EMG gramophone

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Steve wrote: Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:40 am
emgcr wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:08 pm I shall be at Prescott as usual and will be delighted to seek you out Iain. The weather forecast is none too good so pack a brolly !
Are you going both days or just Sat or Sun? As it's not far from me, I was thinking of going, purely as a spectator!
Both days. I usually park my fawn Vauxhall (PX 10) overlooking Orchard from inside the paddock. It would be great to meet up.

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" Auctioneer has chosen not to publish the price of this lot "

Why does an auction house do that?

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neilmack wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:44 am " Auctioneer has chosen not to publish the price of this lot "

Why does an auction house do that?
£8000 plus comms.

And to answer your question, it's so companies like Invaluable and Worthpoint can charge us heaps of money via online subscriptions so we can simply look this stuff up for reference in the future.

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Steve wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:50 am
neilmack wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:44 am " Auctioneer has chosen not to publish the price of this lot "

Why does an auction house do that?
£8000 plus comms.

And to answer your question, it's so companies like Invaluable and Worthpoint can charge us heaps of money via online subscriptions so we can simply look this stuff up for reference in the future.
£10880 including the eye watering 36% auction fees. Both the hammer price and the fees must be near record levels.
Even so, the buyer now has a much better machine, with a known history, than that overpriced HMV202 discussed elsewhere.
One would have thought that publishing (and no doubt taking the credit for) the high sale price would benefit the auctioneers more than the money generated by only making it available to subscribers.

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Wow... that's a lot of money... But, it's an unique gramophone !

Do you also know for how much the Berliner gramophone was sold ?

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Calle wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 6:23 pm Wow... that's a lot of money... But, it's an unique gramophone !

Do you also know for how much the Berliner gramophone was sold ?
£5000 plus commission so £6800 in total. I was the underbidder!

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Who took Ian's Emg...? Can it be known? Somebody well known...? Any friend collector? A dealer? An eccentric millionaire from Niza? A serious Japanese?
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Inigo wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 5:02 am Who took Ian's Emg...? Can it be known? Somebody well known...? Any friend collector? A dealer? An eccentric millionaire from Niza? A serious Japanese?
I did!

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My god,,! So it went to a good place then...! ;)
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Thanks Steve !
It was a really nice and good looking machine that Berliner 👍

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