I spent most of today imaging lots for our November auction, full details as follows: Prince of Wales Suite, Fakenham Racecourse, November 29th, starts 10AM sharp. I have plenty of good pics to share with you as a result.
It is now two weeks since I launched by personal twitter account, @aspitweets, and I now have 114 followers, have been favourited over 200 times and have been named as one of the top retweeters. I will always follow more people than follow me because I have a strict “always followback” policy and not everyone else does.
I spent this morning working on post sale reports, and ensuring that everything on said reports will fit on one page. Then in the afternoon I did a nicely varied set of imaging. Away from the work front today saw a milestone worth a brief shout out: my personal twitter account, @aspitweets, gained its 100th follower.
Yesterday saw the weather change quite dramatically from a warm, humid morning to a rainy afternoon, and having been out twice for different purposes I have pictures showing both aspects. I also took some pictures of my new purchases (see post about the James and Sons auction on Saturday).
My social media role for the Great Centenary Charity Auction continues, with a landmark approaching in the near future on twitter since we are closing in on 200 followers there. We do also have a facebook page.
Enjoy some cracking photos…
Gull flies low over Great Ouse
Nar meets Ouse and sea birds meet freshwater birds
The Cormorant’s eye view across the Great Ouse
Arctic Tern lonely on a rock
Nine coins laid out in ten rows of three (yes, you read that right – see if you can identify each row)
On Saturday James and Sons had their September Auction in the Erpingham Room at the Maids Head Hotel in Norwich. The auction featured two lifetime stamp collections, a large amount of militaria, some interesting coin lots, three folders of Liebig Company Picture Cards and sundry other items.
In order to assist with setting things up, and to be ready for action at the 10AM start time it was necessary for me to catch the 6:00 bus from King’s Lynn, arriving at Norwich Bus Station just after 7:30. After a slightly slower than usual start (for the right reason – lots of bidding), the pace picked up in the later stages of the auction. On a whim I purchased a tub of thru’penny bits for £7, and a little later a made a more considered purchase of a set of Liebig Picture Cards featuring “Divers systemes de Chemins de Fer” for the same price.
Although the massive lot 83 (all 16 boxes of it) did sell, it went to an internet bidder, so it still had to be loaded back on the van. Overall it was a very successful sale, and in the end I got back to my flat a mere 13 hours after setting forth.
I have some pictures from before, during and after the sale, and you can expect pictures of thru’penny bits, and when the coin in question comes out juxtapositions of thru’penny bits and the new style of £1 coin to feature in future posts!
Swaffham Church early in the morningThe nearest place to this church is so insignificant that I have forgotten its name.
A light source doubling up as a hanger!
Most of this headgear did sell.The Auction Database ready for action (but revealing no confidential information) – all I will enter manually during the day are paddle numbers and hammer prices.This spiked helmet did not go due to having an overly high reserve.
This is part of the Norwich Cathedral complex.
Making use of a renewable resource the Norfolk is abundantly blessed with!
After an early finish at Learning Works due to there not being anything for me to do (that centre is closing due to not getting a contract they needed to get to stay open, so I have one more week there) I spent much of yesterday completing my series of posts (12 in all) about Heritage Open Day, while listening to county cricket coverage on the radio.
In the early evening I went out for a walk and as usual took lots of interesting photos, which is where pretty much all of todays pictures come from.
I have spent today hard at work on the database at James and Sons, with occasional restorative breaks checking out the twitter feed for the Great Centenary Charity Auction. A reminder here that as well as the twitter feed we have a website and a facebook page. While on twitter, I came across
Enjoy a crop of fine photos…
I am using this for the final time – my copy in its econiche!Assembled boxesAnd not long later, disassembled boxes, as all bar a few had to be flat packed way
Even this late in the year private boats are still using the jetty!
Probably this years last sightings of the Birdman of King’s Lynn
The light may not be needed at this time of the evening but this lamp post still finds a use!
This is the wrong kind of squirrel – to help the right kind of squirrel visit: voteforbob.co.uk
This was to have been just the weathervane on top of the Custom House until I saw that the flag was also in shot and did not spoil the picture
The Lynn Ferry lying (temporarily) idle.
More fiery colours of an early evening in Lynn!The last hints of sunlight in Lynn yesterday
I have had a very hectic week imaging for James and Sons, but it is now nearly all done for this auction. On Wednesday evening I got several excellent shots of a hang-glider and I have various other pictures to share with you…
Penny BlackThis was one of ten album pages of penny reds being sold as single lots
There were ten of these giant military maps to image.
In our August auction some of these picture cards sold, so some more are in the September auction.Hollywood Central Cinema aka thye Fakenham Fleapit
Red sky at night – shepherd’s delight! I ate supper outside again
Between a day’s hard work imaging for James and Sons and two sets of photos from King’s Lynn’s current Indian summer I have some splendid pictures for you. I have decided to sandwich the auction lots between two sets of my own personal pictures.
Without further ado here are my selected pictures…
Before… the larger piece is the framework of the box and the smaller that of the lid……and after – one newly assembled box – I assembled 30 of these for Learning Works while there as a volunteer on Monday morning
Butterfly with its wings closed……and open
One of five swans together on the Nar when I crossed the bridge over it.
This pair of arctic terns are in perfect synch.
A first hazy glimpse of the fishing fleetThe lead boat as it turns into the dock.
The weather continuing to be good enough to eat supper outside has advantages photography-wise as well!
I was in the right place at the right time to get some pictures of a returning fishing fleet!
As well as the press releases I have been producing invoices for the August Auction and have made a start on the imaging for the September auction (Saturday 27th, Maids Head Hotel, Norwich, starts 10AM sharp). This upcoming auction features industrial quantities of stamps (one of the lots I imaged today required 20 shots to do it something approaching justice – it was that big) among other stuff.
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