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gas pump hercules visible 1920's- one of a kind

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Thanks Travis! I'm sure it won't last but I can now say that I had the high bid on a Roman Column pump at one time!! LOL

2nd or 3rd time it's been on ebay

Dick--I think you spend too much time on ebay! LOL Its the first time I've ever seen it!
Maybe I don't spend enough time on ebay?? If I spent any more time, my wife would kill me!!!

Dick/Anyone what size cylinder is supposed to fit this pump? thx

12.5 by 26

What are those globes worth? Looks pretty neat but not sure how valuable they are...

Appears to be a Tin Punched lens. Hard to find w/ original good paint.
Unless a WAYNE is a Tall Ten or 5gal, cylinders are 12 1/2" x 26"

KW - dang sorry about that!



---> Dick B - "Appears to be a Tin Punched lens"
HA HA lol rotflmao!!!! OMG gona do it again, HA HA lol rotflmao!!! What was your first clue? Whats that guy say on TV? Heres your sign...


Back to KW -
I was gona set to snipe at it for $8,500 but I'm trying to work a deal on a another model t right now... So at least you know I am out!


-----> OMG back to Dick B - HA HA lol rotflmao REALLY, I mean REALLY??? LOL!!!! I gota show this to the wife! This kinda thing only happens once every 5 years!


Travis
Topeka, Kansas

Never went to auction, just looked @ YOUR pic.

Come on man - why you got to kill my joy like that? lol

That lens is kida neat - might be easy to make one - I would like to try and make one of those for my Bowser sitting outside... Anyone have a pattern or a trace they can lend?

Travis T
Topeka, Kansas

I got the guy to call me this morning and discuss the details of the pump. I told him that I had seeen this pump before for sale yatta yatta yatta. Wasn't totally satisfied with answers. But SOMEBODY, and I'm sure they are reading this, emailed him not to sell for less than 10k. Thanks big mouth. Can't anybody let a deal slide through every once in a while. Not like one column for a eraonable price would crush the market.

Travis would never do that [except to little old lady] !

Current price is Over 2X what I have in BOTH of mine combined & a friend bought 1 last year w/ Blue glass for less than a 1/4 of what Kevin has bid.

Was not me, I don't care about making this guy more money - no friend of mine, don’t know them...

10k+ - not in this econ, not in this market, not today, prob not on ebay = they can be had for around 6,500 missing parts to 9,500 with glass and ALL other parts. This one should sell for 8,500 maybe a bit for the globe if it is worth big $ - in my area anyway, and if I recall it is in my area - but sometimes things go nuts so you never know? People need to sell things off to keep their homes and since people are loosing jobs toys are the first things to be sold off, and toys are the first NOT to be bought. Cars, Yachts, Etc, are all bottoming out fast. There is a guy that has a 89' ketch "sail boat" 7 bedrooms, with Kevlar sails for trade for a home in the mid-west because they lost their job and can not find another one in their area - I can not talk my wife into it, but 6 years ago that yacht would be worth 600 grand, today 100 grand IF you can get a buyer and get it out of Lake Poncha CLEAN.

There was a time when they could sell this pump for 13.5k+ trashed, but not today, there are just too many people just do not have the money or are not willing to part with it.

The time for him to sell it for 10k+ was 5 years ago. I am sure they are hurting for cash that is why it is back for sale with no reserve.

Travis
Topeka, Kansas

I would really like to get a nice straight column (Dick or Ron) or anybody else but I told him also that it is worth 8-9 which I thought was honest. I offered him 6500 cash and said I could go a hair higher maybe if he finds other parts. The erie clockface that sold from MD on Ebay last week for 1500 had 75+ watchers so the guy wouldn't sell to me for 1400. So much for the 75 watchers. Only 1 bid for 1500 with less than 10 secs left. This guy also said tons of interest. I explained that realistically there are only about a dozen people in the country who know exactly what this pump is and would be in the market to spend 9+ cash. Ony my thoughts.

I sold a Roman first of this year for 12K unrestored and the guy was tickled pink to get it. Not saying this one will go for that much, and I don't think ebay is the place to sell pumps, but seriously, if you decided today you wanted one...could you find one to buy? There are still LOTS of people out there with plenty of disposable income. I say it brings 8.7K with no glass.

Hey Kris, you seem like a nice guy...if you really want one, I have a good complete Roman with blue cylinder I'll sell you reasonably

WOW 12k this year = nice.

4 years ago before gas hit $3.75 a gallon I could sell my un-restored Fry Mae West's Cast/or/Steel for $1,900 with no glass, pump handle, conduit, shut off valve, rods or lower doors. The high gas prices killed the market around here and it still has not recovered for me, today $900.00-1,200.00 tops for a Mae un-restored - so I am not selling them, I am buying - everyone I can find I buy and I am just stashing them for the better days down the road. Fry Speedboys are bringing $5-600.00 unrestored with glass - restored $1,250.00 - just not enough in it to bother with with right now.

Yea some people have money but they know the market sucks and so they are hitten the prices hard and will pass on a dime - I have seen it first hand.

Now is the time to BUY.

I am very interested to see what this goes for this time.


Travis
Topeka, Kansas

Alright, fess up...who got him to end it early? I was really looking forward to seeing what it brought. Anyone know what happened??

I think he is an idiot. I offered, well let's say. 7 plus when it was at 4k and he was interested in how to end the auction early. If it got to over 8k and he ended early that's pretty stupid. Got scared or some money guy had to have it. Either way irritating.

I think askin a seller to end an item early is bs anyways. If he wanted to sell it outright he would have listed it on craigslist with a price or added a buy it now. If it's something you want that bad suck it up and bid like the rest of us.

You call him stupid for ending it early, but it would have been OK for him to end it early for you ? What is Irritating is anybody that offers the seller cash to end an auction early. You all give your offers but whine like girls when somebody else gets it instead. If You all just let the auctions run their duration eBay would be a much better place. There, I feel better now!

It would be nice to know how much it went for! I kinda like to keep track of the market as best I can but I guess there really is no way to guage the value of a pump like that! Hope we get to see it again--maybe all prettied up? Anyone going to fess up to having bought it?

Don't care that it eas ended. End it whenever it's not my life! What is irritating is that he wouldn't end it early, understandable, but after days on Ebay and all the ineterest and offers, that's a stupid time to end it. Wait one more day and see what happens. That was my point.

Maybe he was offered big money from American pickers!

Southfloridagas- Why is it ok to bad mouth the seller when you are not able to buy it for less then its worth? He said you offered less then what you wrote. The net of it all was that someone stepped up and paid what he wanted or he kept it.

Either way I think he did just fine and I would say he was smart to use Ebay to advertise for a very low cost.

OK again getting carried away from the original thought " Here goes my run on sentence. If I had something that was getting a ton of positive inquiries and or offers, let it stay on Ebay while I watched it climb quickly from 4k to over 8k with quite a lot of time left, and then pulled the item I would have to wonder what I was doing. That's it. No real offers, no real bidders ok typiucally you pull and sell for a soled cash offer. The way this panned out is lacking in the logic department. Maybe a bird in hand is better than two in the bush. I have spent more time responding over something that wasn't meant to be. FYI I offerd 6500 cash ealry obviously trying to get a good deal than countered and said I would go over 7. Goodnite guys.

I got an email this morning saying my bid was canceled. I had it set up to snipe for $10222 , I hope he got at least that for it.

Glad to see they still bring GOOD MONEY.
I'm still looking for an AIR manifold casting that holds the 3rd lever for my 5gal.

I sold one last fall outright for $12000. A complete pump, no paint, lots of surface rust. It went to Texas

I bet it did not even sell, he ended it early because he did not want to pay a reserve auction fee. I bet he got to thinking it was not going to bring as much as he wants. I bet we see it again on ebay.

With snipppppen you never know exactly what you are going to get, so I see this type of "end earlys" a lot.


Travis
Topeka, Kansas