Welcome to Lazares Bazaar! eBay Trading Assistant & Education Specialist.

Jason again. I'd post more often but we've been really busy lately, which is good, because that means there's a lot of business! We just got in a bunch of antique and vintage furniture, including chairs, lamps, tables, even some canoe oars - including a rocking chair that's almost 200 years old! We also got in some silk artwork by an unknown artist in China, as well as paintings by a once-local professional artist. We should be catching up and getting all of this listed soon, so check our eBay store regularly!

We just started going through the collection of comics we've gotten in, and there are a TON! We have probably around 220 Avengers comics alone (which we're in the process of listing now), and numerous other series we'll be getting to soon enough. In addition, we're finishing up a collection of 17 excellent glossy baseball press photos from the AP Wire in the 1940s. Should be an exciting next few days!

Hey, I'm Jason, and I just started work at Lazare's Bazaar about a week ago, so you'll be hearing more from me as time goes on. First things first: we're working on listing a couple of women's jackets and purses we got in recently. The jackets are both from Hong Kong; one's from Francesca Rose, with a nice black denim style with silver-colored buttons - the contrast makes it look pretty sharp - with some little black beads you wouldn't even notice until the light shines on them just right. The other is from Cedars, and it's a pretty expensive jacket with an extremely colorful and complex design made out of overlapping fabrics and threaded beads - not exactly my thing, mind you, but it should make someone pretty happy. As for the purses, one is from Gucci, which I gather is a fairly well-known purse designer - but I have to say that although we couldn't identify the maker of the other purse and frankly it's in worse condition than the Gucci one, I like the way it looks better - but then, I don't know anything about fashion. Either way, it's leather, with a little hand tooled pattern that resembles a plant. We're also listing a handheld electronic Sudoku puzzler from Leed's. Now this sort of thing is more up my alley. It's got a tremendous amount of Sudoku puzzles, all divided into five different levels of difficulty. It's even got a puzzle editor for the user-generated content folks - or maybe it just lets you copy puzzles you've found elsewhere. I didn't have any time to mess around with it All of that should be listed soon, if it isn't already. We also got in a tremendous collection of pipes and pipe stands in many, many different styles - we even got a pipe in that was carved to resemble a man's face. Even though I don't collect pipes and am not a smoker myself, I thought they looked really neat, so you should definitely look out for those in the next few days if you're a collector or, I suppose, just really like pipes. We'll be putting most of them up in a big lot, and making separate auctions for two of the pipes that are probably worth more. The "man's head as pipe" one is part of the lot, though, so you'll have to bid on that if you want it.

Had such a great time with the antique playing cards, I didn't think it could get any better, and then what happens? I receive a call from a fellow John Lennon fanatic who feels it is time to divest himself of his collection. YES!!! I have had more fun listening and reading and viewing the life and times of my absolute musical hero that I feel as if I'm reliving those years. I've only had time to get some of the early vinyl singles up, the 45 RPM's and so forth with such great songs as IMAGINE, INSTANT KARMA, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, MIND GAMES, HAPPY XMAS, and so many more. From picture sleeves to imports from Japan of Be-Bop-A-Lu-La, it's one treasure after another and I am absolutely ecstatic. If I could I would bid on many of these items myself. From Musketeer Gripweeds and the Third Troup "How I Won The War" to the 1983 calendar featuring photos of John and Yoko's Toronto Love-In, I can't get enough, and so much more to go through yet. Please if you are a BEATLES fan, or just into one of the FAB FOUR, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, or Ringo Starr, or even the controversial Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band, keep an eye out on our store. I've added a new category just for John Lennon Collection items, and will be adding to it regularly. Wow! I LOVE THIS JOB!!! LOL :)

Just had the most fun researching and listing some antique playing cards that had been in this sellers family for years and years. Was finally able to determine that they are of antique playing cards was most likely made by the New York Consolidated Card Company (Samuel Hart) c. 1890. [Dawson/Hochman, p.56, NY42b] The company made these decks with both Faro (one way) and Poker (two way) courts. This deck has the Faro courts. While I am not a collector of cards myself, I would rate these cards as being in good to very good condition. You can see in the images the Ace of spades does have a small corner crease and there is some staining from what looks like soot, grease, or dirt on most of the card fronts. Written on the Ace of Spades in the banner are the words "American Manufacture". This was one of my more fun listings to date. Man, I'm loving this job!!