The Thousand-Dollar Q?

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The Thousand-Dollar Q?

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Just ran across this item on Craigslist:

http://newhaven.craigslist.org/atq/3991578335.html

Never mind the overly optimistic price; I'm puzzled by that reproducer.

It looks as if it were gutta-percha, but there's no writing on it, and the style is all wrong (as far as I know).

Does anyone know whether Columbia made later style reproducers in gutta-percha or ebonite?

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I believe someone simply painted the Q's reproducer. I don't recall ever having seen that done before!

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The reproducer is painted black, the back of the case has the shield decal, and the mandrel tag is missing. I say this machine is from 1906.I wish the seller lots of luck to get $1,000 for a Q.
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I've seen better machines sell for $350-$400...

What a dreamer... It's also missing the Patent insert as well that goes inside the end of the mandrel..

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That's nothing. Check out the 100,000 dollar Brunswick

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1917-Brunswick- ... 4175d94ed5

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Post by NEFaurora »

Wow... What a crack addict... He can't be serious.. That's a $300 machine. I've actually passed up two of those in near mint shape in the past...

Go figure.

I think that they hope that someone from Asia with deep pockets will buy it.....but $100,000?? Please..

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