32 Button Lachenal

[Marien]

Just saw it on ebay, it looks good. It is a private listing. Anyone seen this concertina before?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Concertina-very-old_...1QQcmdZViewItem

Edited July 17, 2007 by marien

[Paul Read]

Interesting that this is already at GBP1021 when a much nicer fully restored one with new bellows didn't sell at C$1600 (less than GBP800) only a couple of weeks ago!

[Stephen Chambers]

Interesting that this is already at GBP1021 when a much nicer fully restored one with new bellows didn't sell at C$1600 (less than GBP800) only a couple of weeks ago!

And it sold for that early high bid too (I wonder just how high they were prepared to go? ) It's a lot of money for one of these that needs restoring, yet a restored mahogany-ended one failed to sell tonight (only attracting a bid of £310).

 

The world's gone mad!

 

And to think that the first one I ever sold (back in the mid 70s) was for £30, and the guy thought he'd paid a fortune for it ...

[Marien]

The world's gone mad!

 

And to think that the first one I ever sold (back in the mid 70s) was for £30, and the guy thought he'd paid a fortune for it ...

 

If I remember well there was a similar rosewood lachenal 30b that went for £1800 about a month ago.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the mid 70s for just one day... or even better, to 1910 to by me a new top end concertina.

[PeterT]

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the mid 70s for just one day... or even better, to 1910 to buy me a new top end concertina.

Alternatively, buy now and live a long time!

 

Regards,

Peter.

[Stephen Chambers]

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the mid 70s for just one day... or even better, to 1910 to by me a new top end concertina.

I have (kind-of) combined the two: Back in the mid 70s I answered an advertisement offering a Wheatstone Æola English concertina for sale, and when I met the seller at Brixton Station it turned out to be a "one owner (his father-in-law) from new" 56-key treble instrument from 1910 in fantastic condition that I was very happy to give him £90 for (but that was quite a lot of money at the time, though relatively less than the £22 that it would have cost in 1910). It was in the original high-pitch tuning, but it sounded so good and played so well that I refused to alter it.

 

Another time (back then) I bought a 1930s rosewood-ended Wheatstone, in East London, off the man who had bought it new in the 1930s and wanted to get back the price he had payed for it. Though it needed work; I was very happy to offer him twice as much!