1900s Silver Figural Baseball Music Box

[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