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michelleice

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so i have this and I'm thinking of selling it 2 bed house 2 kids (3 if u count OH) and 1 on way I'm running out of space so I'm selling a old saddle i have sitting in storage (i must be only person with saddle rack in there kitchen cupboard(big cupboard)

its 17inch leather saddle no name (think its pig leather but not sure)
how much? pics show some damage

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No idea but I tend to find that if you stick things on ebay at 99p and get it to end on a Sunday night when everyone is clicking, you'll get all the watchers thinking 'ooh I could do with a saddle like that if it stays that cheap' and consequently they all go mad at the last minute and pay ££ above it's worth. I'd give it a good clean and polish up and do some really nice pictures without your feet (esp if you have a nice horse to sit it on or have an old photo of it in use, they'll look at the horse not the saddle)
 
Tis more the shadows/over exposure from the light at the sides is distracting, your feet actually look fine! I'd crop the top picture to just the saddle - cut out your washing, or maybe remove that towel from the line, move the saddle along the fence and re-take so it's viewed against the plain bright wall/fence with the sun on it as a background, more of a contrast will make it look better.
2nd picture I'd retake so there's good contrast and try not to get the overexposure on the left from the sun
The bottom picture particularly if you cleaned and polished the saddle up a lot of the scratches on the edge would disappear. I reckon if you timed it right you could do quite nicely with people thinking 'ooh a cheap saddle, that looks OK' even though it's not got masses of 'worth'
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Good luck!
 
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