxes in minutes, and didn't even make a dent in what we have. My wife and I are both readers and book junkies.
THE BIBLIO FILES - BOOK CRIMES OF THE MEAN STREETS...a hardboiled pulp-fiction pastiche for booklovers in seven pithy paragraphsThe sun was just going down, and the coffee just wasn't, when I took the call. Dispatch called it a possible case of domestic literary violence, "book-abuse" in layman's terms, I called it a good excuse to abandon a bad cup of java.When I arrived at the crime scene, only the silent victim remained. He wasn't talking, but the evidence spoke volumes. It was written all over the poor guy. Water-damage and mildew, probably from being held hostage in some damp basement somewhere. Coffee-stains told the tale of certain torture by being held under a scalding cup. Dented corners, grease stains, highlighter markings, marginal notes in ink. More evidence of mayhem than a grunge-rock concert-arena the day after. The hapless victim had been tossed aside like a tuxedo in a honeymoon suite."Where's your dust jacket, buddy?", I inquired. His pages shivered in the cold evening breeze, but he didn't answer. He'd been without it for some time, judging by the damage his cover had sustained. Then I noticed a particularly cruel instrument of torture: a paperclip! Several, in fact, wickedly embedded at the top of several pages, left there for longer than a bad credit rating, disfiguring the pages and bleeding rust stains as a permanent testimony to the sadistic nature of the perp'. My stomach churned, and it wasn't just the bad coffee. Gingerly, I removed the clips, knowing that the damage could never be undone.Suddenly I became aware of another casualty nearby, Victim Two. My nose was the first to notice: a victim of canine urine poisoning. Callously abandoned, this poor guy had found himself under the fourth leg of a dog on the other three. Then I noticed the dog-eared pages, wickedly folded back to satisfy the sick reader's whim for a bookmark. There was no life left in the carcass. It was an ex-library book that had checked out for good! I looked at the title - it was a dogmatic treatise! How ironic, I thought to myself."WHO DID THIS?!!" I raged - to no one in particular. I wanted to lock this sicko up for good, and I wanted it bad. My gut told me it wouldn't take a rocket-scientist to solve this one. A guy this many sandwiches shy of a picnic is just asking to be busted, down at the end of Easy Street. I took the short ride, if you know what I mean. I opened the cover of Victim One. Sure enough, the perp' (like the dog) had left his calling card. I could read this thug like a book - he had left his John Hancock on the endpaper - what a chump! A few calls and a short time later, I had him in custody."Honest, I didn't know book-abuse was a crime!", he sniveled. "How about them librarians? Why don't you guys ever bust them? Always glueing and taping stuff to books, writing on them, rubber-stamping them! But you look the other way, just 'cause they're government workers, I suppose!""Save it for the judge, Palley. He's the one does the sentencing, if you read me. Hope you brought your toothbrush Palley, 'cause you're takin' a little field-trip up the river. Oh, and be sure and call your momma and ask her to bring you a good detective novel, seein' as you'll be havin' so much time on your hands." The irony of it hit him like a ton of books. I dropped him off at the station like a bad habit. Then I got to thinking about what he said. Maybe he had something, after all. The tires of the prowl car let out a squeal like a long-tailed cat under a rocking chair as I headed for my next bust - at the public library!
Huck-
Did you pen that?
be pennedwell, let's play it again then, sam.
Ok, so now what am I going to do with this hammer ?
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow
It is easy to be friends with someone you always agree with.
Cash it in for nookie.
ROFLMAO !!Perfect !Almost makes me wish I DID have the hammer.: )
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow It is easy to be friends with someone you always agree with.
I don't know but if I knew it was worth that much I might have went three hundred.
I noticed that E Bay now offers financing! 50/12=$4.17 per month.
Thats why I stay away from e bay! Have you seen the prices of 500 mm f2.8 camera lenses? I wouldn't want to bid on one of those baby's by mistake lol
All Things Wood!
Stephen Prunier Carpentry
"...500 mm f2.8 camera lenses?"
Now THAT would be an expensive lense. Better stick to women. Free speech leads to a free society.
Now THAT would be an expensive lense>>>>>Yeh but $500 for a tripod and ten bucks for a pinhole camera? LOLThe secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Priceless. :)
(Gonna be teaching pinhole cameras again this spring. Just talked with the prof yesterday. Really looking forward to that.)
Free speech leads to a free society.
So does that mean after Riverfest we get to see your pic again and still feel like we're on an acid trip : )The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Well, if you liked any of those let me know. I'd be glad to print one or two out for you.
Last time I tried I got the color pretty close on that group shot from Sunday morning...my favorite is still that one on the bus, though. Didn't translate well into the computer but the print is kinda cool.
Now you got me thinking about it, I'm gonna get to work so I can knock off early tonight - spend a few hours in the darkroom. Still got a couple shots from Vienna I've been wanting to work on and been putting it off. Free speech leads to a free society.
hey Blodgett kid.......nahhhh....I hate seeing pictures of myself as I expire....although pin hole pic might work being that I don't even know its me..Tell ya what my brotherman......lets go for it at Riverfest....my pony tail wasn't grown in enough at Mikefest....Katrina used my snips to make it less disgusting in her words....tee hee.I'll bring my Minolta 35mm and the fish eye lens just to add to the uhhhhhh...psychodelized array of pics.
Be well brother
a...The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
If you buy that 500mm f2.8 lens, I have an plastic garbage can lid that might be big enough for a lens cap.BruceT
tomorrow there is an old fashioned auction about 15 miles from here - cabinet shop going out - bunch of 3-phase - I have 3-phase....there's a shaper - I don't have one...'Onsrud' brand - old american iron....how can I not check it out? - - 36" bandsaw, more old american iron - - they might go cheap...'course my wood shop ceiling wouldn't be tall enough...but I could cut a hole in it - - - 30" planer....14" rip saw
plus lots of stuff for standard woodworking...
or, I could stay home, deliver and bill a fair size furniture repair and prune the last 3 rows of apple trees to be done for the year - - and not spend money that is budgeted for things like property taxes....
hmm.....
That there is what they call a bonafide dilemma, Doud.Free speech leads to a free society.
hey gunner, is that the same hammer you spent 100 bucks on?
well, let's play it again then, sam.
I spent more then a huindred on one just like it.
Pardon my fat fingers.
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