MAGNETO ?

When we lived at Penobscot Ranch there were so many things left there that were so intriguing to me. I am a "Junkie" I love old rusty stuff. There was tons of old rusty stuff left behind. The ranch had been run by caretakers for many years and then of course Ad Long became ill and was not able to tend to the Ranch. So lots of rusty tools, junk, wire and some very interesting things to me were mine now that I owned the Penobscot. There was a welder made out of a world war II aircraft generator, I recognized it because it was a popular thing to do after the war. There were lots of surplus aircraft parts on the market and a welder could be made from one of these generators. There was an oil furnace burner without the furnace, I never could do anything with that one. There was a large whole house blower that probably went with the furnace, I still have that. It is such a treasure I cannot part with it, but have never been able to use it for a single thing. Some of the things were large and saleable as I have mentioned earlier and we sold them to pay the taxes etc, but the small insignificant rusty items pretty much stayed and rusted more, however there was this magneto a small two cylinder one that was very appealing to me and I kept it in a special place as I thought some day I might be able to use it on a baler or build a small go cart or get a large stationary engine with two cylinders an I would surely be able to use it. Of course that never happened and so when we moved up here in the forest it was one of the things that came along with us. One day I decided to sell it at the flea market and none of the local collectors even knew what it was. "What is that" was one question asked.
I decided to sell it on Craigslist and  I did not get one call. I looked on E-bay and guess what? I found one going for $162.00 that was not complete! WOW. It was a JEWEL! I decided I had a jewel and I would list it on E-bay as soon as possible. It took awhile before I got around to listing it, but when I did there was not much action lots of lookers but no bidders then lo and behold  I got an e-mail from a person from Australia who was on holiday in San Francisco, he offered a big price. The hook was the person was leaving in a week and how could we do this ? It takes a week for the money to clear pay pal. In a week's time this person would be in Australia. I called my grandson Mike in Concord and he agreed concord was half way but they were having a party that night and the timing was bad. I contacted E-bay about what I could do so I would not violate the E-bay rules. I was advised to terminate the sale, so I did, now I did not have the magneto listed on E-bay and the person's name and address was lost. The magneto is still safely in my possession and I will list it  as a Jewel again one of these days when I am more familiar with the rules of E-bay.