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Ardent Listener
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 Posted - 07/07/2006 : 18:45:28
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My wife and I went to a huge "yard sale" today. It really was not a yard sale because they hold it each year in an empty store. It's for charity and people donate items for the sale.
I spotted a whole counter of brass lamps. One in particular caught my eye. It has a base of about 8" round and grows smaller and larger to a hight of about 3 feet. It kind of looks like a huge candle stick holder. It must weigh over 15 pounds and all brass. As I grabbed ahold of it, my wife said, "What are you going to do with that!?" Before I could tell her that I could scrap it and come out ahead, the lady who worked there reduced the price of it down from $5.00 to $2.00.  She said that she wanted to move everything out.
I hauled it around the sale while my wife shopped and my arm started to get tired. People kept looking at it and I could see they wished they got it first. I bought it and when I got home I started to polish it with brasso. But it was not really doing much. I started to think that maybe I skunked myself and it was not really brass. But then I noticed that it had a varnish coating over the brass. So I got ahold of some of my wife's nail polish remover and then it started to turn the color of gold in my hands. I only got half done with it today. I would not scrap it because even if I did not use it as a lamp it would be great as a huge candle stick holder.
I want to go back tomorrow and see if any of the rest are still there. I might have to sneek out so my wife does not know though.
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ImperialFleet
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USA
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Posted - 07/07/2006 : 22:14:01
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good snag, I would say it should always have a value higher than scrap. I restored a lamp from my grandmother that had the same varnish coating 
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Posted - 07/10/2006 : 02:42:15
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let's hope one day we can haul in our copper, nickel, or cupronickel to trade in some silver rounds
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