Harpenden 23rd September

[ppppenguin]

It's September so time for Harpenden. As usual Jeremy, Brian and I will be running the Bring and Buy stall, trying to extort as much money from you all in support of the Vintage Wireless Museum.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

[beamcurrent]

I have a LARGE amount of components, parts, slow-mo drives, knobs, switches and vintage test equipment given to me by a retired engineer who has tasked me with selling it to raise funds for the vintage wireless museum.

As well as my own smaller pile of stuff.

See you there, bring an empty car and a full wallet!!

Brian

[ppppenguin]

I've got a pile of books, manuals, BBC documents, Trader sheets etc, some of which I've advertised here. Probably 3 or 4 feet of shelf space in all. All 100% proceeds to the Museum except perhaps the Trader sheets.

I'm wondering whether I really want all my BBC Research Dept reports. About 2 feet of them. They are all available free online so I'll ponder a little.

There are also a few bits of kit but I haven't sorted them out yet. Must remember a radio that I promised to somebody a few months ago.

[ppppenguin]

Off to the TV day at Dulwich soon. Then only a week until Harpenden.

The pile of stuff that I'm taking to Haarpenden is getting bigger. There are some metal drawers full of odds and sods, loads of manuals etc as mentioned before. There's a box of assorted relays and contactors, a specialist resiatance meter that goes down to milliohms, a case full of assorted R and C. All except a few items are 100% proceeds to the Museum.

If there's anything around at the Museum today that they want me sell at Harpenden I'll take that too, just like I did at the NVCF.

[ppppenguin]

Picked up a few bits from the Museum surplus pile for next week.

A fairly big German radio with lots of piano keys. "Nora" brand. I was told that it works on FM but not AM. The magic eye lights up.
A bakelite hairdryer in a bakelite carry case. The box is broken but the dryer looks fine.
A low voltage variable PSU

There was a fair bit of stuff I didn't take. Size, laziness whatever. I'll mention an unusual TV in another thread.

[pamphonica]

Just a reminder about how the Bring & Buy works at Harpenden.

We are no longer in the foyer but just inside the main doors to the hall itself. You can still leave stuff with us during setting up as we'll have a booking-in table in one of the doors to the main hall.

There are 2 ways to sell stuff on the B&B.

1: Donation with 100% going to the Vintage Wireless Museum. We also like this because there's no admin for labels, lists etc!

2: Sales with 10% commission to the Museum. If you have more than a couple of items it helps us a lot if you can make a numbered list with prices. With corresponding numbered price labels stuck on the items. We then add a serial letter so that your No 3 is different from another No 3. We can do labeling/listing on the day but it really slows things down at busy times. Please use the attached listing sheet, to help us.

We close the B&B when the auction starts (12:30 or 1pm) but if you've sold anything you can collect the proceeds at any time. Please remember to collect unsold items well before the auction starts.

You've all been fabulously generous in the past, raising over £400 at the last Harpenden, so let's hope for another big donation to the Museum this time.

See you on Sunday

Jeremy

[ppppenguin]

It seemed like a madhouse at the B&B today but the results justified all the work. Over £1000 for the Museum.

Thank you to all who helped, by staffing the stall and by contributing so generously.

[Amrad]

Hello Jeffrey,

That's a fantastic amount! It must be a record, surely?

Regards,

Dave.

[ppppenguin]

Yes, it's a record for Harpenden by some large margin. I think the previous record was under £600.

[pamphonica]

It's worth pointing out that, very unusually, we had not one but two car-loads of items from sadly departed members of the community.
All those items were donated by their families to be sold for museum funds . That made a huge difference.
The auction team is struggling a bit with the sheer volume of items to be dealt with, otherwise a lot of the items I brought along would have been auctioned.
I suspect that takings will return to more normal (but still gratifying) levels next time!