Cincinnati Reds Redsfest Bag & DVD available now!

My son and I went down to Redsfest this month and the Reds were giving away a tote bag and a DVD at the festival. I've got a couple listed on eBay for sale. The listing ends on Friday so I can get them mailed before Christmas. Very nice item.

The Book Store is Expanding

I've updated the Book Store section in the TSC Sales store - added more categories that I think folks will find of interest.

The bookstore is divided as follows:

• Collectibles - Signed Books
• Humor
• Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers
• Science Fiction
• Spirituality
• Sports Books of All Other Sorts
• Take Me Out To The Ballgame - Baseball Books

More sections will be added as I have time and I haven't had a chance to stock the shelves, if you will, but will add more books as time allows. I've got a great number of good science fiction books.

One of the great finds I've put in the store is one lot of three James Bond novels: Thunderball, Casino Royale, and You Only Live Twice. The books are vintage Signet paperbacks from the mid 1960's. I even have an affordable overnight delivery option with in the contiguous 48 states.

Don't forget to check my inventory at Amazon too - everything here is also there. Just click on the link to the right.

Sparkie & Big Jon

The same day I found the Bennett Cerf book, I picked up a vintage magazine called TV Radio Mirror; the May, 1956 issue. The issue told of that year's awards for viewers or listeners' favorite shows (hence the name TV Radio Mirror). Fascinating find and had so many great oldtime shows.

The real surprise personally was the bit about the show named the favorite children's program on radio, Sparkie & Big Jon, a radio show that began here in Cincinnati, broadcasting daily. By 1956, it was a weekly show, on Saturday mornings, I believe. The reason it jumped out at me is that a friend's dad was the writer for this show during its run on radio. I made copies of the article for my friend and she was going to give some to her family (their dad passed away earlier this year), so they're enjoying reading about the show and its popularity.

Have a look at the listing here.

Laughing with Bennett Cerf

Last year, I picked up a copy of Bennett Cerf's Vest Pocket Book of Jokes, a faux leather volume that fits, where else, but in your shirt pocket. This particular copy had a number of news clipping jokes inserted inside too. Then last week, I came across a new book, Bennett Cerf Laugh Day - a paperwork book of jokes.

Cerf was one of the founders of the publisher Random House and became known for his collections of humor. Both books are listed in my eCrater store - a great gift idea for that humorist in your life!

You can read more about Cerf on Wikipedia.

Joe Nuxhall - Cincinnati Newspapers Commemorating Nuxie are Available

Reds legend, Joe Nuxhall, passed away Thursday night. Both Cincinnati papers had great front page and Sports page stories on The Old Lefthander. I grabbed some extra copies for folks out of town who might like one. I've got them listed on eBay - the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Post.

Stocking Stuffers for the Democrat in your life

I have a couple of items that I regularly sell on eCrater that I always have in stock. One is the bumper sticker from the Clinton Museum in Little Rock, AR that reads "I Miss Bill" and the other is the shirt with the same message, with the portrait done by Pop artist Peter Max.

Check out my other items for the Democrat in your life on eCrater.

A Hole In One - Jack Nicklaus Autographed Book, 1991 PGA Senior Tour

In the "you never know what you may find" department, I stopped by the thrift store today to drop off some clothes and decided to check out the books as I'm apt to do. One caught my attention right away - it had a signature right on the front!

It was a book for the 1991 Kroger Senior PGA Tour Classic at Kings Island just north of Cincinnati. I couldn't make whose signature it was, but it looked like "Jim" with a letter "S" last name, but I wasn't sure. The list of players in the book didn't give me any clues, but I thought I'd give it a try, bought it and came back to research who it was.

After a couple of views on Google, I came up with it. Found some things to compare the signature with and dropped my jaw - Jack Nicklaus.

So now I've got it listed on eCrater at this link.

My daughter suggests that I should link to another photo that shows the autograph elsewhere, so check this one out
While you're at it, check out my signed books in my eCrater store (including a book about the Football Hall of Fame that has three Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame players signatures by their names!

Vintage Glass Vases

Here's an interesting item I found - I have no idea where it was made or when, but it's very interesting and beautiful.

http://tscsales.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=1627971

Red Sox Are World Champions

Sometimes it works out to delay listing some items. I've had a couple of t-shirts that I've just never gotten around to putting up on eBay and now that the Boston Red Sox are once again World Champions, it was time to get the shirts up.

This one is a youth XL Boston Red Sox shirt that will be perfect an young Bosox fan.

The other shirt I also finally put up was a 2004 St. Louis Cardinals National League Champions T-shirt, this one an adult XL. It is in extremely good condition.

Hopefully next year, the Reds will be in the thick of it and I'll have lots of Reds items to sell.

Hey Coca Cola Collectors!

Over the last year or so, I've accumulated a number of Coca Cola items. So I decided to combine them all - some nice additions to any Coke afficianado's decor.

So we have here a nice Coca Cola pillow sham (looks to be a standard bed pillow size), 30 Christmas Coke coasters, and finally, four 6 X 7 1/2 metal trays.

Again, we can ship in time for Christmas.

Remember - Have a Coke and a Smile! http://tscsales.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=1490816

Norman Rockwell Collector Plates - Christmas Series

With the holidays fast approaching (less than two months away now), I thought I'd highlight the great collection of Christmas plates I have from the Edwin M. Knowles China Co. in their Norman Rockwell Series.

I have seven Christmas plates from these years:

Update: I've added the titles below

1976 Golden Christmas
1978 Christmas Dream
1979 Somebody's Up There

1984 Santa in his Workshop
1987 Santa's Golden Gift
1991 Santa's Helper
1994 Christmas Marvel

Check them out at this link: http://tscsales.ecrater.com/category.php?cid=284426

Remember, if you buy more than one plate, the cost for each additional plate will just be an extra $2.00 per plate. Great gift idea for the year a person was born (we gave some to each of our kids for their birth year) or the year a couple was married.

That item you find thinking it will sell and then it languishes...

Do you ever find that thing to sell that seems like a can't miss, but then it languishes?

I've got a number of those (some of which I'll list next week), but I've picked up some ashtrays lately and they're just not moving. Maybe it's that folks are smoking less and mostly outdoors, so ashtrays are a bit outdated.

I figured this Nebraska Cornhuskers ashtray would move easily, but alas it hasn't. So this gives me and opportunity to try out adding a picture to the blog and linking its listing.



http://tscsales.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=1501033

So there's my first experiment at adding a photo and the link to the item.

I also have a Sheraton Hotel and a Sanka ashtray (found at rummage sales, not hijacked from establishments!). Just click on my eCrater link to the right to see them and all of my other items for sale.

It's a Start!

Well, I've decided to start up a blog for my internet sales. I'm always looking for great items to sell and on most everything, I'll ship worldwide!

My regular sales items are two items: Cincinnati's famous Skyline chili (sorry, no international orders) and an I Miss Bill bumper sticker from the Clinton Center in Little Rock. I sell both items on eCrater and eBay.

From time to time, I'll highlight new items I've found and also some of the backlog of inventory I have. For instance, I've got quite a few Norman Rockwell commemorative plates listed on my eCrater site (see link on the right).

I also have quite a few books which have been autographed by the authors - not to mention a book about the Football Hall of Fame autographed by three Cleveland Browns who are members of the Hall of Fame in Canton.

I'm checking on how to add a link for all of the books I have on sales on Amazon. I will add some to the eCrater site as I go along.

Check us out!