This has to be THE best in the mandolin family I've ever seen!!
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Anyone ever play one of these?
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
in a lack of will.
2006 Eastman 505 #206
No. I'd be afraid to even pull it up to pitch! Let alone get my hand oils and sweat all over it. That it showcase stuff only.
Scott
2006 Weber "Special Edition"
1915 Larsons Brothers Flatback
Hasn't this one been around the block a time or 2 before?
Yeah, this goes up for sale every couple months at roughly the same price.
Would I play it ... not in public.
Looks like a Palm Beach sport jacket with strings.
Curt
I think the general opinion, more or less, is that it is a cheap copy maybe 100 years old. They went crazy on the inlay but the carving is not first rate.
Maybe an early Antonio Tsai.
We are certainly in a post-literate world, but this clown takes the cake.
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Love that apostrophe in eyes.
A math wizard, even if he can’t spell or punctuate.
Hate that.
So he's a loot'yay. And keenly aware of originality in museum-grade instruments.
More than enough, though alas, he can't stop:
Yeah right. Logic in action. This one's a perennial source of laughs. Isn't the kid out of college by now?
Does this just bring tears to your eyes?
Yeah, this is at least the 4th time I have seen this mando for sale on Ebay.
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Do you think it is sincerely bought by each buyer, quickly determined to be too ugly to even be a wall hanger, and they just try to see if they can find a sucker of approximately the same size they were? Or are there actually multiple copies of this hideous thing?
Every time i see this, i wonder if it isn't time for him to finally start pursuing museums. Heck, he's tried the informal market often enough. It is a little disappointing, though; i always thought you could sell anything on eBay if you priced it high enough.
Where is the vomit emoticon?
Hummm... Seems I'm sitting here a bit red-faced.
So it's a scam, is it? Here I thought it was something really special, and turns out it's just eye candy. Reminds me of my Ex-Wife.
Well then, forgive me for taking up all the 1's and 0's that this thread consumed.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.......
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
in a lack of will.
2006 Eastman 505 #206
If that thing reminds you of your ex-wife, I would have hated to be you when you woke up the next morning.
Mmmm, clown barf picks.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
I,ve never seen it sell, I think it's the same guy and he drops his price a little every time. Think it was going for 16,000 one time.
Poe#5, Neely#72, Kentucky KM 150 (The Bagram Beater)
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I *did* say Ex-Wife....
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
in a lack of will.
2006 Eastman 505 #206
GEE, with some little bottles of airplane model paint using a small brush I can "restore" my $49.99 Rogue RM-100A using "original" designs from the Dover public domain art books. It still has the "Made in CHINA" label inside and the original plastic tuner pegs that look like genuine pearl.
I can sell it (cheap)on EBay for only $11,999 with free shipping
I stopped pursuing museums years ago. The big lumbering things are just too danged easy to catch. Not much sport in it.
awm
I know the seller. He is ever-present at a local flea market in CT. Not an evil sort but a full time antique/junk picker who specializes in musical instruments. he is the seller mutliple times this has appeared. He figures, I guess, that some day some sucker will buy this monstrosity which I believe is a composite of a few semi old things but no real instrument that ever really existed.
Jim
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I'd beat like a mule, as Mr. Monroe would say.
No worries about posting it. It gets more fun making jokes about it each time it's listed...
I don't know what your definition of eye candy is but mine is obviously something else.
Poe#5, Neely#72, Kentucky KM 150 (The Bagram Beater)
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[QUOTE] don't know what your definition of eye candy is but mine is obviously something else
Maybe a soor plumb
Mountains are holy places
and beauty is free (runrig)
At some point in the future I can only aspire to be as refined and discriminating as you..... None the less, thank you for sharing.
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
in a lack of will.
2006 Eastman 505 #206
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