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http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 1689954358 Someone has listed a 44" brass horn on eBay for $2999. The description says that it is "exceptionally rare" but is it really worth $2999?

There was also a seller this week who had an ordinary empty Edison Gold Molded cylinder box list for $75. Some people are, alas, clueless.

Clay

And someone on Craigslist near me is listing one blue Amberol record for $120. No title listed of course...

I guess most people are under the assumption that just because it's old it's worth lots of money. A couple of years ago I saw an ordinary Columbia Graphonola listed for $1000 on Craigslist and the discription said it was a rare 1894 Columbia victrola.

This seems to happen often - - to me at least. I see something I really like. This horn is pretty cool, both in its geometry and the hanger. I wouldn't mind adding it to my collection. Then the price... It's so rare anymore that I find something I'd like to buy, but when I finally do, the guy has it priced ten times its market value... and it feels like I've been through this many, many times...

George P.

And then there were the folks that sold the Class M Edison for $300 on craigslist about 80 miles from me a year or so ago.. They told me "They knew it was really rare and valuable so don't waste our time with any lowball offers" I know the guy that got it bought. Ha! Stupid me and them I guess. But it took me less than a minute on the internet to get a few values on the thing. I figured if they were smart enough to post an ad with a few pictures, they should know how to do a simple internet search. It had 5-6 reproducers and recorders with it and half a dozen listening tubes as well.

Victrolaboy wrote:http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 1689954358 Someone has listed a 44" brass horn on eBay for $2999. The description says that it is "exceptionally rare" but is it really worth $2999?

If you move the decimal to the left... nice early horn, but like George said - way overpriced...

EarlH wrote:And then there were the folks that sold the Class M Edison for $300 on craigslist about 80 miles from me a year or so ago.. They told me "They knew it was really rare and valuable so don't waste our time with any lowball offers" I know the guy that got it bought. Ha! Stupid me and them I guess. But it took me less than a minute on the internet to get a few values on the thing. I figured if they were smart enough to post an ad with a few pictures, they should know how to do a simple internet search. It had 5-6 reproducers and recorders with it and half a dozen listening tubes as well.

Holy smokes! I'm sure we all wish that we were the person who snatched up that Class M!!! A friend of mine knows a guy who found an Edison Class M at a Goodwill store for $300! He purchased it and then resold it for $7000. Now I would pay $7000 for a Class M any day. I'll buy two at that price! Things like this is what keeps me looking around on the local Craigslist ads, going to flea markets and antique malls, and checking the Goodwill stores every once and a while. There's a Goodwill store nextdoor to the grocery store in my town and when I'm at grocery store with my parents (i'm 13 so I still live with my parents) I always say "I need to go into Goodwill and make sure there's not a Class M in the back of the store." I haven't found a Class M in the back yet, but I have found some great records. I always keep an eye out for stuff at flea markets because you never know what you're going to find. I found my Edison Triumph phonograph at the Nashville flea market last November.

If that horns sells, then P.T. Barnum will have been proven right!