Book Ends Vintage Dodge INC Western Americana Steer Bull Cattle Head Art Copper

BullsBeautiful Vintage Copper Book Ends of Western American –  Bull Heads Behind a Fence Draped with Saddles.

Made by Dodge Inc. with each measuring about 6 1/2″ Tall X 5 1/8″ wide X 4 1/2″ Deep.  

Outstanding quality, beautiful condition with minor wear to the copper surface but nothing that detracts.Bulls2

Elegant on display on your desk or bookshelf.   These and many other collectibles can be found in our eBay store connectibles.

Petitcollin France School Playset + 2 Dolls Organic Cotton New Holiday Gift 3-7

 petitcollinFantastic 3 box playset by French companies Vilac and Petitcollin, perfect imaginative gift for children who love to “Play School” during creative play! All 3 pieces are new in original boxes. 

Includes:

  • “School in a Suitcase” – “L’ecole en valise”, is a folding storage playset of a school. Open it up and you have 30 pieces, including 2 wooden chairs, slate & chalk, ruler and wooden square, notebooks, crayons, pictures, clock.  All accessories can be stored in the 2 drawers in the small school. Highest quality, designed in France. 12″ x 8″ x 4″ when closed. 
  • TWO dolls, one can be teacher, other can be student!
  • Petitcollin “Colinette” Anniversaire is 10″, soft huggable body, removable clothes, vinyl head and limbs, blonde hair.
  • Other doll is Leo Ecolo Roselys 10″ Doll, soft fabric body made of organic cotton. Clothes are made of organic cotton as well. Blue eyes, brown painted hair, made in Europe. 

This listing features the school playset, the girl doll with blond hair and the boy doll with organic body and clothes with brown hair. All new in boxes.  Find this and other Petitcollin / Vilac items in our eBay store connectibles.

1946 Raggedy Ann Doll Gruelle HTF Silsby Tag Georgene Rag Doll 24″ Orig Outfit

RaggedyPictured here is a highly collectible version of the beloved Raggedy Ann Doll!

24″, tagged with the rare 1946 Silsby Georgene tag, only used for one year after Georgene remarried and changed her name on the tag. Marriage didn’t last, so neither did the tag!

Cheerful Silsby face, original clothing, overall good condition with wear as shown in photos. Please look carefully for details.  She’s been well loved and admired, now looking for a special new home!

Legs are an unusual non-traditional style red ticking-type stripe pattern, no boots. It appears the legs may have been replaced or at least re-stitched at some point; please look at photos and you decide. 

We have others listed from same collector that can be found in our eBay Store connectibles.

Xavier Roberts Signed Soft Sculpture 1st Sprout Anna Ruby 1989 Club Ed NIB CPK

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Featuring a very hard-to-find absolutely adorable 1989 Xavier Roberts signed Soft-Sculpture Collectors Club Edition Cabbage Patch Kid. First ever Sprout design, Baby Anna Ruby is minty new and appears to have been kept from the beginning in original box and possibly not unwrapped.

  • 7″ tall, hand-signed by Xavier, still in original shippers box! 
  • Doll is mint, wrapped in pink satin delivery blanket which is monogrammed with Xavier’s signature. She’s dressed in a lace-trimmed bonnet, cloth diaper and tiny pink booties. 
  • One hand has a miniature pink baby rattle, other has a tiny name tag “Anna Ruby.” 
  • Includes her birth certificate, framed adoption papers, registration XRE-89 315. 

Perfect little one, left dimple, looking for a new home! Original membership material for former owner included as well.

Shipping box shows wear but is nice to have so we will mail it in an additional box.

These rarely come up for auction and purchase; don’t miss your chance.  See our other Cabbage Patch items in our eBay Store connectibles.

Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, and Larry Luckinbill memorabilia items will be auctioned on eBay.

Lucy FamilyOn November 3rd, a special collection of 175+ Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, and Larry Luckinbill memorabilia items will be auctioned on eBay.

The following article was written by Sandi Garcia and appeared in the Alameda Patch.

In 2011, what would have been Lucille Balls 100th birthday coincided with the 60th anniversary of the first episode of the I Love Lucy showTo commemorate the occasion, Lucy and Desi Arnaz’ daughter, Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, decided to make available items from her parent’s personal collection to fans on eBay.

Lucie and her husband, Laurence “Larry” Luckinbill, were thrilled with response! Now that they are downsizing from their family home now in anticipation of their move to Palm Springs, they’ve decided to release more memorabilia. This second auction is expanded to include articles from Lucie and Larry’s own successful acting careers.

Hear Lucie discuss why she decided to do the first auction.

For Lucie, it was important to work with someone she trusted to manage the sale. She turned to experienced eBay seller Maida Webster, owner of Connectibles. Maida met Lucie 15 years ago in Connecticut where they both live. “She [Lucie] trusts me completely to have her back”, said Maida.

Originally joining eBay for fun in 1998, Maida and her husband began seriously selling in 2004 and their post retirement hobby has evolved into a full-time career for both of them.

Maida knew how important it was to her friend and client that fans could finally participate and purchase some of her treasured family memories. She also knew that the I Love Lucy fanbase was much more likely to be on Ebay then at a New York Auction house.

“It was important 2 years ago for Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday that we offer items that fans could finally participate in purchasing,” Maida said. “The first sale was beyond anything we imagined; the fans WERE on Ebay, they were passionate.

I asked Maida what this was like for her and she responded, “It’s been a remarkable experience to participate.” She continued, “It’s been truly a fantastic experience to immerse myself in following a family from time of the beginning of the marriage all the way to the present.”

“I am even dreaming about Lucy now!”

The items for sale span Lucy and Desi’s careers, and also include an exciting array of television, film, and Broadway memorabilia from Lucie and Larry’s acting careers.

Some highlights include:

  • 1940s bed jacket owned by Lucy
  • Desi Arnaz own personal stop watch
  • 1949 memorabilia from Lucy’s and Desi’s wedding, including her gloves, garter, and a piece of the groom’s cake
  • 1950s wrought iron patio furniture used by both families for decades
  • Original costumes worn by Lucie Arnaz on Broadway in her award-winning performance in “They’re Playing our Song”
  • Star Trek V memorabilia (Larry Luckinbill portrayed Spock’s half-brother Sybok)

Also included in the auction is a New York Yankees #42 Mariano Rivera Jersey worn by Lucie Arnaz September 15, 2011 when she was invited to throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (signed by Lucie). But don’t even THINK of bidding on this jersey, it will be mine!

All items will come with a signed Certificate of Authenticity from Lucie Arnaz. As the individual items come available for sale on eBay, they will be accessible through this link: http://stores.ebay.com/Connectibles/Lucy-Desi

A few preview items are up now. Many more will be launched at auction this Sunday evening, November 3rd.

Maida says, “I am humbled and grateful!” for having this opportunity to work with the Arnaz-Luckinbill family.  Selling on eBay can connect you with amazing stories, captivating histories, and is a truly personal experience.

If you would like to take a class to learn how to sell on eBay, my next class is scheduled for November 16th at 1400 Bar & Grill in Alameda. Register here.

Sandi Garcia is “Social Sandi”, an Education Consultant trained by eBay. I travel around the country to help teach sellers, and have taught at eBay Headquarters in San Jose, in Tucson, and in Atlanta in 2013.

Lord of the Rings The Magic Duel Gandalf Dragon Pewter Sculpture Casey LOTR

Pictured here is a beautiful Limited Edition Pewter Sculpture of Gandalf fighting a Dragon (Smaug).  Of course this never happened in the book or movie, but fun to think about.  The sculpture stands about 13″ in height and is a major work of Pewter by artist James Lane Casey.  This one is 141 / 2500 and is called the Magic Duel and was made in 1989.  The Pewter is mounted on a oval piece of finished wood.

This would make a great addition to any LOTR collection.  You can find it in our ebay store connectibles.

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Strat O Matic 1968 Baseball Card Game Complete Set 20 Teams 20 Cards per Team

Strat O Matic

Pictured here is a complete 1968 Strat-O-matic set of Baseball Cards. The set is complete with all 20 Teams and 20 Cards per Team for a total of 400 cards. The cards are in very good condition.   These cards are plain on the back, with no printing.

These are very rare and are the original Fantasy Baseball game.  This set, as well as similar sets from 1969 and 1970 are currently being offered in our ebay store connectibles. 

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Player Piano Roll 2 Duo-Art Aeolian 6057-4 Kamennoi-Ostrow 6717-4 Cantabile

We’re offering a large group of original antique Player Piano Rolls. Hard to find, perhaps you will find some to add to your collection.  Untested, but condition based on appearance for most is very good with exceptions noted. All are by Duo-Art, Aeolian Company. Please scroll for additional photographs; click to enlarge and see further identification of the actual music.
Pictured here is a set of 2 rolls in the 3″ x 3″ bigger box. Boxes show some wear, condition of rolls is very good to excellent unless indicated.  Includes:

  • 6717-4 Andante Cantabile, played by Harold Bauer. Signed box and roll. Very good condition.  Composed by Rubinstein.
  • 6057-4 Kamennoi-Ostrow,  played by Harold Bauer. Signed box and roll. Very good condition.  Composed by Tchaikovski
  • We have many others listed, and have about 100 more to list; happy to combine shipping if size permits.

Be sure to visit our eBay store – connectibles.

 

International eBay Sales are Great

I am constantly amazed at the volume of our international sales.  I think there are several reasons for this. The most important is the reasonable shipping fees from the USPS for items weighing less than four pounds. This class of service is called First Class Mail International and accounts for most of our international shipments. Another reason is that we use Endicia mail service to prepare our mailing labels and Endicia allows you to buy inexpensive insurance on this class of mail. I think these two business practices give the international customers confidence in buying from connectibles.

Another service we use is called My Store Maps. This great service keeps track of every shipment we make and plots the total numbers on a map of the world. So customers can see that we have made 147 shipments to England and 74 to Australia. In addition to these two countries, the citizens of Japan, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy are high volume buyers. Again, this gives buyers confidence that we know how to ship to their country.

Several Great Software Programs we Use for our eBay Listing

In effort to differentiate our eBay listings from others, we have picked up several software tools for improving our photographs. The first product is Bling It! It is great to be able to remove the background in a photograph and replace it.  It’s easy to remove the old background but keep the product because Bling! It has done all the hard work by tracing all the key edges in the image. Simply paint Delete outside these edges and Bling! It will flood-fill right up to the edge – a bit like painting by numbers!

Another great piece of Photo software in Picnik Image Editors.  This is a wonderful editor that makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.  Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.

Both of these software packages can be downloaded online and each has a free trial period, check it out!