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Title: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: incazzatonero on February 24, 2009, 07:18:36 PM

On Ebay I have found this weight:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390033333192&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123

Kind regards

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: incazzatonero on February 24, 2009, 09:15:08 PM

oder :
St.Louis 19 Jhdt?

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on March 02, 2009, 08:26:43 PM

Now that's a price and a half!  It jumped over £2000 in the last couple of minutes....

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: incazzatonero on March 02, 2009, 09:50:23 PM

............and:
what is it?

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on March 02, 2009, 09:58:32 PM

Now thats one for the seriously knowledgeable on here.

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2009, 10:16:48 PM

I'm not "seriously knowledgeable" on these weights, but from browsing books and old sales catalogues, online auctions and from chatting to various other collectors, I offer the following comments:

19th century Saint Louis.
Concentric rows not of the neatest setting, but good.
(Super-)Magnum size is very rare.

I am a bit surprised that some of the later bidders had seemingly not noticed the period of bidding, for a day or so, when one bidder either withdrew or was withdrawn but had pushed the high bid up to the eventual winning amount.

I imagine that had this weight been sold 10 years ago through somewhere like Sotheby's New York, it could easily have reached a much higher price.

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: alexander on March 02, 2009, 10:37:39 PM

SL indeed - very nice weight, first one of that size I've seen on eBay.

I wonder how many BIN requests they got?

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: incazzatonero on March 03, 2009, 08:23:30 AM

hallo alexander,
what does BIN mean?

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: tropdevin on March 03, 2009, 08:57:51 AM

Hi Lothar

BIN = Buy It Now. It is quite common that if someone spots a valuable weight started at a low price, then they ask if there is a Buy It Now price, or even make an offer, hoping to get a bargain. It rarely works, but a very nice Bacchus which I planned to go up to £2500 for vanished from eBay with 2 days still to go, when only at £30.00; I fear the seller (a UK based antique dealer) accepted a few hundred pounds for it - maybe less.

Alan

Title: Re: Ebay- Magnum old english? Help ID! Goes up to 1500,00 Pound?
Post by: incazzatonero on March 03, 2009, 01:33:42 PM

Thanks Kevin ( now I have realized where you are).
Greetings.
Lothar