Hi Rich, As always any corrections or suggestions are welcome. I would have guessed $400 on this one because it is a square weight NOS, but this may be meaningless to most people. I have seen a common model C sell for $200 and a model C weight sell for over $79, but I have never seen a reproducer oversell by this much. I track Edison reproducer sales on eBay and this is my opinion, even if I knew it was the only NOS square weight I would still have the same opinion. Some reproducers are harder to find like the gold and antique finish Dance and the square weight Edisonic and this is the first square weight NOS Edisonic I have seen. I agree that the nickel Edisonic is not as common, most of the ones I have seen are gold or antique. This is serial number F-75662-NS which means that Edison converted it over from a regular reproducer to an Edisonic. For $6.75 plus your old reproducer Edison would give you an Edisonic, saving you $12.75 off of the $19.50 cost of the Edisonic. Edison then took the old reproducer and installed a larger limit loop, the thicker diaphragm and the new heavy weight. Since this one has a high serial number I would guess that Edison converted it from unsold stock. The early square weight Edisonic is harder to find than the Dance in my experience. One of the antique finish Edisonic reproducers I have is F 80885 NS while my antique finish square weight is F 79001 NS. I do not know if all the square weights were converted ones, but they are harder to find. I read that when Edison went out of business in 1929 a San Francisco dealer threw his entire stock into the bay, except for some NOS Edisonic reproducers that were rescued and sold for years. Rare items such as NOS keep going up in value and does anyone else knows of an NOS square weight nickel Edisonic? I know of about 5 round weight NOS ones. When it got to $700 I was not too surprised as NOS things are becoming harder and harder to find, but after that the bidding seemed to be a war. I think the war crowed out other bidders as my bid of $125 was not expected to take it. I am happy for the seller and he did do an excellent ad. Perhaps now would be a good time to put a NOS Edisonic on eBay since there appears to be a person who wants one very badly. I wonder if the buyer knows the differences in Edison reproducers. Below I have included some interesting info: Edison reproducers have letters before the serial numbers: LG is long playEM is one with Duncan stopLD is the Danceno letters & A to F Regular DD reproducerEdison started out with just numbers and when he got so high (999999) he started over with an A and worked his way up. NS before the serial number EdisonicNS after the serial number Converted Edisonic I have never seen such a bad case of "gotta-have-its", but you got that right. I enjoy your posts and thanks. Steve > > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Am I missing something here> > Nickle is not the common finish but it is not that uncommon. Maybe a case of two people with a > real bad case of the "gotta-have-its" and a rich relative who just left them a lot of money.> > Rich> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:20:36 +1100, [email protected] wrote: From [email protected] Thu Nov 30 17:19:25 2006 From: [email protected] (Rich) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:12:06 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] Am I missing something here In-Reply-To: <009701c714e1$b0140e50$0200a...@daddell> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
In these cases the seller just hopes that the buyer completes the deal. Of course now will be the time to go shopping for Edisonic reproducers for as you say this will smoke them out of the woodwork. Rich On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:43:15 -0500, Walt Sommers wrote: >eBay rarely seems to rarely reflect reality - it is a statistician's worst >nightmare because it is the very definition of "skewed data". Something like >this would never grow to such a price at Stanton's or some other *real* >auction (eBay is a venue...) Originally designed as a PEZ machine >marketplace, who would have ever figured you would see something like that >$12,000-plus Amet that popped up a few years ago and a seller had ZERO clue >what he even was selling. >It seems like what often happens after things like this is that everybody >and his brother lists theirs on eBay to cash in on someone else's good >fortune and then by the 3rd or 4th one, the price shrinks back to something >more fathomable as touching some sense of realism. Then it goes cold for a >year or two and happens again. Didn't this occur fairly recently with some >late Edison DDs or BAs? And now the prices have cooled back down (and half >the people wish they would have kept them after it is all said and done >anyway). >I agree - it is exciting to watch (particularly if it is me that is the >seller). >W
