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#284887 Sun Nov 13 2011 04:21 PM
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Well last week i noticed a 6' gulf sign on craigslist and have been putting off going to see it. Well we were going to the store in the next town over today and this guys house is on the way there so i get the number and give him a call and tell him i'll stop buy to look at it(over priced but when i called him a week earlier he said he has some more gulf items from when his dad built gulf stations but he wasnt ready to sell them. I pull up and the gulf sign is pretty nice dated 1965 but i dont have the room for it. so his wife ask if me and my dad were the ones interested in other gulf items and we said yes. She walks in the barn and i expext her to come out with a can or something but no she has a NOS gulf marine white lens then she says well we have another that is complete she goes back and and brings it out i almost fainted. She told me to make and offer and i did and her husband said it sounded good to him so ended up with the mint condition gulf lenses in a glass hull body and the extra lens.Pays to ask.

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I think that's a Repro!

J/K! Man, that is a great find....bet not many of those exist...making it super RARE!
I know I've never seen one until now. IT ALWAYS PAYS TO ASK if there's More! wink


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Excellent find, Congratulations. I found 2 NOS ones several years ago in NY, I made the trip to buy 1 and the guy gave me 2 complete globes for the same money as what I thought was for a 1 globe purchase


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Thanks guys, I would have been pleased with the one lens but when she said they would sell the complete i got really excited.

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Great find there Robert.


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a good story with a happy ending- congratulations..


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Awesome!!


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Thanks everyone. I'll be keeping the complete globe and putting the extra lens on ebay tonight.

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That is sweet!!!!!


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Keep the globe & Give the single lens to your Son. He might as well start His collection w/ a Great Lens he received from his Dad. Every time he looks at it will remind him of where it came from & who was w/ him.

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i wish i had your luck robert!


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Originally Posted By: Dick Bennett
Keep the globe & Give the single lens to your Son. He might as well start His collection w/ a Great Lens he received from his Dad. Every time he looks at it will remind him of where it came from & who was w/ him.


I don't think Dick realizes you are 17.
Great find Robert..... it will be pretty hard to top that one, but you have lots of years ahead of you to try. smile

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Nice find/buy, Robert!


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Well then give it to your Dad for his Collections

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Excellent find, congratulations!!!!


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