Blackpool Auction

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:04 pm

Sounds great. I'm just hoping it isn't when I am having more knee surgery in early October!

Does anyone know whether the machines are currently being operated or where they all appeared from?

Regards C.

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:09 pm

Ignore my last. I'm assuming that the machines are from the Cheshire place and not from the Pleasure Beach?

JC · Post by JC » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:18 pm

The auction will be held at the Pleasure Beach on Sunday 30th September.

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:38 pm

So can I assume that the Cheshire Workshops are managing the Blackpool Pleasure Beach auction?

JC · Post by JC » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:08 pm

No, the Pleasure Beach are conducting the auction but Darren Hesketh is assisting with the catalogue.

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:41 pm

Ahh.... now it makes perfect sense. Are the machines currently in storage or being operated?

JC · Post by JC » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:56 pm

In answer to Cheeky, no the machines are not currently in operation. The bulk of the machines were previously operated in the old penny arcade, within the Pleasure Beach, which has been closed for the last couple of years. A few, including two of the Bollands Pharos fortune tellers, were operated in 'Riply's Believe it or Not' on the sea front, also owned by the Pleasure Beach.

In answer to Guest, there are somewhere between thirty and forty machines - most are pictured in the link provided by Pennymachines in the first post in this thread.

JC · Post by JC » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:35 pm

I've just heard that the directors of the Pleasure Beach have changed their minds again, and the auction will no longer be conducted at Blackpool. Neither, I suspect, will it be held on the 30th September as previously stated. I understand the machines are now going to Christies........I can see people losing interest in this one!

Jerry

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:49 pm

As we speak Jerry and I are planning this year's "End of the Season Auction". As promised this will be a central England event. It'll be around the same time as last year's in Coventry was.
I am busy looking for a venue and Jerry will soon start twisting arms for entries.
Watch this space!!!!!!!!!!

Badpenny

cadillac55uk · Post by **cadillac55uk** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:40 am

I agree with Guest. CHRISTIES....Stuff That!! We were looking forward to making a weekend of it in Blackpool but certainly won't be travelling to Christies.

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:37 am

That really is a big shame although I don't blame them for going to Christies based on the huge sums of money they seem to attract and the global exposure.

No - I've change my mind! Yes - I do blame them! They are not exactly struggling to make ends meet and it would have been nice to see some of the locals attending and the auction giving something back to the community.

My guess is that some of the stuff will go Stateside although with the current exchange rates, a lot less than previously!!!!!!

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:40 pm

Well if, as you say, they are making a loss, then we must forgive them for diverting to Christies - but then there is making a loss and carefully financial re-engineering - if you get my drift! How many flats per unit Sir?
Only kidding ....... I think!!!!!

cheeky · Post by **cheeky** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:11 pm

A point well made although for me Christies is far easier for me to get to than Blackpool! Have said that, I would rather go to Blackpool.

How about someone of influence speaking to Christies/BPB and trying to get them to run the auction at Blackpool?

JC · Post by JC » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:17 pm

Yes, it would appear Blackpool Pleasure Beach have made a complete pig's breakfast out of this! As I stated in my previous post, the auction was originally set for 30th Sept., on site at the Pleasure Beach. However, at a meeting held on Monday 16th Sept, it was apparently proposed that to hold the auction at the PB might appear that they 'needed the money', (and according to a post above, perhaps they do).
The discission to allow Christies to conduct the auction was apparently signed and sealed, but here's where it gets silly! A number of people have been 'fed' information that all the machines have already been shipped to Christies' Midlands warehouse, but Christies know nothing about it. And here's the rub! Christies have now shut the department, and all staff have been made redundant. So there will be no more Christies auctions of slot machines; mechanical music; scientific instruments etc.

So, as for what's going to happen to the machines and any proposed auction - I've no idea.
And neither, it would appear, do Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

Jerry

The Grabber · Post by **The Grabber** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:00 am

I have just emailed Lawrence Fisher at Christies, South Kensington to ask about this auction and I was told in an email he has left the company and if I need any help to contact the people in the collectables section.

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:13 am

If it ain't got feathers and it don't quack, chances are it ain't a duck.

By the same token if there ain't no catalogue and there ain't no marketting, then what are the chances?

Brook22 · Post by **Brook22** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:58 am

Can you tell me when this auction is taking place and also where I can obtain the catalogue from ? Thanks

JC · Post by JC » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:39 pm

Hello Laurence - good to hear from you. I hope you're feeling well now.
You may have noticed this thread seems to be going nowhere. Most of us got the message ages ago that if this sale ever goes ahead, it probably won't be with Christies.
Anyway, hope to see you in Brighton, sometime next year perhaps.

All the best

Jerry

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