I came across this ad on eBay today from 1942.
What is interesting is that the handle is somewhat like a caricature of the actual handle used at the time.
Notice that the shape is somewhat cartoonish as compared to the actual handle, and it only has one screw, not two. Here is the actual handle for comparison.
If you aren’t familiar with our revereware.org site, it takes all the Revere Ware listings from eBay organizes them into categories and sorts items by size. 
We recently made some improvements to better handle the larger and larger number of listings for Revere Ware on eBay carried there. It wasn’t too long ago that the total number of Revere Ware items on eBay surpassed 10,000 listings, and now it is almost at 13,000!
If your technically curious, the problem we ran into is that eBay only allows up to 100 pages of listings to be downloaded by their programming interface, and a maximum of 100 items per page, meaning, it was cutting us off at 10,000 items. We had to break the search into smaller parts, by price, to be able to run two overall queries and get all the items listed.
Not ones to slouch, we also fixed a bug that didn’t show the correct number of items in some categories, and remove more of those annoying listings that list our parts from Amazon.com on eBay but at a higher price.
So enjoy!
I got my dose of humor this morning finding a couple of listings for our parts on eBay. If you aren’t familiar with drop-shipping arbitrage, it is the practice where people take items for sale off Amazon.com, for example, and list it on eBay for a higher price. When someone places on order on eBay, they simply execute an order on Amazon.com for the item, thus, getting Amazon.com to “drop-ship” the order for them.
We don’t like the practice at all and have tried reporting these sellers to eBay, as this is a violation of eBay’s policies. It inflates the price to the buyer, the buyer has no possibility of getting support from us, and we believe the practice results in a higher number of returns that affect our standing with Amazon.com.
Other than that, they are great! 🙂
The first thing I found humorous about the two listings is that they cut off the full title of the product, which makes them rather confusing:
To top that, they chose to replace the actual description with these very interesting one liners.
Trade gasket? Venerate?
I’m not sure what fusing two sets actually does.
