Well, there's likely the problem.
I can tell you from experience, I buy (used to, not anymore) a lot of antique steam related items in ''good used condition'', I would get it and it either needed serious repair or it had obvious damage that was purposely hidden in the pictures. I'm not saying you're guilty of that, but when aspects of an item that would substantially devalue it are clearly missing from the item description and pictures, don't blame the buyer for objecting.
I got so fed up, I don't buy anything off of ebay anymore. The best was a ships clock and all the pictures were taken straight on of the face. It was a real good buy, I received it and the whole case was gone, it was just a face bezel and movement, no case.
Ron
I know I sound like one of those troublesome buyers, I usually wound up eating it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of returning it and I can repair about anything.
Here are a few more for instances:
Stanley fuel automatic housing, someone had opened it up and tried to bore it out for a larger spring, blew the boring bar right through the side of the casting. It was from Australia and didn't want to pay the return shipping of about 70 dollars. Seller hid that in the pictures.
Lunkenheimer steam whistle (about $300) someone had repaired the valve seat with bondo, worked on air, would have never worked with steam, I was able to re-machine the seat.
Those little Neverout sidelamps, I had several of them, they are made from thin brass and fragile, I received one and someone rammed it in small box and it looked like a football, needless to say the lamp was badly damaged, I used it for parts. The font, glass etc.
One was a brass bollard off of an antique boat, someone removed it (stole it) with a hack saw? They sawed right through the base of it on an angle, hid that in the pictures, I brazed it up and repaired.
Penberthy injector "in working condition", parts were missing out of the inside, converging nozzle etc. luckily I had spare parts to fix it.
I had many instances similar to the above, finally I tossed in the towel on Ebay.