Chris Perkins

Indeed they are, they're the best, but Lighthouse are the same!....And if you ordered from Lindner in the UK, then you ordered from a normal Lindner dealer, like I am a normal Lighthouse dealer. They do the foreign opperations cheaply by just picking a dealer in the UK to call 'Lindner UK', or whatever. The only way you can truly order direct, is from the German factory, like I do. Hence my prices are pretty damn good for Lighthouse.

Copy and paste my HTML bit above and change the name and wording etc....Have a fiddle with the size="2" numbers and look on a chart for the hex list of colours that take the 6 character format, like the #0000FF.

Dyke (careful!)

I can get tweezers too, and the Lighthouse large coin trays are exactly the same as Lindner in every respect, they stack together etc, you can't tell them apart, except for the name on the drawer handle. He's a thing that you maybe didn't know....Lindner enforce a price fixing policy and for a coin dealer to be eligible to be supplied by Lindner you have to promise that you will sell them at the price they tell you te sell them at! That's why the lighthouse ones are cheaper, I can charge what I like, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are even made in the same factory, for that matter. I do not supply Lindner because of the price fixing, and would only do so if I was asked to be enough people.

Banana-boat

It'd called 'Viss' in Germany, so I don't know what the Jiff people are playing at. We bought some today. (sorry Raoul for ignoring your coin, I hope you are very pleased with it!)

So it's still called 'Jiff' over there is it! That's very unfair.

(My Uncle, William Henry Perkins went down on the HMS Hood on that fateful day, I met Edward Briggs the other year, the only still living survivor out of the 6 that survived out of 1200, or whatever it was. Dad and I are members of the HMS Hood association in Unlce Billy's honour. Although my Dad is not old enough to have known him) my word, dare I... Stamp!

Oh yes, thanks, well I did start it! For a good 3 months I was mostly talking to myself, and although I am still a big contributor it's nice to know that me only makes up around a quarter of the total posts thus far.

Yes they are very difficult to grade, use the reverse too and look for hair.

Capri (not so!)

I like a nice BU dark Edward VII farthing with that wonderful tone. Very pretty, but you really have to have a perfect one in your hand. They don't scan at all well.

See here: http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm It's my little general numismatic dictionary thing, do you like it? It was bought to my attention that there was be some words missing. So tell me some coin related phrases or words that you think I should add...And the definitions, and I'll add them!

I decided to Omit some specialist terms in the hope of providing a general list. Right, I'm going to start a new topic for additions.....

I have a nice little glosary too, have you seen it? http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm

No, it's perfectly ok Raoul, i'd be much more concerned it it was anygood! Not to say it's particularly bad...Just not great for British Milled collectors, which is what most of my members are. Feel free to draw our attention to any related website you care to.

Master JMD has worked out the signature!

Ah, that solves it, you can use normal HTML in your signature. At the time of writing, mine is: <font color="#000000"><b><font face="Arial" size="3">Chris Perkins</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><bR></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2">British coins, Collecting accessories, books, and this great forum!</font></font><br> <a href="http://www.predecimal.com"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000FF"><b>www.predecimal.com</b></font></a></p>

http://www.predecimal.com/collectors/shop/gloves.htm Aha, so that's why none of those are selling! You can get to them but it isn't easy! I used to sell 3 pairs at a time because of minimum credit card transaction amounts....I can of course let you have 1 pair for £3.00

Isn't he considerate.

What's wrong with my cotton cheap gloves £9.00 for 3 pairs?

No serious collectors would buy that, they are basically just for tourists or for people to buy as gifts for collectors. If you got those as a gift, what could you say...'Sorry Nan, they're complete poo, can you take them back?'

As you know, I'm 25 now and even though there were computers around in the 80's they were few and far between. My first 'PC' was a Sinclair ZX81 which I spent time programming in BASIC everytime I turned it on (I didn't have a cassette recorder to save anything on!). It was a hand me down from my uncle. (The same unlce that started me coin collecting) I then progressed through Spectrums, right up to the 128k +3 which had a disk drive! Then an Atari ST, then a 286....386's, 486, Pentium 1, 2, and now I'm on an AMD1300.

erm, there were flames, err, and the devil with a goat, but it might have been a sheep, or even a lamb. When you're being possessed the species of sacfificial animal is not top of your agenda.

My dad's even quicker than that!