By the way, has anyone noticed that the seller used thumb tacks to support his priceless decal in order to photograph it!!!! Each of those holes should knock the value down at least a couple thousand dollars per hole!!!!! ;-)
Jeff Wisconsin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Dazer Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:14 AM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: RE: [Phono-L] Why hasn't anyone bid? I bet if it did sell for thousands we would all see another one pop up on Ebay in short order! Seems like nothing is really rare anymore. Dave Steven Medved <[email protected]> wrote: I would guess $50 to $100 because it is not in very good condition, and what would you do with it, mount it on glass? There are a lot of items out there that are not commonly seen, I saw photos of one collection where the guy had beautiful Edison advertisements that I did not know existed. I do not feel bad for him, I searched for about three years before I found phono info and that was before the days of the computer and only because I wanted to collect. In the day of easy information access there is no excuse for such monumental foolishness. You are correct, who would want a wrinkled decal bad enough to pay over $5000 and no matter what his reserve if he started it out at $1.00 he would see what it was worth. Something makes me think that, even if the decal is exactly what this guysays, and let's assume that we could prove if it is the only one left, andthen taking into account that such a decal back in the day was probably notuncommon, it just seems that the value of such a thing could not exceed manyhundreds of dollars to perhaps a few thousand?_______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org From [email protected] Thu May 17 07:55:44 2007 From: [email protected] (Andrew Baron) Date: Thu May 17 07:56:27 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Why hasn't anyone bid? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> This truly annoyed me as well. The same flattening of the artifact for the photo could have easily been accomplished without puncture wounds by trapping the top under the edge of the thumb tacks, with two thumbtacks to retain it at the top and one or two at the bottom, and no holes required. You have to wonder about someone who thinks he has something so valuable, an amazing survivor of a century's time, having come along all those years intact, and he puts two holes in it. Woof. Andy Baron On May 17, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Jeffry Young, D.O. wrote: > By the way, has anyone noticed that the seller used thumb tacks to > support his priceless decal in order to photograph it!!!! Each of > those > holes should knock the value down at least a couple thousand > dollars per > hole!!!!! ;-) > > Jeff > Wisconsin From [email protected] Thu May 17 08:16:01 2007 From: [email protected] (Peter Fraser) Date: Thu May 17 08:17:07 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Why hasn't anyone bid? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> i was preparing to bid, had sold off some of my properties to raise the capital, and was doing some last minute spot-financing when i also noticed the thumbtacks. so i'll not be bidding, after all. On May 17, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Andrew Baron wrote: > This truly annoyed me as well. The same flattening of the artifact > for the photo could have easily been accomplished without puncture > wounds by trapping the top under the edge of the thumb tacks, with > two thumbtacks to retain it at the top and one or two at the > bottom, and no holes required. > > You have to wonder about someone who thinks he has something so > valuable, an amazing survivor of a century's time, having come > along all those years intact, and he puts two holes in it. > > Woof. > > Andy Baron > > > On May 17, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Jeffry Young, D.O. wrote: > >> By the way, has anyone noticed that the seller used thumb tacks to >> support his priceless decal in order to photograph it!!!! Each of >> those >> holes should knock the value down at least a couple thousand >> dollars per >> hole!!!!! ;-) >> >> Jeff >> Wisconsin > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
