Book Board Chat

Hello book boarders- haven't been on in a couple of weeks. Just scrolled down and caught up. I'm so glad that we still have an outlet for the old book board!

I've been continuing to clean out both my father's and mother-in-laws treasures, and have had some interesting adventures along the way. We sent my Dad's stamp collection and a print from my MIL to Doyle Auctions in New York- very convenient, as they are three blocks away from MIL's apartment! The stamp album fetched $3,500 and the print (that I thought was hideous) $2,500 so that was good, and we enjoyed the process. It's also nice to have a permanent record in an auction catalogue. There were 20 Dunhill tobacco pipes that I realized I was completely incapable of describing properly. I found a great eBay seller who took them on consignment. He cleaned them up and wrote up some really expert sounding auctions...my share of those was about $1,700! Who knew?

With more tuition bills due (two kids in college!), my daughter and I are working on this:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Clothing-Shoes-Accessories/Vintage-Hermes-Belt/5100157259

anyone have any good advice?

Also, did anyone see The Great Gatsby movie? What did you think? I loved it, even though it got mixed reviews. Would be interested to hear what you all thought...