Things they come home with...

21 Mar 2006

I've just had a phonecall and a mad half hour trying to identify the junk, sorry........ potentially valuable items...... he has bought while out and about.
Armed with only the makers name and a vague description of what this bloody item is I have to go on a mad hunt to find it, identify it properly and then tell him the value he could sell it for.
With the images of Steptoe and Son.... Del boy and Rodney.... Mr. David Cheap as Chips Dickenson floating around my now troubled mind, I trapse off into the google wilderness with one eye on the dreaded ebay.
I'm convinced he's bought the kind of thing that graces the antiques roadshow in the section where the presenter lets the unsuspecting member of the public down gently by asking how much they paid for it.... then the sharp intake of breath tells you its either a fake worth or the real thing worth twenty times that amount.
He's hanging on the end of the phone while I find the pages needed to identify the junk he's just bought... to let him know its worth an absolute fortune..... when bam........

I find the image of it and hope to god its worth more than the five quid he's just paid for it.
He failed to mention he bought a bloody set of the hideous things! Where on earth are we going to hang a set of five "decorative" mangy riverside pets royal doulton plates??? :shock: banghead

Anyone know of any decent auction rooms.... there is a set of bollocks freshly emasculated for sale. smile

:twisted:

21 Mar 2006

There is me thinking this is a thread about 'what the cat brought home'

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
In my case my old cat use to bring home, dead birds and rabbits for me!
The new cat as of yet has brought nothing home YET!
Regarding the plates:- maybe a quick sale in the local paper with mothers day coming up

21 Mar 2006

The cat nellie and I had to mind for a while was bonkers! lol

It didn't bring anything home, but then I can only cope with junk being introduced by one member of the household.
I'd have a hissing fit if the cat turned up with something dead.
Mind its not the first time I've been threatened with a stuffed animal as a gift.... cos it was cheep and it wanted a good home rolleyes

I should be glad... my dad goes home with parts of tools he found... the odd paving slab or two that was lying around... etc... cos it might come in handy one day??? Erm... two odd shapped semi broken paving slabs and a spirit level that doesnt read level anymore??? loon

21 Mar 2006

i'd just like to point out that this has nothing whatsoever to do with me!
:barf:
neil x x x ;)

21 Mar 2006

Instant Xmas pressie for someone you don't like ! :giggle:

21 Mar 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
Instant Xmas pressie for someone you don't like ! :giggle:

hmmmmm! :twisted:
Thing is most of my relatives would probably find them awfully tasteful and be over the moon to recieve one... either that or theyre terribly good liars. dunno

Who on earth would I give five river animal themed decorative plates to? really? :dunno:
Neil... how about your mum??? She want them? Make up for the necklace I broke while trying to get naked to participate in a group orgy? Maybe I won't mention that on the tag? ;) lol

21 Mar 2006

hiya little gem are the plates from a very limited edition?
i dont know these plates but royal doulton produces thousands of most of these type of plates usually say something like limited to 90 days production on the back!
& yes you can imaging how many thousands of plates can be produced in 90 days production confused

i usually get to at least three auctions a week (where my user name comes from) & most royal doulton plates if they sell go for a couple of pounds a peice sorry but just too many of them about to be worth much :?

21 Mar 2006

Quote by little gem
Neil... how about your mum??? She want them?

oi you! my mam might be 60 this year, but she's not yet started ordering Franklin Mint tat from the back of the Daily Mirror just yet? :P
though if he finds them Star Trek limited editions, i'll have some of them? ;)
neil x x x ;)

21 Mar 2006

Star Trek? nellie??? :shock: I didn't know you were a trekie? :eeek:

Quote by lovejoy68
hiya little gem are the plates from a very limited edition?
i dont know these plates but royal doulton produces thousands of most of these type of plates usually say something like limited to 90 days production on the back!
& yes you can imaging how many thousands of plates can be produced in 90 days production
i usually get to at least three auctions a week (where my user name comes from) & most royal doulton plates if they sell go for a couple of pounds a peice sorry but just too many of them about to be worth much :?

:rotflamo:
Well thats a bit of a revelation! lol

only 90 days ey... :lol: these were on a limited 150 day run and come with their own individual boxes, numbered around editted 2000c, authenticity certificates, catalogues and leaflet of something or other! rolleyes

:lol: Oh well... he's bought worse I suppose! :roll:
kiss

Gem. x

21 Mar 2006

all isnt lost little gem if you wrap them in bubble wrap & put in back of cupboard im sure in time your great great great great grand chilren might get a score each for them

or you could use them for posh cat food plates (if you have cats smile

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21 Mar 2006

Quote by lovejoy68
all isnt lost little gem if you wrap them in bubble wrap & put in back of cupboard im sure in time your great great great great grand chilren might get a score each for them
or you could use them for posh cat food plates (if you have cats )
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Do actually think I'm going to keep them? In their boxes? Safe? :rotflmao:
Actually :shock: The alternative is to display them on the wall! :eeek: < shudder >
you really think any self respecting cat would eat off a plate with the local wildlife painted all over it!??? confused

Bit extreme to buy a cat to go with the hideous crockery though!

21 Mar 2006

ok my last idea
find someone who is short of clay pigeons & sell them for target practice
job done cool

21 Mar 2006

Five just don't seem a right number for a set Gem, just think, this could be a whole new adventure going round and finding the missing one / ones.
rotflmao

21 Mar 2006

Quote by lovejoy68
ok my last idea
find someone who is short of clay pigeons & sell them for target practice
job done

Mmmm, that sounds quite satisfying! biggrin

Five pounds per plate though... can I send the booklets, boxes, leaflets and the other parafernalia they came with to be shot down too!??? :bounce:
< PULL >
Bang! Bang Bang! Bang!
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

21 Mar 2006

Quote by davej
Five just don't seem a right number for a set Gem, just think, this could be a whole new adventure going round and finding the missing one / ones.

Mr. Davej,
In reply to your advert asking for the missing plates to your hideous plate collection, I think I can help. I've recently aquired, by default I may add, a partial set of five plates of which may be some interest to you.
They depict several animals of no significant importance foraging around beside the river and would bring an air of oldie worldie back street pub to any deserning home. Theyre a must have.
Contact me for further interest and negotiation details.
Or put more bluntly.... take these fecking hideous things off my hands or your fave pet gets it it!
Comprende!??? mad

21 Mar 2006

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You really don't like them do you.
My dear Gem I would take them off your hands, but my garden is too small.
I've had a bit of a recce and the only place that plates like this can be hung, are on boxed in RSJ's, that are installed in homes that are extended and need to have a load bearing wall supported, unfortunately my garden is to small to take an extension on the house, if it were then I would gladly spend the Â£30,000 to build the extension, to install the RSJ, to box in, to hang the plates that Gems got.
As you can see, as much as I would love to have them, I havn't got a garden big enough.