Fs: The Oldest Concertina Ever?

[adrian brown]

It's here! - seller claims "THIS INSTRUMENT DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 1800s !!!!"

 

the world's only Napoleonic concertina perhaps :) :)

 

 

[Wolf Molkentin]

Might be this one:

...albeit it had been turning out otherwise for little Napoleon as we all know...

[Stephen Chambers]

The seller keeps cancelling all bids and ending the listing early and he's now changed the wording to say:

 

 

I HAVE FOR SALE A C JEFFERIES ANGLO 32 BUTTON 6 BELLOWS CONCERTINA WHICH MY GRAND FATHER GAVE TO ME WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY I HAVE DECIDED TO PUT IT ON EBAY JUST TO SEE WHAT INTEREST AND WHAT IT WILL BE WORTH TO A VERY SERIOUS AND GENUINE BUYER I HAVE RESEARCHED THESE TYPE OF CONCERTINAS AND DISCOVERED THAT THEY ARE A VERY VERY RARE ITEM SO ON THAT NOTE I SHALL WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE OUT COME WILL BE . THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST ...
CASH ON COLLECTION BUYER TO COLLECT .
OBVIOUSLY NOT NANY OF YOU REALISE WHAT WE ARE DEALING WTH HERE THIS INSTRUMENT DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 1800s !!!!

ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GIVING ME TECHNICAL ADVICE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE INSTRUMENT WHEN AND DATE THEY WERE MADE ETC BUT SEEMS TO ME NO ONE WANTS TO BUY IT I THNK ITS TIME TO PUT IT BACK IN MY DISPLAY CABINET AND KEEP IT THANYOU FOR YOUR INTEREST I WILL END IT BEFORE 12 hours .....
Contact me on 07521400312

 

I don't know if he's just "testing the waters" and trying to gauge what it could be worth, but not actually sell it (there were house sellers like that in Ireland, back in the so-called "Celtic Tiger" days ), or if he's looking for offers outside of eBay, seeing that he's given his phone number (against eBay rules) in the listing.