Someone (goodness knows who) has put a collection of Denys Fisher toys on ebay (removed today) which had a whopping 50 bids!!! with a top bid of £11,600!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly fell off my chair in amazement and poped over to a merchanside website to see if anyone had noticed, and there was a whole thread devoted to this auction! Now the DF toys from the 70's are much sort after and indeed rare and intact with their original boxes can fetch around £300 per piece, so this bidding was well over the top...I read though the thread with interest and it appears that the seller had used someone else's pictures in his auction, and then this someone else (who was justifiably very angry) decided to put on a whole load of false bids on these items!!! Not sure how this would have worked if this bidder had won, but if I am reading it right, it was a pretty silly thing to do!...Well I have stopped collecting myself now and am gradually selling off my whole collection as my readers will know. December will be my next listing binge for "Who" stuff but I just hope no idiot decides to put millions of bids on my auctions, as I have noticed several other sellers have jumped on the Denys Fisher bandwagon with this one and selling their toys too!
On the Troika front, there is a vase listed at the moment that is soooooooo obviously fake, but amazingly has bids on it!!! The art on the vase which isent even a Troika shape, appears to have been decorated by a two year old at nursery class...Surely if people decide to collect Troika I do wish they would at least learn somthing about the designes and decorations!! The person selling this vase has worded it carefully with "not sure this is genuine so you decided" but it dose have Troika written on the bottom so its a total rip off!! I am hoping ebay will spot this soon before someone get dissapointed...the vase is already on a "how to spot a fake guide" on ebay so I am hoping it will be removed shortly....Selling and buying is so slow becuase of this credit crisis...Today a Troika coffin vase sold for a miserly £50!!! about a quater of its value, and there isent much else nice that is listed! Another vase at a starting price of £135 finished unsold, with no bids...so time to find another bargin soon methinks!! A rectangular vase listed today caught my eye, which dates from the mid to late 70's and at a start price that is sufficently high so as not to attract too many bidders and, just about what I can afford! We shall see....
Mum came for lunch today and Derek took her home again just before it got dark. Also I have been sorting through some of our old Christmas decorations as last year most of them got ruined becuase of a leaky tank in our loft...thats a very long story...But basically Christmas week we had water pouring through the dining room cieling, and the central heating boiler packed up!!! I remember sitting here by the fire will all my candals blazing waiting for the engineer to come and fix things. It turned out that the boiler and the tank in the loft wern't connected so we had to get another plumber to fix the leak in the loft!! When Derek went up to retrive the decorations about 70% were totally ruined!! Including some vintage paper decorations from the 60's which were worth a small fortune!...anyway with Christmas fast approching I thought I would give them a final sort out and bin the ruined stuff, which I have!
Right then, I am hopping off, but with no plans for tonight I might just watch "the other Boleyn girl" again, and get a weeny bit plastered!!