on 09-06-2023 03:39 PM
I have a queen Elizabeth brass coronation bell 1953 and would like to know the value. Photos attached. thank you.
on 09-06-2023 06:59 PM
@cybergranny1,
These boards are excellent for things such as policy questions, problems arising with transaction or account (and what to do), and asking for any insight into what a particular item might be – but it isn’t (and definitely doesn’t pretend to be) a valuation service.
People may offer ideas of what something’s worth, in the course of a thread, but those ideas don’t take the place of personal knowledge and research. Obviously if someone’s trying to sell a particular item that’s easy to find and buy, and it’s listed for sale at a price way under or over similar or identical items, the comments about that will probably be plentiful! Equally plentiful will be comments that point out a seller can list his/her items at whatever price they want.
But you can’t use eBay community members to give you an informed valuation of collectible items. That’s a professional job and it involves seeing items in person and charging a fee.
It’s also pivotal to have good photos showing clear details of an item if you want just a few suggestions or ideas about that item. Sometimes people will go to the trouble of doing a little bit of research to help out posters who are truly stumped about how to find out anything further. I would never take such help for granted, though. (And good pictures are needed for reverse image searching, s valuable tool for this.)
I am a little puzzled though. In your previous thread about the bottle, you seem to deflect about whether you’ll be selling that item on eBay. (I may be wrong. It’s how it appears and appearances can be misleading.) It made me wonder about what sort of valuation you needed, and I thought you might need to go more down the professional valuation route.
Hopefully you can get a phone with a decent camera function, and then the posters here may at least be able to point you in the right direction for researching these items.
on 09-06-2023 08:13 PM
A lot has happened since I last read this thread, most of it ethereal. I still contend the OP should do their own research, rather than expecting other members to do it for them.
on 09-06-2023 08:31 PM
One with better pics is going for $US70 on, guess where? eBay.
09-06-2023 08:45 PM - edited 09-06-2023 08:46 PM
Yes, doing own research is the best way to go. If someone has specialist knowledge, they may choose to share it, but generally everyone on the boards has the same access to online research…
I recently reread one of my favourite s/f works; Griffin’s notes contained a lot of expert information but sadly they remained an unknown Marvel.
Without a clear image, the forum members couldn’t even begin to research the OP’s items, even had we time and wish.
on 09-06-2023 08:53 PM
As you well know and I have since found out I cannot sell liquor one ebay.
on 09-06-2023 09:00 PM
Which relates to a bell, how?
on 09-06-2023 09:05 PM
That would be the easily findable link another member posted?
on 07-07-2023 05:22 PM - last edited on 07-07-2023 08:48 PM by underbat
Unless it's my area of expertise, in which case I probably have the answer off the top of my head.
I will never do other members' research for them.
on 07-07-2023 07:16 PM
Ask davey.