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Yep.
It’s sturdy, it’s spiral, and it may or may not go to Heaven. It kind of depends on where you place it, I suppose. And, of course, staring at it head on feels like entering a time portal, so there’s that.

SOLD!
Aspiring strip club proprietors take note: these aluminum poles probably don’t lend themselves to your business endeavors. But if you’re putting up a fence they’re just the thing!

This 1940 Mason & Hamlin baby grand piano (including bench, felted piano cover, and piano dolly), may have some superficial, cosmetic issues, but its heart is strong, tuneful, and surprising. Serial # 49328. As piano enthusiasts know, Mason & Hamlins are rare pianos. The company makes no more than 350 per year with it patented internal workings. You would be hard-pressed to find one available online for less than the $20k range. We know from Condon Hall, the original home of this piano, that a $6,000.00 refinishing was performed in 1993. Says a longtime Condon Hall staffer, “Many pianists have used this instrument, who were at first put off because of it’s cosmetic condition, that is, until they played it. They couldn’t believe the quality of its sound.”

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Do you think Jacob Marley would have shown up at Ebeneezer Scrooge’s house wearing all those annoying chains if he’d had a desk lamp like this one? I mean, lumps of coal to stay warm are nice and all, but look, this lamp is swanky.

SOLD!
Yeah, it’s a bowling trophy featuring a person kicking a ball. How bad do you have to be at bowling to win that? And how much must your feet hurt?

SOLD!
Invited to a black-tie event but hate tying the tie? Worry no more—we’ve got several black clip-on ties (but of course). No one is going to wring your neck while grabbing these!

PRICE FURTHER REDUCED!
Beter get ta’ steppin’! And this Precor USA Model C764 electric step machine is a great place to start your journey to nowhere but Muscular Leg Land. It beeps and lights up and shows graphs that look like the best Light Brite you ever saw—it’s like exercising while blasting off into 1970s space! Note: An electronic oddness—the program-setting seems to cut out at the half-way point.

04/01/2011
Dateline: Seattle—“Quackie,” the formerly placid and lovable duck friend of the UW Surplus Store at their dockside Boat Street location flew into a laser-fueled conniption-fit-rage late Friday upon learning that the source of so many free meals had moved locations to the Plant Services Building “clear the quack across the quacking campus.” After some additional yelling about fume hoods, orange tags, and the soaring price of duck feed, Quackie blew up the Bryants building with laser eye canons no one previously knew it had. Luckily, no one was hurt in the ensuing explosion and fireball, as all the really good stuff made it to the Plant Services Building beforehand.

Recently, we rang up our 50,000th transaction at the UW Surplus Store, and our lucky/ startled winner was James Hayes, whose purchase happened to be his first with us! Happily, we didn’t scare him away, and he’s become a repeat customer. To show our appreciation, we’re giving him this frankly exotic gift basket brimming with UW Surplus-logoed merchandise: some of the best umbrellas the northwest has to offer, necessarily outstanding tall coffee mugs, clips, clamps, tape measures, water bottles, oh my! Our next milestone will be # 75,000 … maybe it will be you!

>>>PRICE REDUCED EVEN FURTHER! 02/17/2012<<<
Item # 32533-2. Baldwin grand piano. 1959. Some keys do not play. Will need tuning.

>>>PRICE REDUCED! 02/17/2012<<<
This grand piano by William Knabe & Co. comes from the ongoing Mercer Hall demolition project and is looking for a new home. Superficial scratches/ blemishes but in otherwise fine condition. Includes matching piano bench. All you need is some polish … and probably a candelabra.

ONLY 10 BOOKS LEFT IN STOCK!
Looking for an ideal holiday gift for the Husky fans in your lives? We’ve got 3 pallets of this great hardcover book, Husky Stadium by W. Thomas Porter and Jim Daves that’s full of great photos and stories! And at just $10.00 each, you can nab a bunch!

Whether “Squirrel Nut” or otherwise, we’ve got yer zippers right here! “My name is Sylvia Stickles, and I’ve got THE ITCH!”

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This lovely matted, signed, and framed UW campus art print is by Christopher Paul Bollen. Ideal for the Husky in your life!

“”How do you put a ‘ree-fyooze’ into a can?” asks our favorite ridiculous questions asker. “Ref-yoos,” we sass back.
Bullet canisters and black open-can just $5.00 each. The larger rolling container is available for $10.00.

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It seems too good to be true! Jahn masonry repair in a bucket!

Not sure what else to say about this. It is, indeed, an old condom dispenser, and it sports what we can only call a worrisome “health” info sticker that indicates it kills the virus that causes AIDS. Did people really believe that at one time, because: yikes, people.

She was a wee duckling last year, and she makes regular re-visits for yum-yums at our dock door. While she hasn’t told us her name, we feel certain she’s a Huskies fan, as she has the good taste to know where to get a good deal at UW Surplus Stores, of course. She’ll beak at our office door and quack until one of us opens up with some oatmeal for her. A few weeks ago when we had a long line of Public Store customers waiting for us to open, she waddled up and down the line entertaining/ surveying everyone.

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Nothing says “Summer’s on its way” quite like a plug-in plastic penguin, and we just happen to have one that works!

3 Left!
“”What do you do with these in the pool? They don’t even float.”

Now in our May 12th live auction!!
While March of The Rolling Mop Ringer Buckets never quite matched the popularity of March of The Penguins, Morgan Freeman’s narration still brings a tear to my eye. They grow up so fast . . .

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As you can see, his name is Gary. He is a shy Pisces and surrounded with cement. THIS JUST IN: We now know that Gary has a working combination, too!

Prices Reduced!
From The Don James Center comes this unusual collection of UW Husky athlete photo boards featuring men’s and women’s basketball players & coaches from UW’s storied sports history. The average size of these photo boards is approximately 7’ x 3’ with some that are quite heavy. A great chance to nab some Huksy sports history!

Evidently we’ve been tagged by a very small thug, and we understand that the Office Supplies section is now the defended turf of The Cribs.
Actually, I just found this random tiny shoe tied to the shelf this morning and knew I couldn’t not take a picture of it. That’s just how we roll, boo.