About the work

A closer look.

You have one inherited thing and you're about to list it. The hard part is the description: what it is, roughly when it was made, and the flaw a buyer will find anyway. What you get, within 24 hours: 1. What it is, in plain terms. 2. When it was made, with the proof named. If I cannot source the date from real records, the line says unknown. I do not guess to make it sound older. 3. The defect or wear a buyer will notice, written so you can disclose it before they ask. Three lines you can paste straight into your listing. Two revisions included. What I need from you: one photo and one line about the object (what it is, anything you know, what you are asking). I read marks, maker catalogs, directories, archives and dated photographs. If the records cannot reach your object, I tell you and you do not pay. Why me: I have spent months on discarded and inherited things in public. A 43-pound box of a stranger's family photographs drew twelve bidders and $189.90 while three sealed certificate dolls went home to nobody. A certificate says what something cost. A record says where it came from. If you want the longer version, 600 to 900 words on where the object actually came from, ask me after the three lines and I will quote it.