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CEParagon124 - Posted - 11/12/2014: 13:52:25
Someone is auctioning multiple "Folk Instruments" on Ebay via a live auction method which requires one to register separately from Ebay.
A bit confusing to me.
There are several banjos, violins, ukes, etc.
This is the most interesting one in appearance.
I have no idea as to its "Folk" authenticity.
Sixty dollars opens the bidding.
ebay.com/itm/201210931813?_trk...BIDX%3AIT
Charlie Noyes
Edited by - CEParagon124 on 11/12/2014 13:58:58
davidwigal - Posted - 11/12/2014: 14:26:48
Wow that is really cool; do you think that the tuners are hand-made?
Rick Turner - Posted - 11/12/2014: 14:34:54
If the tuners weren't hand made, they were made on a really funky machine!
I love how lame these auction house descriptions are..."hide" and "body". The tiniest bit of research would set them straight.
CEParagon124 - Posted - 11/12/2014: 14:42:08
Only the one photo.
I posted this because I know there are a few known makers of this type banjo from bygone days.
I was hoping someone could ID the workmanship and acquire a vintage prizefrom a known craftsman.
This thing might be junk, as a few of the other items they've listed look exactly like that is what they are.
I get the feeling they are trying to appear as though these auctions are some sort of museum deacquisition, which I suppose they could be.
Charlie Noyes
CEParagon124 - Posted - 11/12/2014: 15:08:00
Apparently, a bonafide Massachusetts auction house, Eldred's.
Lots of interesting items listed by them. Some nice looking signed fiddles and guitars.
Charlie Noyes
Edited by - CEParagon124 on 11/12/2014 15:10:23
jun3machina - Posted - 11/13/2014: 11:16:17
Cool...but really only 1 picture?!
davidwigal - Posted - 11/13/2014: 19:38:24
Wow that speaker one is pretty cool; and check-out that bling on the peg-head 
Rick Turner - Posted - 11/13/2014: 19:42:29
The bed pan one, now that's the sh.t!
CEParagon124 - Posted - 11/13/2014: 20:27:13
The bedpan banjo would be helpful during a long gig onstage.
Just turn it around.
Do you have to hook the speaker banjo to a twelve volt
Battery?
Charlie
Edited by - CEParagon124 on 11/13/2014 20:29:51
G Edward Porgie - Posted - 11/14/2014: 08:23:33
Was that bedpan instrument the origin of the banjo term "pot?"
These are most probably museum pieces, but that says nothing about quality, age, ar much else. There are museams devoted to all kinds of useless things. I once read of a place where you could see the world's largest ball of string, and I clearly remember the signs along the old U.S highways advertising "The Thing," which was supposedly an authentic Native American mummy. There were several of those places, and the "mummy" was always exhibited with a bunch of bead necklaces and other worthless "artifacts." Years ago, my family stopped at one of those "museums" just to see how fake it was. At 50 cents, it at least provided a good laugh.
