The imaging for James and Sons May auction is now finished, and the printed catalogues should be available early next week, with online catalogues being available at www.the-saleroom.com or www.jamesandsonsnorfolk.com at around the same sort of time.
Once I finished the stamp lots, there were some postcards, some first day stamp and coin covers and some collections of military buttons to do.
Since I have been imaging all day today I have lots of good pictures for you…
After a full day spent imaging stamp lots, which can be accomplished at a good rate, the backlog of imaging for James and Sons May sale, which takes place at the Maids Head Hotel in Norwich on the 24th is looking a lot less bad than it did this morning. Printed copies of our catalogue should be available early next week.
The stamps I encountered today were from the full range of places and eras, and as you will see from the pictures which dominate this post, there were some gems…
As planned yesterday I travelled to Cambridge to take part in some research into Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC).
This took me to a part of Cambridge I have not visited before, the Trumpington Road, where the Autistic Research centre is based. Unfortunately my astigmatism meant that I was not able to do most of the visual tests, but I did complete various other tasks, and following an email from one of the researchers I have just signed up as a volunteer so I can complete some online questionnaires.
Given my strong opinions about the levels of ignorance and prejudice that continue to exist re Autistic Spectrum Conditions I always accept any opportunity to contribute to increasing the level of knowledge about these conditions.
No pictures with this post as I have to leave for work.
I managed to get some good work done on the database today, and to image some more lots for the May sale. I now have invoices and vendor advice notes sorted out, and am starting to assemble some detail about stock for the May sale. I hope that I will be able to handle the May auction with my system, which will be stage two.
Today’s imaging was quite interesting, featuring a variety of lots.
Tomorrow I will be in Cambridge for most of the day taking part in various projects being carried out at the Autism Research Centre on Trumpington Road. I have just been doing some online bits in preparation for this.
As usual when I have been imaging I have some highlights for you…
I have sorted out one major problem with the database today, which leaves the issue of vendor advice notes to be resolved, a bid book creation process to be streamlined and one or two other things. Also of course there is a whole new auction to produce4 images for, to say nothing of my responsibilities for producing press releases.
Today’s imaging, once I got to that stage of the day was all postal history lots, but I have only a few of those left now, before I move on to something different.
As usual I have some pictures for you…
Another fine and varied day at James and Sons. As well as making sure that the Royal British Legion had images an descriptions of all the lots in the April Sale, so that they knew what sort of stuff we take for auctions, I found sorted out sold items according to the pick lists, picked out unsold items for a couple of our vendors who will be at Diss Fair tomorrow and made a start on imaging for the May auction.
I missed a piece of cricket history through being at the auction yesterday, as led by skipper Chris Rogers’ 241 not out Middlesex achieved the highest ever successful run chase in a match at Lords, racking up 472-3 to win a match they appeared to have lost.
As usual I have some pictures for you…
The April auction is over, with the usual mixture of great successes and abject failures. The books were an utterly predictable disaster, with only a handful of Pevsners selling, while the cigarette cards also failed to attract much interest. On the credit side, militaria fared well, as did coins.
My day included a lot of heavy lifting, operating a computerised bidding system that I am not yet terribly familiar with and also locating various items for customers either to view or that they had purchased.
Today I will be working on the database and starting to image lots for the May sale, which takes place on the 24th at the Maids Head Hotel in Norwich.
I have no new images for you, so I will resurrect a few good ones from the archive…
The images for the April sale are all done, the queries are all resolved, and I have been able to spend most of the day working on the database. Hopefully I will be able to concentrate fully on database work on Thursday and Friday of next week, after the auction.
I did not do much imaging today (only a handful of lots that had slipped through), so in addition to the two blogworthy images I did produce I am also providing a series of images to demonstrate the assembling of one very large image at the end as well…
The imaging for James and Sons April sale is finally complete (It took me until 3 O’clock this afternoon to finish off the last bits), and although there will be some heavy work loading and unloading the van and laying out auction lots (I have been given responsibility for setting out the book lots to best advantage – big surprise!), I may finally get time to do some database work, for the first time in a while.
As well as the last lots of Liebig Company picture cards, following on from several thousand older cigarette cards, there was some interesting ephemera in todays lots.
Bad light spoiled a classic finish between Lancashire and Warwickshire yesterday, meaning that save for Yorkshire’s thumping of Northampt0nshire every game in this round of championship matches was drawn. When the light dipped below the critical level Warwickshire needed 25 with five overs remaining and five wickets still standing – all four results possible although a tie or a Lancashire win would have had generous odds at that stage.
As usual I have some pictures…
I enjoyed my Easter weekend. Although I did not catch much of this year’s Classic FM Hall of Fame, I was able to listen to the last couple of hours, and was pleased to see that the Rachmaninov Piano concerto no 2 did not stay at number one. Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending regained the top spot. A full listing of the 300 pieces that make up the Hall of Fame will be available on the Classic FM website.
Judging from the scores I saw on cricinfo yesterda, near the end of the third day, the current round of county championship matches has been badly hit by the weather.
The massive backlog of imaging for the April auction is nearly cleared, so I hope to get some time to do some work on the Database on Thursday and Friday, and possibly on Tuesday before starting to move stuff for the auction.
As usual I have some pictures for you…
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