Moving sale
MOVING SALE, NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2023 / JANUARY 2024
After 39 years we have given up the antiques fairs and are selling our market displays / equipment
and we are moving premises and will have lots of office/warehouse furniture, fittings and equipment for sale between now and January.
and we no longer deal in secondhand / ex-military optics and have lots of interesting tripods, mounts, lenses, prisms etc. Also some silver pocket watches and several boxes of watch parts.
Make an appointment to visit us, call 01923 220206 or email info@quicktest.co.uk.
Location is either WD18 8PH (old address) or WD18 8JA (new address).
Contents
PRICES
LOCATION
FOR FAIRS & MARKETS
FROM WHEN WE SOLD SECONDHAND / EX-WARTIME BINOCULARS...etc
OFFICE FURNITURE & EQUIPMENT
NEW STOCK
PRICES
Visitors only (please telephone before calling), cash only, we will give the money to charity. If you require an invoice add VAT (minimum sale with an invoice, £10.00).
LOCATION
We are approximately 4 miles from each of M1 J5 and M25 junctions 17, 18, 19 & 20. When you make an appointment we will email precise directions. We are also on the London Underground (Watford, Met. Line) and mainline (Watford Junction).
FOR FAIRS & MARKETS
Four Upright display cabinets, adjustable shelves £15.00 each or £10.00 each for 2 or £30.00 for all four. Scroll to bottom to see a picture.
Dozens of wooden display tubs 50p each (many sizes) + several felt-lined trays £1.00 each.
Large heavy-duty folding wooden shelf £5.00
Giant market clips 50p each, Clamps £1.00 each
About 20 torches £1.00 each with batteries or 50p without **
Battery floodlights (new) £10.00 per pair **
2 stall-cover cloths £3.00 each
FOUR DISPLAY CABINETS especially designed for the fairs:
They have slide-on plywood covers so that you can carry them without the stock falling out. Height 26”. The backs are vertical but the fronts tilt back (so that customers can see them more easily) so that they’re 14X10” at the bottom and 14X8” at the top. One case is glass-fronted. Mixture of fixed and adjustable shelves (please visit to see). £15.00 each or £10.00 each for 2 or £30.00 for all four.
FROM WHEN WE SOLD SECONDHAND / EX-WARTIME BINOCULARS...etc
Four standard camera tripods £5.00 each
Two massive tripods £50.00 each
Tripod mount, 20Kg (yes, 20kg!) £150.00.
Boxes of straps / mounts / accessories / tripod adaptors 50p or £1.00 each
Copy of WWII German code book, 3-letter codes for makers of equipment (200 pages?) £5.00.
Large CCTV lenses + lenses, prisms, eyepieces from military binoculars and gunsights £5.00 each
About 20 torches (they were actually for our own use, because our current office has no windows)...but the new office has windows (luxury!) £1.00 each or 50p if you let us keep the batteries.
Pocket watches, three silver, one 8-day, plus 4 movements, £30.00
8 boxes of watch parts - not parts from dismantled watches! These are new / boxed (they probably date from the 1960s) including boxes of screws for movements. £15.00.
OFFICE FURNITURE & EQUIPMENT
Small fan heater £3.00
Large industrial electric heater £5.00
We also have 5 storage/oil-filled heaters, we cannot use our own heaters in the new unit, some of them will be for sale once we have moved.
Our current unit has three rooms and a warehouse but only 10 electrical sockets, so we are using about 8 extension leads. We won't be needing these because the new unit has 30 electrical sockets.
Fridge £20.00 (but not yet...the milk will go off); tea trolley £5.00.
23cm Computer monitor £5.00
Warehouse pick-bins 50p each (we have a few hundred, some of them are certain to be surplus to requirements once we have moved)
Wooden folding steps £5.00
2 metal folding steps £5.00 each
Large glass-fronted cabinet 1m X 1m X 40cm, £20.00
Box files 50p each; upright mesh paper-holders £1.00 each
Several stacks plastic draws (most will go)
2 X sets of metal shelves £5.00 each
2 rolls carpet £10.00 for both. One measures 84cm X 130cm, the other measures 260cm X 186cm. Heavy duty, left over from when they re-carpeted some of the industrial units.
There will be more office furniture and equipment once we have moved in December. The new warehouse is larger than the old, but the office is smaller.
Here are just a few of the items listed above, click/tap to see the photo in high-res. (so that you can zoom right in):
(Scroll down for photos of the cabinets)
NEW STOCK
'SPECIALS' (NOT ON WEB SITE):
Two workbench sets incl. clamp, mandrel etc for rounding / sizing rings. £10.00 each.(not on web site).
FOR SERIOUS RE-SELLERS ONLY:
Hand reader, large, adjustable, with four lights, ref. 2X-80X80 £50.00 per carton of 50.
Large magnet ref. ref. ref. mag-sp-fe-47X22X10 £75.00 per box of 500