How best to sell my mitre foot press guillotine

[Mary Ruth]

How do you think I should sell the mitre below? I bought it in 2000 for £300. It needs a lot of work to get it back to working order having been in storage for 2 years.
Please take a look at the photos and any thoughts would be welcome.

Thank you for for time.

[easypopsgcf]

Put it in the classifieds for a price you'd be happy to take.............also put it on ebay for the same price(or thereabouts) and see if anyone bites............you say it needs a lot of work?.........looks just like some surface rust, although i cant see a measuring scale on the extending arm?..............is it an early morso?...........if so and it doesn't sell you could sell the useful parts off of it, ie blades if genuine, rebate supports, especially if they are the high lift ones , then weigh the rest in for scrap...............I think it'll sell if you price it right as there will be someone who is using a saw who'll view this as a reasonably priced step up, bit of tlc and it'll be fine

[Mary Ruth]

Thank you very much for your response.
Happy Christmas

[Mary Ruth]

Thank you for everyone's helpful messages.

I think we have established on the forum it is more of a collectors item and worth around £150.

In response to some of the queries: it is as I bought it 11 years ago from http://www.wessexpictures.com/index.html, fully refurbished. There are no guards, no spare blades, no collection shoot or spares. I used it for picture framing with excellent results (even though I say so myself) and probably didn't frame more than 50 pictures. I went abroad from 2007 - 2009 so it was in storage and has since been in the garage.

I would be more than happy to receive any final offers if someone from the forum is still interested in buying it.

Happy New Year.

Jo

[prospero]

Don't sell it too short. I've seen worse looking ones than that were still in full-time employment. It looks a lot more attractive than mine.

As long as there isn't anything radically wrong in the geometry...... It takes severe abuse to damage one seriously. The surface rust is nothing. Give a good going over with an oily rag and some wirewool and you ought to get at least what you paid for it. It does need safety guards but that wouldn't be rocket surgery for someone to fit.