56 button Wheatstone on Ebay this week...???

[robert stewart]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353204139890    Looks like a fabulous instrument, made by Steve Dickinson. But wait...what do you notice that is odd about some of the photographs?

 

I do not want to give any hints, but I think something looks strange...

 

best wishes to all, Robert

[Tiposx]

No I don't get it.

[alex_holden]

They are holding it wrong?

[Geoff Wooff]

The only  thing I  can  point out is in the text.    Steve  Dickinson  was  not  living in   Thornham Magna  in 1975  so  I'd think this  instrument  dates  from  the  early  1980's.

A  Tennor Treble  by the looks of it...  very  nice  too.

[John Wild]

44 minutes ago, Geoff Wooff said:

The only  thing I  can  point out is in the text.    Steve  Dickinson  was  not  living in   Thornham Magna  in 1975  so  I'd think this  instrument  dates  from  the  early  1980's.

A  Tennor Treble  by the looks of it...  very  nice  too.

I believe the Thornam Magna address predated the current Stowmarket address. I do not know when the move happened.

[John Wild]

"In 1975 Steve Dickinson resurrected the company and re-started production with concertinas beginning with serial #60000. This Original 1975 Wheatstone Concertina in this auction is number 60088."

 

This suggests that Steve Dickinson produced at least 89 new instruments in 1975, which seems on the high side. Does anyone here have a record of the annual production rate from 1975?

60088 was probably later than 1975.

 

I own no.60095, which I purchased as new in 1989, though that was from Brian Hayden, not directly from Steve Dickinson.

Edited September 18, 2020 by John Wild
typing correction.

[rcr27]

This? 
 

[David Barnert]

13 hours ago, robert stewart said:

what do you notice that is odd about some of the photographs?

 

Index fingers through thumb loops?

 

[Stephen Chambers]

1 hour ago, David Barnert said:

 

Index fingers through thumb loops?

 

 

Yes, but it's being sold by a consignment company, not a player, so hardly surprising...

[RAc]

Possibly the TO is puzzled about the seemingly missing backgrounds in some of the photos? It is my understanding, however, that these effects can be created by professional or semi professional photographers employing lighting techniques.

 

[Richard Mellish]

I think the bidding has a long way to go above the present $710.

[Geoff Wooff]

17 minutes ago, Richard Mellish said:

I think the bidding has a long way to go above the present $710.

Anyone  prepared  to  suggest , or  guess,   what  the  final  figure  will be ?

[robert stewart]

8 hours ago, rcr27 said:

This? 
 

 

 

Does that look like a metal end plate on the LHS?  And do some of the other pics show a metal edge on the LHS?

 

 

[alex_holden]

2 minutes ago, robert stewart said:

Does that look like a metal end plate on the LHS?  And do some of the other pics show a metal edge on the LHS?

 

I think it's just an illusion, white light reflecting off the polished wood.

[David Barnert]

4 hours ago, Richard Mellish said:

I think the bidding has a long way to go above the present $710.

 

It was at $150 when I first saw it on Wednesday.

[rcr27]

39 minutes ago, robert stewart said:

 

 

Does that look like a metal end plate on the LHS?  And do some of the other pics show a metal edge on the LHS?

 

 

No, not at all, it was just a light reflection.
 

[David Barnert]

14 hours ago, John Wild said:

"In 1975 Steve Dickinson resurrected the company and re-started production with concertinas beginning with serial #60000. This Original 1975 Wheatstone Concertina in this auction is number 60088."

 

This suggests that Steve Dickinson produced at least 89 new instruments in 1975, which seems on the high side. Does anyone here have a record of the annual production rate from 1975?

60088 was probably later than 1975.

 

I own no.60095, which I purchased as new in 1989, though that was from Brian Hayden, not directly from Steve Dickinson.

 

I have 60082, a Hayden, and also previously owned by Brian. I was told it was built in the mid 1980s. Clearly the seller is either mistaken or mistyped. The instrument in question was not built in 1975.

[John Wild]

12 hours ago, David Barnert said:

 

I have 60082, a Hayden, and also previously owned by Brian. I was told it was built in the mid 1980s. Clearly the seller is either mistaken or mistyped. The instrument in question was not built in 1975.

I was told mine was the last of a batch of 10 which Brian ordered from Steve Dickinson.