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Over the break I went to this flea market and while I was there I bought these cool looking padlocks, they looked pretty old and they were cheap so I bough all four of them for $10. When I got home I looked at them more carefully and I noticed that two of them had “Made for O.S.U.” engraved on them and both of those locks also had two key holes. I did some research and I found out that people collect padlocks and stuff like that and after looking at a few collectors websites I saw the exact same padlocks that I had. I found out that the two non OSU ones weren’t really worth anything but an O.S.U. lock that looked exactly the same except for the serial numbers sold last year on ebay for $85. I was pretty excited when I saw that so now I have to decide what I want to do. They’re cool locks but I’d rather have $170 than two padlocks. The two that I have might actually be worth more money because the one that sold on ebay came with a new key that was made by a locksmith rather than the original key and both of mine have what I believe are the original keys. I know I want to sell them but the question is, how? I’m going to sell them on ebay but I don’t know if I should sell them together or separately. They may be worth more as a set but I might get more money if I sell them one at a time. Any suggestions?