1900s Silver Figural Baseball Music Box

murphusa · #1 05-05-2015, 09:18 PM

I was a bidder on the item. The listing was under music boxes 1940 to 1970's category

I looked it up and saw that the price on boxes made by Fred sold in the $750 to $ 1250.00 area. I based my bidding on that and not on other auctions as I did not know of them

After I saw the sold price I looked some more and found the others. Then the post here led me to more. Today I looked up all I could find and was able to compare all 6 that had sold.

I own a Thorne turntable that is pure heaven to listen too. They also made some of those great large metal records from the 1890's so I knew them.

I find this all fun to do.

Bottom line, if i saw bobs auction today I would have made the effort to get the money together to give it a run to at least $9500 and would have sent it to REA for the fall if I had won

bobfreedman · #2 05-05-2015, 09:30 PM

Jim, that would not have won the piece, my snipe was for well over that. I also actually had visions of winning this for less than $200 for 6 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes

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murphusa · #3 05-05-2015, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by bobfreedman

Jim, that would not have won the piece, my snipe was for well over that. I also actually had visions of winning this for less than $200 for 6 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes

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I was high bidder with 3 hours left
So it was mine

murphusa · #4 05-05-2015, 09:31 PM

Here is something to discuss. All three hunt boxes are described as 1920's The second Hunt box sold for $8500 in July 2008. And then twice more to $22,000

If it was auctioned 3 month latter in October 2008 would it have sold for half that with the monetary collapse?

Most likely not but what $2,300. Just maybe

murphusa · #5 05-05-2015, 09:38 PM

Research, the SCP auction say tmottbg came out in 1908. And then says the music box was earth 1900's. Well it couldn't be earlier than 08
The song didn't become popular until the 20's so the thought that a company would try to sell a music box with a non popular song in 1908 doesn't fit

Sometimes logic works

vintagesportscollector · #6 05-05-2015, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by murphusa

Research, the SCP auction say tmottbg came out in 1908. And then says the music box was earth 1900's. Well it couldn't be earlier than 08
The song didn't become popular until the 20's so the thought that a company would try to sell a music box with a non popular song in 1908 doesn't fit

Sometimes logic works

..yeah, if only more buyers demonstrated logic. I think you give far too much credit to many buyers

. If only some people demonstrated half the commen sense and logic and effort to research that you do Jim. Although knowing TMOTTBG didn't become popular untl the 20s requires knowledge beyond just plain logic.

This is one of the my biggest, if not biggest, pet peeves - when AHs list dates that couldn't possibly be true, even based on their own description. I was recently reading a Legenday listing that had an item described as "1890s to 1910", eventhough in their own description they "stated the tag dates the uniform to 1905", well then why the f__k did you say "1890s to...".

vintagesportscollector · #7 05-05-2015, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murphusa

I was a bidder on the item. The listing was under music boxes 1940 to 1970's category

I looked it up and saw that the price on boxes made by Fred sold in the $750 to $ 1250.00 area. I based my bidding on that and not on other auctions as I did not know of them

After I saw the sold price I looked some more and found the others. Then the post here led me to more. Today I looked up all I could find and was able to compare all 6 that had sold.

I own a Thorne turntable that is pure heaven to listen too. They also made some of those great large metal records from the 1890's so I knew them.

I find this all fun to do.

Bottom line, if i saw bobs auction today I would have made the effort to get the money together to give it a run to at least $9500 and would have sent it to REA for the fall if I had won

Ok, good to know and thanks for sharing. So even knowing it was 40s you would have bid $10k -well that immediatelly sets a floor. My only point is how much the knowledge of it being 40s would set a ceiling considerably below previous sales of $22/26K (maybe not at all). The previous auctions did not have the luxury of being correctly listed as "Music Boves 40 -70", nor "Fred Z.", nor "Thorn", so that is my point that any previous auction that you saw (that considerably swayed your opinion to believe these are worth far more than $750 to $1250) were bid on by some people who didn't have the real story and may not have had a good idea on what they were buying.

Shoeless Moe · #8 05-05-2015, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by murphusa

I was a bidder on the item. The listing was under music boxes 1940 to 1970's category

What did you bid? There are only 2 bids over 400, one being the winner the other being Matts.

vintagesportscollector · #9 05-05-2015, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

What did you bid? There are only 2 bids over 400, one being the winner the other being Matts.

I am curious of Matt's opinion since he seems quite knowledeable of the piece and previous sales, (not to call him out

), but I guess he made his thoughts clear in post #2.

murphusa · #10 05-05-2015, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

What did you bid? There are only 2 bids over 400, one being the winner the other being Matts.

I was outbid at 1400 pst

You didn't read what I wrote.

I saw the item, I researched it

I bid $66

It held up for some time.

Never went back to it as it didn't interest me as much as other.

Now knowing more I would have taken a run

Why are you so negative on this win by a good guy, jealous

vintagesportscollector · #11 05-05-2015, 10:27 PM

Personally I think this is just a fun discussion...hopefully no one takes it personally. Bob's a great guy and I can't wait to see a pic of the box proudly displayed on his glass shelves (I look forward to adding the pic to his showcase).

bobfreedman · #12 05-05-2015, 10:34 PM

I ran out of room on my other shelf and had to put it on another shelf.

vintagesportscollector · #13 05-05-2015, 10:38 PM

..ask and you shall receive. Beautiful, Stunning. Wow..you got that fast..did you pick it up in person?

bobfreedman · #14 05-05-2015, 10:41 PM

No, I asked her to overnight it (for an additional $40) because I was concerned that someone who knew the value of it would make her a better offer. I did not want to take a chance at all on this. Me being paranoid and nervous

Shoeless Moe · #15 05-06-2015, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murphusa

I was outbid at 1400 pst

You didn't read what I wrote.

I saw the item, I researched it

I bid $66

It held up for some time.

Never went back to it as it didn't interest me as much as other.

Now knowing more I would have taken a run

Why are you so negative on this win by a good guy, jealous

So you did all that research and came up with a $66 dollar bid? just seems odd. In another post you say you might have gone to 9000. Quite a jump from 66 bucks.

Shoeless Moe · #16 05-06-2015, 07:53 AM

Sorry Jim re-read your posts, so you knew this manufacturer made these and they ranged from $700-$1000 items, so your bid was $66......then u did your research after the auction to learn the baseball ones sold for more (while possibly being incorrectly dated) and then would have gone to $9000.

So if these go to auction labeled 1940's/1950's, you still believe it goes for well over $9000. It very well might, but might not.

I guess we'll have to see next time one goes to auction.

And no not jealous of the good buy by Bob, I too saw the item, did not know the value, but would not have gone to 2K so too rich for my blood, thus can't be jealous of something I wouldn't have gone for. Just like the guys who sell a Wagner that they bought for 20K for over 200K, too rich for my blood.

Now if it went for $66, then yes I'd be envious indeed.

murphusa · #17 05-06-2015, 08:33 AM

as Bob said at one point he thought it was a $200 sale.

I was traveling on Sunday and that made it difficult to continue with the auction

God help the next AH to list one as circa 1900 as 200 people will be calling them out on the description as we all have become experts on baseball music boxes

funny how easy it is to become an expert/authenticator in the baseball memorabilia field

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