1920 State of Pennsylvania License Plate: 103-years old NICE! Ships4FREE2USA!

Description: 1920 State of Pennsylvania Vehicle License Plate: 103-years old = NICE! Ships4FREE2USA! Hello All, Jamie G here: My stepdad (Richard "Rick" Russell) was an avid Pepsi-Cola Collector going back as FAR as I can remember (Early 1970's), he would take my mom, younger sister and I to swap meets and flea markets each Saturday and Sunday, when we lived in Los Angeles. I remember all the Pepsi items we would obtain week-after-week as that was our main focus. But but, but... I totally forgot about all the "other stuff!" Rick passed away going-on eight years ago and my mom stayed rather status quo, but then she called me totally out-of-the-blue and said, "Come and get this Pepsi Collection or I am going to throw it all in dumpster somewhere!" I was literally driving up from Atlanta to Detroit the next day to start to curate and relocate the Collection from Detroit to Atlanta, where my family resides. I will be honest, it was not easy to empty a house of several decades of collected items, especially when you are a novice. I literally wince when I consider all the items that I thought were trash, that now (looking back) were ANYTHING BUT TRASH! This was a lesson I learned rather late in my life, that lesson was "You never know what is of value to someone else!" Thankfully, I got the lion's-share of everything. After six trips driving back-and-forth, I can say, I did not like it much then; it was a ton of work. BUT truth be told, I was rather surprised as I went through all the Pepsi Cola Collectibles, taking copious photographs, collating, curating and then time-to-time stopping and pensively reflecting and remembering when and where we found ____ . It was cathartic and going through all the notes and items, I think I got to know my stepdad a little better. Rick would pay my sister and I a "finder’s fee" for anything we found running around those swap meets and car shows, we were hunting Pepsi Cola branded items with a double dot between the two words PEPSI and COLA (Pepsi:Cola), as this meant it was from 1953 or earlier!) What we were paid the most to find were items that featured "Pepsi & Pete," the two cartoon keystone cops that Pepsi Cola used in their advertising-starting in the 1930s. These unique items brought us triple our normal finder’s fee! What I totally forgot about and was the literal treasure-trove of other antique & vintage collectibles, as Rick and my mom collected much more than just Pepsi Cola, he collected items that he thought, in his own words, "were trick!" He loved old antique and vintage items from 1900 to the 1950's. I have uncovered he had a lot of automobile items; emblems, badges, lights, hood ornaments. But so many others, I assume the hundreds of Ty Beanie Baby’s Circa:1992-2003, but who knows? Additionally, I have WWII recruitment posters, old comic books, baseball cards, vintage magazines; Life, Collier’s, Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, McCall's, Better Homes and Gardens, Popular Science/Popular Mechanics and so many more. I found vintage ashtrays, cornflower corelle, marbles, Ball jars, glasses, matchbooks, advertising ephemera, metal signs and trays, US & foreign currencies and on and on… So now my non-Pepsi items are currently growing to nearly the size of the entire Pepsi Cola Collection! It took me nearly two years to curate and photograph the Pepsi Cola Collection, and I have now moved on to the other stuff, so be patient with me as I am a rather novice Seller on eBay and this is not my actual job or profession. That all just means that it takes me awhile to get everything posted and as my wife likes to tell me (near daily), I am too verbose. But whatever... as Popeye said, "I am what I am... Ag Ag Ag!" So that is my back-story, up for grabs today is a fantastically persevered: 1920 State of Pennsylvania Vehicle License PlateThis plate is 103 years old and will truly only appreciate in value. I have hundreds of vintage and antique license plates from the USA, Canada and some island nations that they visited, some of these date back to 1903, so take a look at my other postings! A couple quick items about what kind of eBay Seller I am: (1) I will always accept a return from a buyer who is not delighted with their purchase. My stepfather was kind of an asshole when it came to selling or trading to/with other people on what he collected. It was one of few times that I (as a kid) thought my step dad to be an incredibly cruel man. He relished the power he had over those people who "wanted" something, that he had. To be honest, I hated this about him and as such, I just do not do that, I WILL always negotiate on PRICE, as I do not want the price to be the determiner that kills a deal. I will always do my best to not allow you to walk away unhappy just because I want to gouge you for a few more dollars on an item. Truth is, I know how much fun "collecting" was to my stepdad, so I have decided to honor his memory by finding homes for his very unique items with other collectors hopefully as passionate as he was about his collected items. That said, I will obviously take your item back from you and provide you a refund, IF YOU ARE NOT 100% satisfied and/or delighted with your purchase. I believe this is the way that professionals conduct themselves, I am from the school of Treat Others as You Want to be Treated! So don't fret, I only ask that you ship it back to me unscathed, just as you received it! (2) Should my listed price be too high, just take a second and let me know and please feel free to make a counteroffer (I costs you nothing, but a few minutes of your time). Do know that I know the value of many of these items, but again, price is only one part of my selling process. I used to do a lot of auctions via eBay, but those just seemed to drag on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on (see what I did there). Then I uncovered Buy it Now and that seemed a much better and faster way for me to get items to people who wanted them without having to wait XX days for the auction to end etc. Again, I obviously want to make a few dollars selling all this cool stuff, but it is truly not my one objective. It seems very strange to say that in a post where I am selling something, but it is the truth. I want these items to find a home similar to where I grew up, we had so many rooms filled with antiques and vintage advertising, it was just common place for me, but I do remember when new friends came over to my home for the first time, they were floored with the Pepsi Parlor they would walk around for at least 30 minutes ogling over everything (I will try to find and include a photo or two so you understand). (3) I forgot to express my abject hatred of other sellers on this forum who attempt to make up for their cheap listing price, by obviously gouging on shipping costs. THIS is why I almost always offer Free Shipping. This way you can calculate and know proof-positive the REAL COST of what you are buying. I think it is he fair and reasonable way to conduct business. As an example, I many times list things as such; Blah-Blah item for $18.75 with free shipping to Continental USA, I ensure nothing is left as a surprise, so for that Blah-Blah item, I listed it at $18.66, knowing and telling you, you will pay $1.31 in sales tax, so in the description portion, I will net-net it all out for you and say, "This item will only cost you a TOTAL of less than $20.00 to buy and receive the Blah-Blah item delivered to your door." I try to make it as easy as possible for you and others to do business with me, knowing what you'll pay. Therefore, today's example works out like this: 1920 State of Maine vehicle license plate with a listed price: $138.75 + $9.71 sales tax (eBay charges it upfront, nada I can do), so you will walk-away with a TOTAL price of under $150.00 = Delivered to your door, as I pay the total shipping cost! (4) Please know that I will review any counteroffer that is made regarding any item I am currently selling. So tell me YOUR story! Tell me why you want ____ and let's work to get you the item or items you want and need! Life is just too short and if I can make your day, maybe bring a smile to your face by getting you an item for a price that is a bit better for you, well, I just may do that! Here is my best outcome: I want us both to walk away from the deal happy, (You know that feeling where you just bought something and just cannot wait to go and tell someone what you just got and for such a great price, Wow!? This is what I want for my Buyers because I get the same type of feeling when I sell a blah-blah item (that I may or may not have helped collect as an 11-year old) - Why? That's a two-fold answer: A) I make $ that then goes directly into my two teenage boys college fund! and B) I enjoy watching people's joy when they get what they want for a fair and reasonable price, moreover, knowing I facilitated that joy! Weird I know, but that's probably why I ended up in Training, Learning & Employee Development as a professional, as my passion has always been people. Additionally, as I am rather obviously transparent, those who buy my items usually enjoy the process as well. In fact, the feedback I hear the most from my Buyers is that they enjoy buying from me, as they claim "that I am a different kind of Seller." Now I am not so sure about all that, but I know this, there is no "caveat emptor" here (Latin/English = Let the Buyer Beware) - and yes, I learned that Latin phrase from watching Brady Bunch reruns on tv as a kid! The fact is I am not going to get rich selling items on eBay. I could go on about how all this forum has changed in the last 5-10 years as there are now a shite-ton of new and different fees Sellers face; insertion fee, selling fee, listing fee, listing upgrade percentage (fee), store subscription fee and let us not forget the always subjective and baffling final valuation fee, but that would be like explaining to you the difference between the US currently having high inflation versus being in a true recession, it still hurts, it's still really boring and it truly doesn't matter as at the end of the day - It is, What it IS. ...But maybe my explanation will help you make sense of why and how I do what I do. Plus, this is my side-hustle, I enjoy it, it's fun for me, and it makes a little extra money for my two teenage boys' college fund! I thank you for looking and if you like what you see - make me an offer you as you never know what mood I am in and what I will accept! Thank you for looking! JamesGraser67 = Jamie Graser

Price: 138.75 USD

Location: Cumming, Georgia

End Time: 2024-11-21T19:04:47.000Z

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