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I just went through the entire auction results on my phone while sitting at the dog park and somehow I missed seeing the Idelia. I don't have time to look again. What did it realize?

Michael Schlick,

Thank you and the others who attended the auction for sharing some of the live experiences. It is very difficult to get into the swing of things while starring at a computer screen.

I purchased three items and would not call any of them a deal worth bragging about but certainly welcome additions to my collection. I will honor them and ensure that I insert a note into each describing their providence - starting with your father.

I was happy to see and hear the auction live as it does add a lot when we can remotely hear the auctioneers descriptions and judge the bidding. I hope that Donelly's is able to swing the live feed as I am already starting to save my money for the next round.

Bruce

I was wondering if anyone on the forum won lot 1184 - Edison Standard 2-clip Suitcase Phonograph, or if anyone knows who did? I would like to talk to them about it.

Rich Gordon

JohnM wrote:I just went through the entire auction results on my phone while sitting at the dog park and somehow I missed seeing the Idelia. I don't have time to look again. What did it realize?

$11,000. Further back in this thread there are pictures. It's a really nice example. That has to be the steal of the sale, although some other very nice machines went incredibly inexpensively.

Well, I confess...I went up to $12.500 on the Berliner JS. $40K + all the trimmings is a HUGE amount of money for a machine like that.... . The price the Berliner hand-wind realized ($26K +) made me feel good. However, I feel better owning one than having the money.....if that makes any sense... .
Not too surprised to see the realized prices achieved on some of the rare museum quality pieces that were offered.

"I was wondering if anyone on the forum won lot 1184 - Edison Standard 2-clip Suitcase Phonograph, or if anyone knows who did? I would like to talk to them about it.

Rich Gordon"


Rich,
I hope whoever was high bidder on lot 1184 realized that both the tops of the bedplate posts for the carriage rod were broken off. This would be almost impossible to repair.
Ken

Larry was one of my 'mentors' when I was a young teenager starting out in the hobby in the early 60s. We corresponded a lot and he was a great help to me.

It was great fun reconnecting with him 45 years later at Union.

The attached article is still in my scrapbook; I think it was published in 1963. I thought people might enjoy looking at the picture and seeing some of the same machines that were in the auction. This was certainly one of the oldest intact collections to go on the market in recent times.

Larry was a wonderful and generous man.

Thanks for posting the great early article on Larry Schlick. Do you know what paper or magazine this is from? It would be interesting to be able to read the whole article.
Ken B.

That was from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune of October 6, 1963. The other collectors featured were Nels Peterson, William J. Kugler, and Warren Dreke.

I don't remember what year Larry sent this Christmas card. I sure wish I could have gotten the machine in the auction, but it was WAY beyond me.

That is a great pic/ postcard of the Berliner JS. I did not make it out to the auction, but watched and bid online. I had no problems bidding online. I was able to purchase 3 of the 5 lots that I was interested in, and was the highest under bidder on the other 2. I definitely did not get in on any deals. However, I was thrilled to add a few very rare pieces to my collection that rarely come up for sale. While I didn't win the treadle Graphophone, as the high under bidder I feel it brought a deserving high price and it was fun to imagine the possibility of owning it for several days before the auction. Had I kept bidding who knows how much higher it would have gone. There were several great deals (the Edison Idelia, Johnson/ Berliner style 4, the Edison Class M, and Ratchet Wind Berliner to name a few). While I, like many of us kick myself for not trying to get in on some of these bargains, it occurs to me what determines the final auction has little to do with what the winning bidder is willing to pay, but rather what the under bidder is willing to pay. With that in mind if any of us had tried to get in on these great deals the price would have ratcheted up and likely to the point where they weren't such great deals. So I congratulate everyone who was able to nab one of these great deals.