"dxAce" wrote in message
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Brian Hill wrote:

"Tony Meloche" wrote in message

There are certain Gibson Les Pauls and
Martin acoustics that sell easily in the $30,000 range at auction, and
most of them are not played - or even wall-hung. They go into bank
vaults as an "investment". Shrewd money planning, maybe, but that
instrument may never again be used for what it was designed for -
making
music. I'll bet there are old Hallicrafters out there you could say
the
same thing about. I think that's sad.

Tony

I have a 62 fender strat I still play and my buddy plays a 50s goldtop
Les
Paul. Heck DXAce plays a fender Broadcaster that's worth a small
fortune.
Some of us are still playing these things. Thank God!

Not entirely correct. The Broadcaster(s) was sold.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



Yea I've had a few very hard to resist offers on my strat but it's going to
my daughter when I kick the bucket or she goes to college.

B.H.

You are right...many collectibles are no longer used as they were
intended. They are put in a vault or on a shelf. And the collectibles
don't necessarily have to be expensive to just sit. The ice cream
scoop collectors don't pay a whole lot for most of those early kitchen
tools. I'm going to guess the evening dish of B&J Chubby Hubby get's
scooped with a modern aluminum ice cream scoop.

I think it is unfortunate that price keeps old collectibles from being
used. I guess that's why I prowl real auctions, estate sales and flea
markets. I've found a working Zenith TO for $10.00, a National HRO 500
for $35.00 that only needed a new power cord, a National Panasonic
RF-5000b for $50.00, etc. All of them were in great cosmetic shape and
were put to work as found.

Some of the finest big old radios I have ever seen are in those old
gangster movies on tv.I saw a radio yesterday in a movie (The Killing,I
think is the title of that movie) that had me drooling over.
cuhulin

Yes, those old wood floor model radios are great. My brother-in-law
bought a house not too long ago and resting up in the rafters of the
garage was an old mw and shortwave floor model radio. The dial was so
big we first thoght it was an early television! Name escapes me right
now, but I think it's a Zenith, complete with tuning eye and an
internal rotating antenna in a silver metal box. The mahogany case is
dark, but pretty much complete. It's mine for the shipping, if I can
convince the wife it will "work" with our furniture.


wrote:
Some of the finest big old radios I have ever seen are in those old
gangster movies on tv.I saw a radio yesterday in a movie (The
Killing,I
think is the title of that movie) that had me drooling over.
cuhulin

Must be a good Radio
"Mark S. Holden" wrote in message
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Evan Platt wrote:

On 9 Jan 2005 15:11:57 -0800, "Invader3K"
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Forgive my ignorance, but what is so special about this radio that
would fetch such an obscenely high amount of money? I wonder if the bid
is a joke. Good luck to the seller on collecting that.


For a auction to reach a skyrocketed price on eBay, TWO people need to
be involved (if the bid is a 'joke'.

Based on the proxy bidding system, let's say someone sells a widget
that's worth $500. If someone bids $500.00, and then the 'jokester'
comes and bids $50,000. The 'bid' is actually the next increment of
$500 - probably like $505. And that is what the auction will close at.

There is an exception to the "you need two bidders to drive the price
up" rule.

If an auction hasn't met reserve yet, it will go from wherever it is to
the amount of the reserve the first time someone bids high enough.

On this radio, the reserve was set at $50,000.

Two bidders had maxed out tied at $28,700. The last guy came along and
bid at least $50,000 so the auction went right up to that.

The bid may or may not have been a joke. If it was my auction, and it
involved that kind of dollars, I think I'd have relisted it by now.

There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
cuhulin

Dennis and Judy Toye wrote:

Must be a good Radio

Well, it's certainly a collectable radio.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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| There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
| cuhulin

Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
look like truly fine furniture.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:

wrote in message
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| There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
| cuhulin

Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
look like truly fine furniture.

I was just sitting here thinking about the nice one I passed up for $75 a few
years ago.

The big black Zenith dial, a perfect cabinet too...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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| "Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:
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| wrote in message
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| | There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model
Radio.
| | cuhulin
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| Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
| look like truly fine furniture.
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| I was just sitting here thinking about the nice one I passed up for $75 a
few
| years ago.
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| The big black Zenith dial, a perfect cabinet too...
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| dxAce
| Michigan
| USA

Holy crap, what a great price.

Right now, the Transoceanics seem to be going (at least locally) for
around that, thanks to the rare/expensive (so they say) 1L6 tube,
intact with both antennas (MW and SW), but I have yet to find
one with an outstanding, clean case.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous