Question on Etsy

[sienamystic]

If any of you have the time, please head over to my Etsy shop and let me know what you think about the 19th century envelopes. Would you buy them at that price? Are they genuinely cool and should I put up more of them? (I have more. Lots more.)

Comments

[froggy-dear.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not your market, but I think they are ultra cool and it seems like a reasonable price for the number. Depending on how many you have, you could also put up larger lots where the price per envelope decreases slightly. It might better suit other etsy producers who want to reuse them. But, like I said, I'm not a market for the envelopes.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness! Yeah, I'll put a couple of larger lots up, or maybe indicate somehow that I have more. I hope I get a few nibbles.

[cata-clysmiic.livejournal.com]

They're beautiful! Seems like a great price to me.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness! I couldn't find anything online about how to price them, so I'm totally guessing.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Yes to all three questions! Where did you find these? They're fabulous.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Heh, I attended a workshop about...geez, eight or ten years ago, on museum collections and fire damage. Museums were invited to bring objects that would be put in the little room that was set on fire, and we'd then be able to see how they fared. A museum brought a ton of these envelopes that weren't part of their collection, and put them in acid free boxes and set them in the room to be set ablaze. They weathered the fire quite nicely, and we were allowed to take as many as we wanted to, since they had no expectations of bringing them back!

[froggy-dear.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble conceptually with a museum burning anything of potential historical import. I get a bit faint... Of course, people wrote a lot more letters then.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember one of them saying that they still had thousands of these empty envelopes, so I expect they aren't considered of much historical import.

If I had a need for such things, I would think them very reasonable

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

but I don't. I do know a collage artist, and will mention them.

Re: If I had a need for such things, I would think them very reasonable

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Thankee! I've been keeping them for ages, and while I'll keep a few for myself (a small number of them have letters inside), and I've used a few in art projects, I might as well sell a few.