pretty good sale... quite a few common pieces but for the most part they did a good job of bundling some of the together into lots of 3 or 4 pans. lots of small logo and large block logo griswolds sold for reasonable prices... a few big ticket pieces brought big dollars. griswold #1 411 sold for a little over 9k, martin hamburger 12 and 14 sold for a combined 1k... nice big #7 oval roaster,
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Some pics from the dinkys auction last week
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pretty good sale... quite a few common pieces but for the most part they did a good job of bundling some of the together into lots of 3 or 4 pans. lots of small logo and large block logo griswolds sold for reasonable prices... a few big ticket pieces brought big dollars. griswold #1 411 sold for a little over 9k, martin hamburger 12 and 14 sold for a combined 1k... nice big #7 oval roaster,
no... I was cutting it close on time getting there the first day and some specific pieces I wanted to inspect before they came up for sale so I forgot to take any pics before the sale... but then I remembered after about 50-75 pieces had already been sold and took these pics while the auction was going on... so everyone was over in the other section of the building bidding. There really wasn't much of a crowd... maybe 50 people total... probably 30-40 percent of the lots went to online bidders. The advantage of being there in person is that they don't charge you the extra 'internet fees' on top of the bid... which is 20%. and you also don't have any shipping fees... so if you're in person what you bid is what you pay.I would LOVE to go to something like that, but Im not good in a crowd. Thanks for the pics, its like being there! Imassuming these pics were before it opened? No people.
The 'unusual' items sold for pretty high prices... but that was because there was more than one person who wanted them... and that's how auctions work. there are a couple of dedicated collectors who usually attend these and if there is a piece they want they just keep bidding until they get it... there were a couple of pieces where the bidding started out with 4 or 5 people bidding and then quickly got down to two people and they both really wanted it. I tend to have a number in my head for each piece that I bid on and I'm pretty good about stopping if it exceeds that amount. but its also nice that in person you don't have any other fees on top of the bid amount... online bidders have a 20% fee for the convenience of online bidding... plus shipping typically.I was watching that auction, but prices were too high for me. I particularly like Martin products (for some unknown reason) but I can't spend $650 on a skillet. I'm not at that level.
.. online bidders have a 20% fee for the convenience of online bidding... plus shipping typically.
Yeah, well... I'm in Houston. It's challenging for me. Sales like that don't happen here, so I'm unable to attend in person... which means I have to battle the online Buyer's Premiums and shipping fees.
There are a lot of estate sales here, but Houston is a huge city and there are tons of people who attend the estate sales (especially when the economy is poor). So digging through the many estate sale listings day after day is difficult (right now, there are 42 estate sale listings in the Houston area). It's impossible and impractical to attend them all. Finding estate sales that will have some cast iron is difficult. And then there's no guarantee that the cast iron is collectible (Did I just drive 45 minutes to north Houston, only to find that the skillet is a Lodge?!). And THEN there's no guarantee that the price is reasonable. I waited in line at an estate sale to get a moderately collectible Griswold skillet, only to find that the asking price was $165. I had to walk away. At another estate sale where I waited an hour fourth-in-line to get a Griswold dutch oven, the guy second-in-line got it (and the asking price was $120). There are a bazillion thrift stores that are constantly raided by the many illegal aliens that we have here. Goodwill NEVER has cast iron any more here - they funnel it all through their online auction site, where item prices skyrocket.
I agree about Goodwill. My wife used to work there, and they are told to send anything thats semi valuable.to Shop Goodwill. I still find the rare piece here and there, but mostly China and Mexico made. One time I did see a in my mind RARE #7 Favorite smiley face logo, enamamled , light green color, #7......I about fainted when I saw it at GW. Long story short, I coudt buy it, due to the wife working there, there are some things you cant buy cause youre related . Thats my White Whale............Oh, and it was a DO to boot!