Good info, thanks Steve. I would think that the 350 to 450 range for the good condition and NOS status. I will trust that the seller knows how to verify the NOS status. The rest looks like a couple of guys who were bound and determined to have it. There will be more. Buyers that lack patience pay a high premium on ebay.
Rich On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:56:19 -0500, Steven Medved wrote: >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.
