Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:34 am
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Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
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Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horm and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:55 am
Looks to me as it has certainly been refinished, and the decal is poorly applied.
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horm and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:30 pm
Even so, it is worth the money. The cabinet and decal could be refinished to your taste. An all-original machine could cost you 5 or 6 thousand dollars. Is originality worth that kind of price difference? For some people, yes, and for some people, no.edisonphonoworks wrote:Looks to me as it has certainly been refinished, and the decal is poorly applied.
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:05 pm
I agree. A wooden Music Master cygnet horn alone is probably worth around $1000. That leaves $1200 for a machine like that. Not a bad deal at all.
Andreas
Andreas
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:31 pm
It would probably cost $1200 for postage from Sydney...
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:33 pm
Naah, just put it in your hand luggage.Curt A wrote:It would probably cost $1200 for postage from Sydney...
Airport Security would have a ball. 
Andreas
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:31 pm
Especially if it has a patina of bomb residue!alang wrote:Naah, just put it in your hand luggage.Curt A wrote:It would probably cost $1200 for postage from Sydney...
Andreas
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:52 pm
Andreas, I think the airfare and the time to fly to Sydney and back would be even more prohibitive, never mind security...alang wrote:Naah, just put it in your hand luggage.Curt A wrote:It would probably cost $1200 for postage from Sydney...
Andreas
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:55 pm
Not prohibitive at all, if you make a vacation out of it.
Re: Oak Opera with Oak Horn and Tigereye Striping for $2200?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:50 am
This is why we need teleportation technology.....
Bill
Bill