Expensive relic on Ebay *LINK*

Re: Expensive relic on Ebay

wayne anderson

>Little Victor Block Plane #51-1/2?, with the nickel plating and red japanning...rare.

Wayne Anderson

Re: Expensive relic on Ebay

wayne anderson

>Taken from a 1973 reprint of a 1879 Stanley catalog. You can see that there are two nickel plated models. The one on eBay does not appear to be the fully adjustable model.

Wayne Anderson

holy smokes!

dave jeske

>I would of passed that one by if it were only $1 on a flea market table. Shows you what I know about rare planes!

Dave

Re: holy smokes!

Erik S. Friis, back in Dodge

>Looks like the seller also didn't know much about it and probably picked it up for a couple of bucks somewhere. I'll bet he was sure surprised to see what it fetched!! I too would probably have passed on it for a buck at a garage sale ;-)

At that price. . .

Tony Sade (Charleston, WV)

>I'd rather have a Wayne Anderson. (Assuming he makes one small enough for that amount of scratch. ;>) Tony

Holy Smokes Guys!

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>C'mon now fellas, who you tryin' to kid? You CAN'T convince a fellow rust junkie that for $1 you'd of passed this up at a flea market. For A BUCK?! I didn't know it was a big $$$ plane either, but for $1 I would of snapped it up surely.

Todd O.

Anybody Want To Buy A Bridge?

George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA

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Well ...I like mine

Todd Hughes

>I was at an estate auction a few years back and saw it setting on a table with some other planes and tools. I knew what it was soon as I saw it. There were a few other "Tool Guys" there and I really was afraid that they would give me trouble. Was setting next to a rather rough 604 which were getting lots of attention.I kept my mouth shut of course and acted stupid ,[easy for me!] When the autioner came to it I asked them to put it and a junk 120 block plane up [for camoflage !] and got them for $10, which was my first and the only bid. I think I could have gotten it for less but I was getting peevish and bid on the opening asking bid. I really was ready for it to get up and go but guess nobody else knew what it was.Probably from the big grin on my face I heard the guy next to me say "I think that fellow just got something good" Just to mess with him I showed him the 120 and told him that it was a very rare and vauable plane.....Oh think that 604 went for like $150 to some tool expert.....Todd

Say Todd,

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Is that the one that you use to hold your window open a few inches?

Man, I wish you'd write a book, I love your stories. Might want to use a pen-name tho as you wouldn't want local folks getting wise to you, and when you say "Hey how much for this little junker plane", thay don't say Oh, it's that Author guy and up the price form $1 to $100 fiquring that you know it's valuable anf they don't.

When it comes to you it's Seller Beware. ;~)

Todd O.

Todd O.

Little Victor questions

Clay C in Miami

>So I'm clear - it looks from the catalog and comments here like

1) There are two 'finishes' - nickel plated ones and japanned ones, but none with both nickel and japanning? But, the eBay one has both nickel and Japanning? I can't be sure I see nickel on it, but if you say so, I definitely believe you!

2) There are three mechanical variants - screw fastening, screw eye, and 'complete' adjustments.

3) All combinations except nickel/screw eye were available.

4) Both the eBay one and Todd's look to have the same adjuster - I assume, since Todd's looks to have nickel, that both theirs are the 'screw fastening' ones?

Are there also less-rare ones with black japanning? Red japanning's more desirable than nickel? Todd's looks like it might have black japanning inside, but that's hard to tell (and if it does, then that's not nickel?) 'Complete' adjustment ones are rarer than these 'screw fastening' ones?

So many questions for such a little plane! (Not that I'll ever again pass one up for a buck or two, regardless of its adjustment or finish type ... )

Thanks,

Clay

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paul womack

>Looks like the seller also didn't know much about it

Not so sure.

Looking at the bid history:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=6204144720

I'm guessing that delta88's run of bids from 130.00 up to 250.00, with no one else bidding, were "probes" on a reserve price.

So I'm guessing the seller knew enough to put a multi-hundred dollar reserve on.

Anyone know for certain?

BugBear

Re: holy smokes!

Dale Stansbery

>If it was a reserve auction, a "Reserve Met" note would be under the winning bid. This looks like a no reserve auction. When you see the same guy bidding repeatedly in a no reserve auction, he's usually chasing the next higher bids top bid.

I think I'm going to be sick!

Patrick Gibbons, Houston, TX

>When my father died in 1983, I found four of those in the storage room. My father was a salesman and I thought they were toy items he had picked up at a penny on the dollar. (My father was the odd lots king). I gave them to my nephews who played with them, left them out in the rain, got tired of them and threw them away. It sickens me to find out about this, especially after it took me so long to get over giving away those 25 "Flintstone" planes he also had. (Not to mention the autograph book with such famous people's John Hancock as Winston Churchill, Josep Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Wallace Beery, Rudolph Valentino, and a whole bunch of other chicken scratchings I mistakenly thought were forgeries.) Of course I kept the real junk like some pearl-handled revolvers with the initials GSP on them, and some mushy love letter from a certain JK to a girl named Marilyn, and some old Italian violin, and the list goes on. Boy, am I going to be sick. ;^)

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Todd Hughes

>GSP?....hmmm now if they were ivory handled instead of pearl you could think maybe it stood for George S. Patton, eh? ....but still interesting I guess .....Todd