Posted By:
Mark SteinbergIt is indeed a Town Ball Bat (Massachusettes Style). It did go cheap... would have realized closer to $750 in an auction like Hunt's or a direct sale via Bob McCann.
It did appear to have some significant damage at the extreme barrel end. Perhaps this kept the price down. I know this would have affected my max bid. Still a pretty decent example...
This is typical for ebay... Perhaps many of the best potential (advanced) buyers just missed it, and perhaps the description was not compelling enough to attract the more "novice" buyers.
I also think it's a bad time of year to be peddling stuff... Based on what I currently have listed (as well as recent prices realized) it appears to be a buyers market right now.