Auction 76: Viaduct Candlestick

[kleenax]

Here's the auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261118112594

AECollector                $.50/minute
Stub                          $2345.56
Twocvbloke                $4291.00
Russ Kirk                   $4875.00
Sargeguy                   $5200.00
Kleenax                     $5800.00 - winner
Sold for $7,329.99


It's a Viaduct candlestick, or what's left of it. I will start out with my guess of $5,800.00

I put together a photo that I have posted below. I could have sworn something was stamped there, but I couldn't quite make it out. A fellow collector ID'd it for me.

[Russ Kirk]

Oh great Oujia board,  what price do you think this phone will bring?

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The great and powerful oujia board says

$4875

[AE_Collector]

Someone else will have to run this....Dave?just copy and paste the list of bids from the last auction into the first post on this thread.

I am on a cruise ship and Internet access is costing me 50 cents a minute!!!

Terry

[Sargeguy]

I'll get it started!

[AE_Collector]

Haha...good one sargeguy!

Terry

[stub]

             $ 2345.56   stub

[twocvbloke]

$4291 - Victor Meldrew's phone number in the later series of One foot in the grave...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tiNwOpZ68

[AE_Collector]

$7329.99 final selling price. WoW!

Looks like Ray is the winner. Good call Ray.

Terry ( still on a cruise ship in the Pacific.....Lahaina Maui to be exact)

[kleenax]

$7329.99 final selling price. WoW!

Looks like Ray is the winner. Good call Ray.

Terry ( still on a cruise ship in the Pacific.....Lahaina Maui to be exact)

Geez Terry, if this would really have been MY sale, I could have went on a cruise too! ;-)

But alas, I am sitting here at McDonalds, eating a $1.00 cheeseburger :-(

[twocvbloke]

But alas, I am sitting here at McDonalds, eating a $1.00 cheeseburger :-(

Bleugh, can't stand their cheeseburgers...

[AE_Collector]

Look at the bright side Ray, the $1 hamburger costs us $1.39 in Canada even with the $ at par!

Terry

[kleenax]

Look at the bright side Ray, the $1 hamburger costs us $1.39 in Canada even with the $ at par!

Terry

Now I'm bummed. I was asked by a "very" interested party what I thought that stick would go for, and what he should bid on it. I told him to snipe at $8500 if he really wanted it. Alas, he didn't take my advice and sniped lower and subsequently lost it.  Bummer; thought I was going to get to restore it :-(

[TelePlay]

Looking through the contests, I noticed this stick and I recently came across an article saying the Viaduct No 14 was the 5th rarest of the 50 rarest candlesticks.

http://oldtelephones.com/telephones/top-50-rarest-candlesticks/?page=5

The eBay listing (only one photo left at the auction line) seems to have been a No. 14 Viaduct deskset. The eBay photo is on the right.

Posting this now for posterity.