Thursday, January 13, 2011

My latest auction on january 12th

Again we was out doing the second day of Extra storage space tour.

And this day was good, TONS of nice lockers up for grab. One unit was sold for $300.00 and i am sure it is going to give the guy back 20 times that amount.

For my own part, i am very happy with what i got.
I got a unit for $20.00 this day, as i am trying to spread my investments on more units.
It was a 5x10 unit, and i looked all dusty, it looked like no one had been in there for years.

Well to my big suprise, none of the "big fish" wanted to bid on it, so i started of with a $5.00 bid, one guy did 15 right after that, so i bid $20.00 The guys looked at me and said, your trash now.

LOL he should only had known what was in there. My motto is, never turn a unit down because of it's looks. It is what's on the inside that counts.

Well i took it all back to my place, two trips in a little Nissan Sentra and the job was done.
Back home i started to go thru things, and one little "gold nugget after another came out of the dusty old boxes.

Here is what i got form this $20.00 dollar unit.

1 Porcelain sign from the Viktor company, they went out of business in 1921. And the sign is in almost mint condition.
One box full of old toys from the 50's and 60's
Two boxes full of glass plates and drinking glasses.
1 16 pice set of christmas fine china (unopen and brand new)
22 magazines from the 60's all about beatles and rolling stones.
1 black and white photo of John Lennon with autograph.
1 American creed letter from the US house of congress, sign by the congressman of Tennessee in 1964.
1 Fashionshow program signed by Roger Nelson him self.
1 black and white photograph of John Lennon (Beatles) signed. Might be a print, but have to have it checked out.
1 framed in A4 paper with at least 50 different autograph's i am not sure who signed it.
2 Programs from 1964 from the opera in St Louis
4 Official NASA catalogues from the 1964 regarding the moon landing with the apollo. (in mint condition)
1 catalogue of the lunar orbit expedition ( in almost mint condition)
1 old Memphis railway fare coin
4 old coasters
2 old menu's with add on "we sell pepsi" stickers
1 Secratary desk from the 1960's
1 old workout machine from the 1980's i think.
1 old flute from the 60's
+ tons of old pictures.

I am sure i am forgetting something, but the things listed above is absolutley worth the $20.00 bucks i paid for it.

So i had a very good day out in the field, even though we saw the low 20's here in Memphis yesterday.

Now i am looking forward to the auctions next week, can't wait for them to come.
These are the small ones, 4 locations each day. 18th and 21st is the magical days next week.

1 comment:

  1. Is there anyway you could post the locations of the auctions for the 18th and 21st? Or e-mail them to me at danielperrygin@hotmail.com.

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