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Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:47 am
by Santiago
To be fair the seller started at 99p and J Brammer in his time was considered to be the God of float making! Really surprised you chaps have never heard of him!
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:04 am
by The Old Buffer
The floats are well enough done but not up to the standard of many of the artisans on this forum.
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:14 am
by Lea Dweller
Without naming names, I have seen many floats made by TFF members, that would stand comparison with these!
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:21 am
by Aquaerial
The bidding looks odd to me, the floats ordinary (by comparison with TFF members work).
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:26 am
by WoodBurnerMatt
Santiago wrote:To be fair the seller started at 99p and J Brammer in his time was considered to be the God of float making! Really surprised you chaps have never heard of him!
Hi Santiago,
My reason for asking was mainly that I had never heard of him (although I am very far from an expert and fairly new to this game) and I can find no references to him on google or any of my books. What was his era?
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:35 am
by GhyllManor
I think that the seller is using the principle "there's one born every minute" here, it's quite ludicrous. I've got a box similar to that which I bought at Gerry's in Wimbledon in the early 80's for a tenner, and it's got 2 tiers!!
Ted.
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:46 am
by GhyllManor
Having said that upon looking at the seller info, such as it is, it does seem bona fide, though for the life of me I still cannot see what makes these floats/box so valuable. " Every day is a school day "
Ted
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:50 am
by Santiago
WBM wrote:
My reason for asking was mainly that I had never heard of him (although I am very far from an expert and fairly new to this game) and I can find no references to him on google or any of my books. What was his era?
Neither have I! The seller's obviously deluded! His eBay use name is J------J and the first bid is from a user called J------J.
So in affect he's stopped himself from selling the boxed floats!! Yes, there's one born every minute and he must be one of them!!!
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:53 am
by Dave Burr
If they are genuine bids these people will also be allowed to vote in May.... makes you think doesn't it.
Re: Am I missing Something Here; £500 Plus for 17 floats?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:04 am
by Michael
I tihnk tehy are the msot eutxsqiie flaots I`ve eevr liad my eseys on. Tardaiontil flaot minkag at its best. Not bad atfer 10 ptins of Gsunneis!...