1940 Super Rare Westclox Big Ben Alarm Clock - Working! Noice! SHIPS4FREE2US!

Description: Vintage and Rare 1940WESTCLOX “Working" Alarm Clockfrom the Richard “Rick” Russell PepsiCola Collection. Helloall, Jamie G here…Mystepdad (Richard "Rick" Russell) was an avid Pepsi-Cola Collectorgoing back as FAR as I can remember to at least the early 1970's. He would takemy mom, my younger sister and I to swap meet or flea market every Saturday andSunday when we lived in Los Angeles. I remember all the Pepsi stuff we wouldobtain week-after-week as that was our focus. But, but, but... I totally forgotabout all the other “stuff” that Rick and my mom collected. Rick passed-awaygoing-on eight years ago and my mom stayed rather status quo, but then on dayabout three years ago, she called me totally out-of-the-blue and said,"Come and get this Pepsi Collection and other stuff or I am going to throwit all in dumpster somewhere!" I was driving up from ATL to Detroit thenext weekend to start to curate, photograph and relocate all their “stuff"from Detroit to Atlanta, which is where my family and I reside.Letme be honest and upfront, it was not easy to empty a house of several decadesof collected items, especially when you are a novice. I literally wince when Iconsider all the items that I thought were trash, that now (looking back) wereANYTHING BUT TRASH! This was a lesson I learned late in my life, and the lessonis "You never know what is of value to someone else!" Thankfully, Idid secure the lions-share of everything and over the last few years I havegone back and forth and back and forth and back and forth in a rented truck. Idid not like it much then; it was a ton of work. BUT truth be told, I was surprisedat how much I enjoyed going through ALL the Pepsi Cola Collectibles, takingcopious photographs, collating, curating and then time-to-time stopping andpensively reflecting and remembering when and where we found an item.Rickwould pay my sister and I a finder’s fee for anything we found Pepsi Colabranded with a double dot between the two words PEPSI and COLA (Pepsi Cola), as that meant it was from 1953 orearlier!) What we were paid the most to find were items that featured"Pepsi & Pete," which were two cartoon keystone cops that PepsiCola used in their advertising-starting in the late 1930s. These unique itemsbrought us triple our finder’s fee AND a huge smile to Rick’s face!As Iwent through the Pepsi Cola Collection, what I totally forgot was the literaltreasure-trove of other antique & vintage collectibles they amassed, itshould have been obvious that Rick and my mom collected much more than justPepsi Cola items. In their words, they collected items that Rick thought were “Trick!"But my mom is more old-school Californian, and she would have said, “Bitchin,”but I digress. They both loved collecting older items from 1900s - 1950's. Ihave uncovered a lot of automobile items; emblems, badges, lights, hoodornaments as well as: Old Comic books, WWII recruitment posters, vintagebaseball cards, vintage magazines; Life, Collier’s, Saturday Evening Post,vintage ash trays, Blue Cornflower & Other Corning ware, old marbles,early; mason/ball canning jars, eye-glasses, razors, matchbooks, advertisingephemera, metal signs and trays, US & foreign currencies and on and on… andeven Original Ty Beanie Baby’s circa 1992-1998, so lots to post! Ittook me a few years to curate and photograph the Pepsi Cola Collection, and Ihave now moved on to the other stuff, so be patient with me as I am a rathernovice Seller on eBay and this is not my actual job or profession. That all justmeans that it takes me awhile to get items posted and as my wife likes to tellme (near daily), she tells that me I am WAY too verbose. But whatever, as Popeye said, "Iam what I am... Agg, Agg, Agg!" Acouple 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 theirpurchase. My stepfather was kind of an a-hole when it came to selling ortrading to/with other people on what he collected. It was one of the few timesthat I (as a kid) thought my stepfather to be incredibly cruel. He relished thepower he had over people who wanted something that he had. To be honest, Ihated this about him and as such, I just do not do that. Furthermore, I willalways negotiate the PRICE, as I do not want the price to be the determinerthat kills a deal. I will always do my best to not allow you to walk awayunhappy just because I want to gouge you for a few more dollars on an item.Truth is, I know how much fun and what a huge part of Rick’s life was spent Collecting,so I have decided to honor his memory by finding homes for his unique itemswith other collectors that are as passionate as he was about his collection(s).That said, I will obviously take your item back from you and provide a refund,IF YOU ARE NOT 100% satisfied & delighted with your purchase. I believethis is the way that professionals conduct themselves, I am from the school of “TreatOthers as You Want to be Treated!” So don't fret, I only ask that you ship itback to me unscathed, just as you received it from me!(2)Should my listed price be too high, just take a moment and let me know andplease feel free to make a counteroffer. I know the value of many of theseitems, but again, price is only one part of my selling process. In the past, Ioffered my items via Auctions on eBay, but those just seemed to drag on and onand on and on and on and on. Then I learned about Buy it Now and thatseemed a much better and faster way for me to get items to people who wantedthem without having to wait XX days for an auction to end etc. Again,I obviously want to make a few dollars selling all this cool stuff, but it istruly not my biggest objective. It seems very strange to say that in a postwhere I am selling an item, but it's true. I want these items to find a home likewhere I grew up, we had so many rooms filled with antiques and vintageadvertising, it was just commonplace for me, but when new friends came over tomy house for the first time, they were floored with the Pepsi Parlor (I willinclude a few old pictures, so you understand).(3)I forgot to express my abject hatred of other sellers who attempt to make up fortheir low listing price, by obviously gouging on shipping cost. This is themain reason that I almost always offer my items to include Free Shipping. Thisway you can calculate and know proof-positive exactly the REAL COST of what youare buying. I think it is the fair and reasonable way to conduct business.Asan example, I many times list as such; Blah-Blah item for $18.75 with free shippingto continental USA, (The stupid 'sales tax' is now charged upfront on everyitem), so I point this out as I want to ensure nothing is left as a surprise!So for that Blah-Blah itemI listed it at $18.75, knowing and telling you that you will pay $1.31 in salestax, then in the description portion, I will net-net it all out for you andsay, "This item will only cost you a TOTAL of $20.00 to buy and receivethe Blah-Blah itemdelivered to your door." I attempt to make it as easy as possible for youand others to do business with me! Therefore,today's example works out like this:Vintage & Rare1940 WESTCLOX “Working” Alarm ClockThe Listed price is only: $83.50 + 5.85 (eBay charge sales tax upfront, nothingI can do), so you will walk-away with this gorgeousvintage rare piece of Americana for a total price of $89.35 = Delivered Directly to your door as I pay the entireshipping costs! (4)Please know that I will review any offer that you make regarding any item I amcurrently selling. Please tell me YOUR story! Tell me why you want an item and letus work together to get you the item or items you want and need! Life is justtoo short and if I can make your day brighter or maybe bring a smile to yourface by getting you an item for a price that is a bit better for you, well, Ido that quite often as evidenced by my incredibly happy buyers. Please go checkout my feedback that has been provided! Thefact is I want us both to walk away from the deal being happy., You know thatfeeling you have where you just cannot wait to go and tell someone what youjust bought, and you want to share the great price you paid?! It’s that feelingof “WOW!” Well, that is what I want for you because I get the same type offeeling when I sell an item that I may or may not have helped collect as achild or teen. Why?That's a two-fold answer: (1)To make $ that then goes directly into my two teenage boy’s college fund or mywife’s “I need a new kitchen” fund! (2) Ienjoy knowing that I facilitated someone’s JOY and Happiness knowing that they obtaineda fair and reasonable price. Weird I know, but that's me, and probably why Iended up in Training, Learning & Employee Development as my professionalcareer. I enjoy watching others’ happiness.Mypassion has always been people and those who buy my items usually enjoy the buyingprocess as well. In fact, I only know this because of the feedback I read fromthem that say, they enjoy buying from me. They claim, “…that I am differentkind of Seller.” Now I am not so sure about all that, but I know this, there isno "Caveat Emptor" here (Latin-to-English = Let the Buyer Beware) -and “Yes, I learned that Latin phrase from watching Brady Bunch on tv as a kid!I amnot going to get rich selling items on eBay. I could go on about all that haschanged in the last 5-10 years, but suffice to say there are now a shit-ton ofnew and different fees we Sellers’ face; insertion fee, selling fee, listingfee, listing upgrade percentage (fee), store subscription fee and let us notforget the nearly always subjective and baffling final evaluation fee, but thatwould be like explaining to you the difference between the USA currently havinghigh inflation versus being in a true recession, it’s semantics, it stillhurts, it's really boring and it doesn't truly matter because at the end of theday - It is, What it IS. ...Buthopefully my verbose explanation above will help you provide you sense of why Ido what I do and how I sell and why I sell. Plus,this is truly my side-hustle, I enjoy it, it's fun for me, and it makes alittle extra money for my boy’s college fund, so I thank you for looking and ifyou like what you see - make me an offer you as you never know what mood I amin and what I will accept! Thankyou for looking!Jamie G

Price: 83.5 USD

Location: Cumming, Georgia

End Time: 2024-09-01T13:24:13.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD