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Well, it looks like there's more in New Hampshire than just primaries.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unusual-Perfect ... 1520829737

Fonotone wrote:Well, it looks like there's more in New Hampshire than just primaries.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unusual-Perfect ... 1520829737

Did you look at the questions section? Don't you just love those bottom feeders, offering $1000 for this like they were doing the seller a favor.

Chuck

ChuckA wrote:

Fonotone wrote:Well, it looks like there's more in New Hampshire than just primaries.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unusual-Perfect ... 1520829737

Did you look at the questions section? Don't you just love those bottom feeders, offering $1000 for this like they were doing the seller a favor.

Chuck

I saw that, Chuck. Hilarious. The height of benevolence.

--Grant

I've never seen a Bell-Tainter on EBay - WOW

Grant and Chuck, can you speculate on the value of this machine? Even a wide ballpark figure would be interesting. Jerry Blais

Jerry B. wrote:Grant and Chuck, can you speculate on the value of this machine? Even a wide ballpark figure would be interesting. Jerry Blais

Chuck? $20K plus? Am I thinking too small? $30K plus? Not like there are many of them around, certainly not in that condition. By the way, I see it's already vanished, gone from ebay, so apparently someone made an offer that couldn't be refused.

Fonotone wrote:

Jerry B. wrote:Grant and Chuck, can you speculate on the value of this machine? Even a wide ballpark figure would be interesting. Jerry Blais

Chuck? $20K plus? Am I thinking too small? $30K plus? Not like there are many of them around, certainly not in that condition. By the way, I see it's already vanished, gone from ebay, so apparently someone made an offer that couldn't be refused.

An easy $15K - $20K, maybe more after seeing what that Berliner sold for last week.

I'll bet pulling the auction pissed off a few of the bidders. Maybe they just decided to see what it really was worth, obviously with the low starting price they didn't know what they had.


Chuck

The last Bell-Tainter Type K I was aware of sold privately for $30K. It was missing the reproducer. These are super rare machines. Disappointing to see it pulled.

I remember 15 years ago a very original Type G turned up on eBay and created quite a stir. Bidding soared fairly quickly up to $18K, still below reserve. Then the seller pulled it. I sent a message to ask why and he replied that he had no intention of selling it, he just wanted to find out what it might be worth. He had put a $20K reserve on it so he pulled it out of fear it would hit reserve and he would be obliged to sell it.

Which would be the more rare version of this type Graphophone? A Spring Motor propelled one, or an Electric?

Fran