eBay My World: yram.4( 3035)

We are Mary and Ronnie Peabody. Our passion is the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum. From Oct. through May the proceeds from our Ebay sales are used to fund the museum. We are open seasonally from June through Sept. Come and visit us this summer!

We sell vintage food labels, Victorian Trade Cards, advertising, billheads, letterheads, other vintage paper items, decorative collectibles, craft items, yard sale goodies and more. All of our vintage merchandise is guaranteed old and original. We do not knowingly sell reproductions without clearly describing them as such.

We buy items for display in the museum, vintage seed packets and occasional items for resale.

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Knitting, sewing, and crafting of all sorts. Crusing yard sales, tag sales resale shops, etc. for items to sell on ebay.

Sardines, neatly placed in those funny little cans, still are a common commodity found on most grocer shelves. Up through the mid 20th Century the odds were pretty good that the sardines found on shelves across the country came from the coast of Maine, and were processed in a Maine Sardine Factory. The Maine Coast Sardine History Museum strives to preserve and to share that history. The Maine Coast Sardine History Museum is located in Historic Jonesport, Maine, which was home to many canneries, from small family operated to large corporate, such as Underwood. The museum currently documents the industry along the Maine Coast from Robbinston to Gouldsboro, and will eventually cover the entire coast down to Kittery. The exhibits include hundreds of photographs, original cans, labels, crates, and letterheads. It also includes original fishing, processing, and canning equipment covering the entire process from fishing, to processing, to canning to shipping. Come visit us this summer!

We started selling on Ebay on March 31, 2004 as a way to work from home to fund our hobby and passion, The Maine Coast Sardine History Museum. In the beginning we sold mostly vintage labels for foods, medicines, cigars, etc. Next, at a moving sale, I happened on a vintage Saturday Evening Post with a Norman Rockwell cover. That was an exciting weekend with bids comming in like crazy! At first we were nervous about selling internationally. A very nice customer from Norway shepherded us along and there we were with our first foreign sale! We now have happy customers all over the US, Canada, Carribean, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Regretfully, due to Ebay policy, we can now accept payment only through Pay Pal, credit card or e-check.

We generally ship by USPS. We make every effort to ship the day after we receive payment, but occasionally this is not possible.

We will accept returns at the purchasers expense on any item that we have grossly misrepresented. We pride ourselves in our good customer relations skills and will gladly work with our customers on any problems that they might have with our merchandise.

We can be reached through Ebay: yram.4, mpeabody4@myfairpoint.net or 207-497-2961 . Please keep in mind that we operate from rural Maine. If you do not hear from us promptly, we may be without electricity or telephone service.