Yes, I have the “Stormy” Pictorial Quarter, and more! You won’t believe the incredible beauty of these pendants, earrings, keychains, cufflinks, tie tacks, pins and much, much more.
You can now set up a complete shop without hassle and heavy expense, and I’ll tell you exactly how to do it, just like I showed how to make a professional sculpture armature for just a few bucks instead of hundreds.
Okay, so here’s the deal:
You get a framed 16″x20″ Pegboard, 20 Designer “Soft-Tip” Retailer Pegs, 100 Perfect Pictorial Quarters for $300 — that’s $3 bucks a pop for my “Perfect” pictorial quarters, which is what you’d pay anyway without the Pegboard!
So that’s a saving of about $100 right there. What else do you need to get started? Lessee … you’ll need some jewelry stuff.
When you send for the Jeweler’s Starter Pack, you’ll receive pictorial quarter size coin-edged bezels with which to make your lockets, for which you’ll pay $10 apiece, until you’re able to order in larger quantities, in which case, the price will go down somewhat.
I hope that’s helpful. You’ll also need some fancy bezels for those customers who want something a little more elite. Those HAND-MADE fancy bezels are made right here in California, and they will run you $22 apiece — more silver and a LOT more labor in those, and you’re mostly paying for the labor.
Silver findings and other stuff from China is a LOT cheaper, but the downside is, it’s from China, but hey, it’s your choice.
You’ll also want to offer your customers an alternative to jewelry, which of course would be my famous Gorby’s Magic Lucky Charm, which can be carried in pocket or purse, or placed anywhere, including a desk drawer or a laptop compartment, just for luck.
You can set up a special Pegboard just for those, if you wish. As a matter of fact, Pegboard Shops will be offered here as soon as I’m able to arrange the photography. I have several mini shops in mind:
- FINISHED COIN PRODUCTS — These will be completed pendants, earrings and such that feature quarters with images I find appealing and that I want to sell, such as the immigrants on Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and the figure of Abe Lincoln, before those images of Freedom are forbidden by an Act of Congress. There are more Russians in the Republiklan Party than there are in Russia.
- MAGIC TRICKS — I have dozens of magic tricks that are now in packages that fit easily on the spin racks, so they can easily be placed on one or more of the Pegboards. I can make up a Pegboard with items at $10 retail apiece, with a cost of $3-$5 each, which is the best I can do on price. Better tricks are available at an average of $30-$40 each. Anything beyond that goes into a regular shop setting.
- WOOD BEAD EARRINGS — These are those beautiful Genuine Czech Hardwood Beads that I’ve been using for years and years. They last and look great and are lightweight and cheap, so your earrings can be sold for a mere $20 a pair, with a cost of $10 each, or YOU make them yourself and save! If you buy in quantity and sell in quantity, you can get the cost down to less than $8 a pair!
- ANCIENT BEADS — Ancient beads come in a package at only $3 each, to sell for $10 to $35 each! I will send GREAT ancient beads in this pack!!! LOTS of reading artifacts! Cost of Pegboard for this is only $300, and again, the Pegboard and pegs are free, but YOU pay shipping — at this price, I can’t afford to even think about it, much less offer it.
- MODERN BEADS — These are semi-precious and very high-grade. I don’t sell junk, crap or crud. They come in packages that retail at $10 and you pay $3 apiece for them. You get 100 packages of GREAT semi-precious gem beads AND the Pegboard for only $300!!!
- CZECH HARDWOOD BEADS — You get 100 FAT BAGS full of Czech beads, the real thing, ready to sell and sell and sell at only $10 a bag, with your cost at only $3, actually less, if you consider the cost of the Pegs and Pegboard, which brings your actual net cost down to a mere two bucks, so how about THAT??? Total cost of the Czech Hardwood Bead Shop is only $300!!!
- FIBRE ARTS — Handmade wrapped fibres made into special beads, again only $3 apiece, 100 on a Pegboard for a total of $300 with a FREE Pegboard & Pegs!!!
- ANTIQUITIES — Ancient Assorted Terra Cotta Miniatures guaranteed over 2,000 years old, to be sold at $35 retail, only $15 apiece for a total of $1500 for the complete Pegboard with 100 authentic antiquities from dozens of ancient cultures including New World, which dates around 900-1100 A.D. — the Old World pieces can go back as far as 10,000 B.C..
- DUNGEON CREATURES — You get a Pegboard with 100 fantastic VINTAGE pewter and lead creatures, at only $3 each, to be sold for anywhere from $10 to $35 retail. I will NOT hold back, you get all the goodies!!! THIS IS A SACRIFICE SALE — I need the room, and I have one of each in my own collection, so help yourself!!!
- EMO MOOD GEMS — You get 100 packages of Genuine EMO Beads, that change as your mood changes and sell for $10 apiece, plus the Pegboard and Pegs, at a total cost of only $300 — you can’t buy the beads at that price, and you save $100 on the Pegboard, Pegs & other stuff, as well.
- KITCHEN WITCH MAGNETICS — You get a full selection of handmade fridge magnets that can be used anywhere there’s something that a magnet will stick to, such as a fridge or your average metal file cabinet or indeed, anything made of magnetically influenced metal. You’ll think of dozens of applications for these.
- INDIAN HEAD PENNIES — You get a full rack of GREAT Indian Head Pennies, no junk, no scrap, no crud, all goodies, some even with good dates, for the low, low price of only $3 apiece — ridiculous!!! Total cost of the board is only $300 and you’d best grab it before I change my mind and delete this paragraph.
- WHEATIES PENNIES — A great selection of BAGS of Wheaties from 1909 to 1958, and again, I’d grab this before Seller’s Regret sets in, and as Jonathan Winters said to Pablo at Musso & Frank’s Grill on Hollywood Boulevard in 1966, “better bring me some extra bread and butter, this shit’s starting to wear off.”.
- EMBOSSINGS — You get an entire rack full of original embossings “in the raw”, which can be mounted in acrylic capsules or in a variety of sizes of silver and 14k bezel settings with protective crystals, but YOU will have to master the mounting skills necessary to make those crystals fit properly into the bezels, and that takes some practice and a LOT of willingness to LEARN SOMETHING NEW and perhaps at first difficult. The bezels run anywhere from $10 to $50 apiece, depending on what your customer wants or what you want to put forward in your local area. Cost of 100 embossings? Only $3 apiece, but don’t expect ME to do them at this price. I’ll review them, but they will be student work, or do them yourself suits me fine.
- MINIATURE DRAWINGS — You get 100 original student drawings in clear bag retail packaging, to be sold at $10 retail per piece, the total cost at $300 for 100 pieces plus the Pegboard & Peg Mountings.
- MINIATURE PAINTINGS — You get 100 original student paintings in clear bag retail packaging, to be sold at $10 retail each — total cost for this rack is a mere $300, and when those guys find out they have to produce this for you, they’ll be thrilled! It’s the dream of every artist to have their work find its way to an appreciative audience.
- MATCH BOX PAINTINGS — By far the most popular, with the best public results, is the hand-painted matchbox. You get 100 hand-painted matchboxes mounted in retail sales packs, to be sold at a lousy $10 bucks each, with a cost to you of a crummy $3 each — would YOU do this for that crud money??? Well, we will. It’s about getting people to cross the line from customer to coin searcher, and that’s an easy grade to climb, so get on it and help folks realize this work reality!
Oops, there are dozens more, but gotta go, ran outta time — breakfast awaits, and then the morning show.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby