Reeman Dansie auction

[aristomatic]

See there are a gaggle of machines listed here. Was this someone's collection? They look to be in a better condition cosmetically, than average?

[coppinpr]

Listed where? Is this one of their general auctions of their antique style auction?

[badpenny]

It's the specialist collectors' sale showing estimated values fresh from the 1980s.

I think the most fascinating one is lot 3601 ......

German hand-cranked sausage-stuffing machine, manufactured by Dick

[treefrog]

I think aristo has forgotten the unwritten rule I thought when the Morphys sale happened BP or Andy may have noticed the Coronet, never mind

This is my local auction and seen a few sales of interesting stuff in the last couple of years. Most of this stuff is big '70s - '80s arcade kit, so I suspect it had come from one of the Clacton arcades or somewhere similar, based on previous Marshalls sale.

Will view Saturday, but little of interest to me fortunately. The roll out the barrel looks a little odd, also their auction fees are stupid now.... bring back the 10 to 15% auctions.

[badpenny]

I think aristo has forgotten the unwritten rule I thought when the Morphys sale happened BP or Andy may have noticed the Coronet, never mind

I know you got shouted at TF when you were nowt but a tree tadpole for making others here aware of a machines auction, however I've always taken the view that if it's on the internet it's in the public domain.

Even if I'd known of the Coronet I still wouldn't have bid, I have a rule about how much I'll risk paying for a machine sight unseen, and it's not much.
I've attended many live auctions with a machine for sale and having seen how poor its condition is I've then stood in amazement as the internet bids go above the value of a perfect machine. They must be proper hacked when they finally clap eyes on it.
Some have been heard to mutter about the poor condition versus description of machines bought from slot dedicated auctions after leaving a commission bid.
You're right TF there is an unwritten rule, I however do not give a jot.

PS Enjoy the auction this weekend and I hope you get The Sausage Maker.

[coppinpr]

German hand-cranked sausage-stuffing machine, manufactured by Dick

I've got two of those if you want one BP, one upright one horizontal, also one electric one if your age restricts the hand cranking.

[treefrog]

Oddly BP you do follow the unwritten rule whether you realise it or not... Typically people care less if they have no interested in any specific item; people would take a different view if they did.

My point I suspect was not about you, as I know you would have not bid, but others. Who knows? ....

Anywayzzz, as you say it is all on the net, but it is surprising how many people do miss things even some of our keanest collectors, which is why it took me a long time to understand this... In this case I care less for the above reason. Nothing there interests me, but that of course may not have been the case.

At the end of the day, things will get to where they get to irrespective of wider publication and this auction house is a major player.

[badpenny]

I've got two of those if you want one BP, one upright one horizontal, also one electric one if your age restricts the hand cranking

Ah .... but! Who are they made by?
It's all part of the attraction.

[youngerap]

I am one of those poor fools who bought a machine unseen via the 'net. It was an Aristocrat Sheerline and, upon delivery, it did not even get through the door: the case collapsed when the courier removed it from his van! Luckily, the mechanism was good and my son constructed a new case (from MDF!) using the old as a template. The rebuild was fun and it still looks great and works a treat. I may dispose of the other bandits, but I will never sell that one.

Back when money grew on trees and I bought machines, I did not know of the 'unwritten rule' and unwittingly rabbitted on about machines coming up for auction. I had no idea I was winding people up. But when I was told I found it funny that they were upset when half the hobby world receives an email telling them the auction is coming up and what is in it. Keeping an auction quiet is next to impossible anyhow when it is in any auction house' interest to get the word out to as many folk as possible and more so if they open the bidding to the internet. Does Google understand the 'unwritten rule'? As for me, I cannot afford to buy these machines anymore and so, even if I did get curious about a machine being offered at auction, I would wait until after the auction to ask the Gurus about it rather than risk pricing anyone else out of a machine they want to buy.

[treefrog]

Well I went along being so close and was suprised to see at least two other well known collectors/operators. Well I guess I should not have been really.

These amusements were split into two sources: the wall machines were from a local collector, but all the machines with number badges look like they came from the same arcade. The larger machines and rides were from another local source.

Prices I guess they were not a surprise and no bargains for the day except the large early '70s Cops and Robbers arcade machine by Kasco, the untouchables. Huge thing but looked great and, looking on the internet, popular in the US. Think it sold for a 100 quid.

[jimmycowman]

Any pictures of the machines

[treefrog]

They were all online, but the wall machines below