[Phono-L] Triumph on eBay

Bob rvuill at comcast.net
Mon Feb 4 18:06:07 PST 2008


Can you tell us the item number so we can do a search and see it?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Maeder" <appywander at hotmail.com>
To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] Triumph on eBay



Last night I told my wife that while everyone was watching the Superbowl 
(I'm not a sports fan), I was going shopping on eBay.  In my search, I found 
a magnificent unrestored but clean Model F Triumph that had been listed just 
a short time earlier.  It had an oak cygnet horn, O reproducer, and sat on 
its original drawer-front cylinder cabinet with carved claw feet that was 
chock full of assorted cylinders.  I saw at least one maroon opera box in a 
photo of one of the open drawers.  Something highly unusual . . . the 
umbrella signature/Trade Mark decal that is typically on the front carriage 
support casting was instead affixed to the rear casting!  The whole shooting 
match had a Buy It Now of $3500.  I told my wife I was buying something on 
eBay.  She asked, "What?"  I replied, "I'll tell you as soon as I hit the 
Buy It Now button."  I hit the button, the page reloaded and . . . I wasn't 
the buyer!!!  Someone else must have hit it a second ahead of me.  It took 
me a couple of hours to get over my disappointment.  Did anyone happen to 
see that beautiful Triumph?  The seller was unwilling to ship, so on the 
bright side, it saved me a trip to New Jersey!    John
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