Unseend buys things that are not made any more, and sells them one at a time.
What that means in practice
Sometimes a whole collection at once — forty years of somebody's cameras, bought together because that is how they were kept. More often a single object, found because somebody was clearing a house.
Either way it is photographed, tested, written up and put here. There is one of each. When it goes, it goes.
Why the pages are written the way they are
Buying something old from a photograph is an act of trust, and most shops ask for that trust without earning it. A grade out of ten tells you nothing. A word like excellent tells you what the seller hoped you would think.
So every object has two paragraphs instead: how it looks, and how it works. Both in plain words, both naming what was actually checked. Where something has not been tested, the page says so rather than going quiet.
What we will not say
That an object is rare, unless we can show it. That it survived, as though it had been through a war rather than a cupboard. That it is the last one, the only one, or going fast.
The years on the page are the years. The photographs are of that object and no other.
Where things come from
Most objects arrive with no story, and those pages simply have no story on them. Occasionally somebody is willing to be named, and then there is a paragraph with their first name in it — because a thing that was kept for forty years was kept by somebody.
Who runs it
[TO WRITE — one paragraph, first person, no biography.]