Last night I told my wife that while everyone was watching the Superbowl (I'm not a sports fan), I was going shopping on eBay. In my search, I found a magnificent unrestored but clean Model F Triumph that had been listed just a short time earlier. It had an oak cygnet horn, O reproducer, and sat on its original drawer-front cylinder cabinet with carved claw feet that was chock full of assorted cylinders. I saw at least one maroon opera box in a photo of one of the open drawers. Something highly unusual . . . the umbrella signature/Trade Mark decal that is typically on the front carriage support casting was instead affixed to the rear casting! The whole shooting match had a Buy It Now of $3500. I told my wife I was buying something on eBay. She asked, "What?" I replied, "I'll tell you as soon as I hit the Buy It Now button." I hit the button, the page reloaded and . . . I wasn't the buyer!!! Someone else must have hit it a second ahead of me. It took me a couple of hours to get over my disappointment. Did anyone happen to see that beautiful Triumph? The seller was unwilling to ship, so on the bright side, it saved me a trip to New Jersey! John From [email protected] Mon Feb 4 16:07:49 2008 From: [email protected] (Merle Sprinzen) Date: Mon Feb 4 16:12:14 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] Idelia on eBay Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Item number 200195851628. I'm very suspicious about the bidding pattern. Looks like h**9 stopped at just the time he knew the winner had maxed out his bid. This is exactly the reason I use "esnipe" to place my bids. On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:40:16 -0800 Peter Fraser <[email protected]> writes: > Missed that! Does anyone have the item number? > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- Peter > [email protected] > > On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Guess y'all saw that the Idelia on eBay sold for $31,100. Nice > > machine and price, but not quite as nice as the one Guido sold > just > > two years ago this month for $41,100. The market may be soft, but > > > rare machines are doing ok, as always. > > > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > > Phono-L mailing list > > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > From [email protected] Mon Feb 4 16:21:56 2008 From: [email protected] ([email protected]) Date: Mon Feb 4 16:22:21 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] Idelia on eBay References: <[email protected]> <001c01c8677e$25452d90$c801a...@albert> Message-ID: <000b01c8678d$1f86d980$6101a...@wilenzick> I would like to see production numbers as well. However, Terry Baer, who has done considerable research into known Ideals/Idelias, said last year that his records indicated some 59 machines in existence today. This breaks down into 21 Ideals, 10 model B Idelias, 1 C, 22 D's, and 5 E's. Perhaps he knows of more now, including the one that just sold. So these machines really are not all that rare after all. But as we all know, rarity does not necessarily correlate with value or desirability. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Idelia on eBay > They cannot be that rare. There are at least four of them here in Oregon, > and most of the collections out of state I have viewed have one. I sure > would like to see production numbers. Albert > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Idelia on eBay > > >> BREKAS AUCTION A FEW YEARS AGO SOLD ONE FOR 40 K ALSO >> HOW MANY OF US HAVE idelias out of curiousity >> i know terry baer did a study on them >> zono >> >> >> In a message dated 2/4/2008 12:14:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> Guess y'all saw that the Idelia on eBay sold for $31,100. Nice machine >> and >> price, but not quite as nice as the one Guido sold just two years ago >> this >> month for $41,100. The market may be soft, but rare machines are doing >> ok, as >> always. >> >> Ray >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> >> >> >> >> **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. >> (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 >> 48) >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >
