Lowes Home Improvement carries the Portfolio line, but if this came from a locker it has been my experience that items can be 2 or more years old and no longer carried or even manufactued and thus become harder to research.

My GUESS is that it was probably about a $200 fixture...but that is just an opinion.


Something like an old Bose speaker or receiver would be easier of course or an old Nikon camera or an old 16mm projector or an old Jimmy Durante plastic nose. (well maybe not the last one, and most people on these forums won't even know who Jimmy Durante was).

Nice Grab MM
Ps
  Don't forget to leave Your name and address with the office so they can pick up there personal stuff 

Despite two live contacts with the frm owner and two "answering machine" contacts, this flake has not made any sustantive effort to get back MANY old photograph albums....many of them her mother's.

Pretty soon they all go to the dump. I'M not in the business of storing someone's stuff when they don't pay for that effort. Frankly, there will be a certain joy in throwing that history away.

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Meanwhile the fellow who tried to help her out by coming around and asking for "compassion" for her asked if the stuff was still in the locker.....oh sure, I've just been SITTING ON IT for three weeks waiting for her $1,000. GIVE ME A BREAK.

He said if it was still available he would pay $1,000 for it. Well, fat chance buddy as I have already made $750 profit, still have a lot of smalls left and the big items are not yet sold. Probably will be renting lkr for a 2nd month hoping not to move some of the bigs.  Safe has two inquiries but nothing serious yet.

Let us know what you get.

I was thinking the next couple marketsof trying tools and if it works then buying off ebay for the niche to support auctions.

Any advice on this subject.

IMHO, this won't work. The people selling tools on eBay have gotten them cheap at flea markets and hoping to make more on them at eBay, not the other way around. You would be paying for item, paying for shipping...won't work...but again, just my opinion.

Just curious on how many trash runs you have had to make on this unit?

Why it's just like the two TV shows....no dump runs ! 

But actually, if I had loaded my van with the trash it would have been 2.5 to 3 loads. As it happens, I got rid of the trash in the following manner.

1) The prop mgr at the facility let me use theirs for smaller stuff which I poured out of boxes rather than throw the
    whole box in...makes for a "tighter" dump load. This I did 3 times for maybe 8 boxes.

2) The prop mgr at my main storage facility (where I have had a unit for almost 8 years) lets me do the same thing
    on a regular basis. I dumped maybe 4 boxes there.

3)  I paid a guy $10 to take 3 mattresses on top of the load he had in a big trailer. This would have been the biggest
     item I had to get rid of.

4)  Finally, I had the ratty, cheap footlocker, an old antique chair beyond salavage and some other "bulky" stuff....they
     went "clandestine" style over the top of a 40 yard dumpster 1 block away at a construction site where mostly the
     cardboard rolls from thousands of yards of carpeting were being dumped.

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Other stuff that I didn't want to sell went by the box load to nearby Goodwill, and one load of those boxes was sold to
one of the guys I help out by selling to cheap. It was 6 boxes for $20...he might sell all that for $80 or so and we are both happy.

More work perhaps (negotiating, figuring out, etc) than going to the dump, but it saved me maybe $75 for three loads, and the gas. The time involved would have been about the same amount using any technique.

Nice, very, very similar to yours. How did you find that link?

Well, I'll give you 50% of the credit for the research (but not 50% of the income from the sale).

I took your Celtic idea and broadened it to "English" and then my blanket idea and came up with "English Blanket Chest".

The resulting link was about #5 on the google list I think and when I got to page one I did a search within their site and found the twin to my chest. A closer match you could not ask for.

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Looked on eBay but found nothing similar. Haven't decided how to sell it or for what price, but anything like $250 to $300 would probably do it (unless I go for the gold like the antique dealer's do).

Bingo ! Found it !

It's called a traditional English blanket chest; at the antique dealer link below you can see 5 or so pics of theirs and it's similar enough to mine to make a good comparison.

Their asking price?  $550.

http://novecento.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_item_detail.php?id=286491

Click on one of the pictures on the right and it will enlarge; then you can click on "next" in upper right corner for other pics.

Definately more local, I have tried like 20 combinations of words to find this thing, but nothing.

Did you try "nuts and bolts folk art" ?  I did and got this (see link below). Pieces on there from $25 to $200.

etsy.com/search?includes%5B%5D=materials&q=and+nuts+and+bolts