#65420
Wed Sep 13 2006 08:38 PM
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I have not seen this sale listed on this site yet, i may have missed it. Sullivan Auctions at Hamilton Illinois. Sept. 26 2006. go to www.sullivanauctioneers.com check it out. Norm Huff
Norm Huff
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#65421
Thu Sep 14 2006 03:37 PM
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Thanks for the heads up Norm.
Wanted: Gas pump globes:Sinclair & affiliates, IL companies. Ripple bodies. Anything Sinclair, Stoll, Pierce, 4 Bros. http://www.lastgas15.com/
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#65422
Thu Sep 14 2006 04:14 PM
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Wow, what an auction!!!!!
_______________________________ Glenn Wanted: Wadhams Oil and Gas items checker006@comcast.net
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#65423
Thu Sep 14 2006 09:31 PM
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This auction is huge. I live 5 miles from the auction site, as these guys usually give me the heads up on single petro items. The majority of the item(gas n oil only) are from the John Cruickshank collection. For those of you that don't know John, he sets up at a number of events all over the US, and has very, very nice stuff. If you can get down for this auction, you will not want to miss it. I heard the has over 150 consignee's already on board. The auction site is very nice and is indoors and heated or cooled, whatever need be. Sullivans are good people and are "No Non-sense" auctioneers. This will be a very fast pace auction. Bring your wallets!
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#65424
Fri Sep 15 2006 07:13 PM
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Forget the gas pumps - look at the model t's! I will be going to this one!!! Thanks for posting!
Travis E. Towle Topeka, Kansas
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#65425
Fri Sep 15 2006 08:19 PM
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T.T. Without gas pumps, you gon'a be WALK'N ! LOL
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#65426
Sat Sep 16 2006 07:16 AM
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This is a good auction service very professional. The auction is in Petroleum Collectibles September issue on page 20. They also use Proxibid for this auction. Like Chadrock said they are fast paced. It will be a fun one.
Wanted Owens Motor Oil & Mobiloil Gargoyle. Brad Ralston & my website is www.petrobarn.com
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#65427
Mon Sep 25 2006 06:15 PM
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Anyone going to this auction on Tuesday?
I'd love to bid on a sign but have yet to get my registration accepted. Got a call that my charge card that was good for Aumann Auctions is good, but not enough for Sullivan Auctions. I needed to also fax in a letter of credit from my bank. Did that and haven't heard back. If they don't want me, I wonder how high the standards are?
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#65428
Mon Sep 25 2006 08:22 PM
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Jim, Ya didn't tell them your an OLDgas'r, DID YA ? LOL db
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#65429
Tue Sep 26 2006 06:23 PM
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Jim, i did not check our site last night, sorry, i did go to the sullivan auction today, at hamilton il. i was hopeing for some unusual items, did not find any. The script top m&s was a porcelain top and the best one, i thought it also brought the best money. i hope you got connected with them, so you could bid. good luck. norm huff.
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#65430
Tue Sep 26 2006 07:53 PM
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That's OK, Norm. I was making a last minute request and I figured people who were going were probably already there. I never got the approval for online bidding from Sullivan, so I couldn't bid. Looks like 95% of the winning bids were onsite, so maybe they didn't let many Internet bidders in on the game. Results: http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=4881 ------------------ Jim "Oldgas" PottsYour host and moderator
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#65431
Fri Sep 29 2006 10:35 AM
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I was at the Sullivan auction last Tuesday. The thing that myself and several others around me were scratching their heads about was the Wayne Cut 515, restored, with Red Crown globe (original) that only sold for a total of $1500. The bidding stalled at 1300, and the auctioneer had to beg and plead to get it up to 1500 before it died. Right after that, some guy paid $1000 and then $1100 for a couple of real ratty visibles, Wayne 615's that were next to junk. Why did the 515 go so cheap??
The script top Mobilgas had some spirited bidding, and it was nice,,,,but I don't get what people are thinking when they pass on a restored (and it was done right with brass cylinder rods, brass hardware, pin striped, wiring re-done) Wayne 515 and bid up a couple of junk pumps???
Have pumps reached their prime?? It is real easy to spend $1000-$1200 restoring a pump, let alone buying it in the first place. If this is an indicator of what pumps are doing, I think the market for them is done-in. There was also a nice narrow bodied glass Texaco globe that only brought something like $225. Other globes there went on the cheap too. If I had remembered my camera I would have taken a few pictures for this site....
The antique cars did well. The crowd doubled in size at noon when their advertised time came around. A 1931 Ford Model A roadster brought $18,500 and it was REAL ratty. Lousy paint job, wrong hood, cobbled up interior, all kinds of incorrect hardware and lots and lots of repop parts. A true 50 foot car. And they didn't even start the car because nobody had put oil in the motor. The very first thing it needed was stripped back down and given a good 4-5 thousand dollar body and paint job.
Who can figure?? And yes the Internet bidding was up and running, the bids WERE coming in.
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#65432
Fri Sep 29 2006 10:57 AM
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I saw the photo of that 31 roadster and it looked like it had one of the optional (after market 3 door hoods that were available in the 1930's). If it was an original they are worth a premium. Repros have been made.
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#65433
Sun Oct 01 2006 09:22 AM
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This hood was bad quality. When you opened the hood of the car it was real 'flexible' like the sheet metal was maybe on the order of the 1.0mm stuff---real cheap. Besides, Ford disapproved of such a 'GM style' hood on the A's............
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#65434
Sun Oct 01 2006 11:38 AM
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Pumps are a crapshoot at auctions, and that may be an understatement. At my auction last year, we sold an Erie clockface done in shell that was absolutely gorgeous and it only brought like $2200 even though we routinely get $4000-$5000 on restored clockfaces that we retail. THEN, an unrestored Bennett 150 clockface brings, I think $1600? Another example, at one of our sales a few years ago we sold an unrestored Roman for $10,000 and a beautiful Polly restored Roman went right behind it for $10,900? The extra $900 didn't even cover the paint job. Anyway, I don't think an auction is EVER the indicator of a market for any collectible as there are way too many variables involved. On the contrary, we are experiencing the heaviest volume of pump sales that we've had in 9 years and at the highest prices. Example...in the last month, I've sold 28 unrestored pumps at retail prices. That's more than I generally sell in 6 months.
[This message has been edited by Seth Robbins (edited 10-01-2006).]
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