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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
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
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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.