Boston Nautical Auction

[Garret]

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/cata...1&pageSize=120

Just for viewing for me with the prices, but some neat stuff.

Item # 79 is how I normally store it - oh wait, this isn't the Bilge... #69 is a beautiful wheel, but no dimensions. Judging by the wine bottle maybe 5 ft?

[Hwyl]

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[Garret]

You get an error when viewing - or trying to? Works fine for me.

Maybe try this"

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/cata...cular-auction/

[MushCreek]

25% 'buyer's premium?!? This has gotten ridiculous. I remember when auction houses were content to collect the commission, without any buyer's premium. Greedy much?

[Garret]

Buyers premiums @ auctions have gotten higher & higher. They work because people bid without considering that their $100 bid is really $125 - at least that's what some friends in the business tell me.

As I said, the prices are way too high for me (even forgetting the buyer's premium), but there is some interesting stuff to browse.

[rbgarr]

After the Savannah Olympic sailing events in 1996 I went to the auction conducted to sell off all equipment and outboard boats no longer needed. I had my eye on a trailer for our boat. I was outbid by a guy who succumbed to 'auction fever' and when he realized there was a buyer's premium and tax, and paid the total due (he hadn't told his wife he was bidding) he tracked me down to see if I'd take it off his hands. I had him over a barrel and got a good deal, less than what I'd bid. Caveat emptor.

[Garret]

Ha! Auction fever is a sight to behold. I had an auctioneer once tell me (with a smile) - "I hate people like you - you decide a max price and stick to it".

I was at a farm equipment auction & they were selling a 5' brushhog that was beat to crap. It actually had patches welded on patches & the disc for the blades wobbled 1/2 (totally shot gearbox bearings). Anyway, some "gentleman farmer" decided he had to have it & bid it up to $600. $50 for scrap woulda been more like it - but when you have 2 people who have no idea of worth & get the fever it's fun to watch.

[Boatbum]

A lot of that stuff is not really that great. Some are things you can buy for less directly form the current maker. The only thing that really caught my eye was the 1870'2 chart of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket sound. although it's condition was not that great.

[rbgarr]

Garret- We've gone to estate auctions here over the years and bought almost all of our furniture at them. I bid and won a chain hoist once and the auctioneer, a friend, wanted to make sure that anyone who bought tools was getting them in 'as is' condition. He asked me if I understood that and I said "Yes, this chain hoist never worked, doesn't now and never will." Which wasn't true but he nodded and said "You got it. That's exactly right." The house laughed. He's a good auctioneer but Covid devastated the business as far as in-person sales are concerned.

[Garret]

Garret- We've gone to estate auctions here over the years and bought almost all of our furniture at them. I bid and won a chain hoist once and the auctioneer, a friend, wanted to make sure that anyone who bought tools was getting them in 'as is' condition. He asked me if I understood that and I said "Yes, this chain hoist never worked, doesn't now and never will." Which wasn't true but he nodded and said "You got it. That's exactly right." The house laughed. He's a good auctioneer but Covid devastated the business as far as in-person sales are concerned.

Yep - my friends switched to almost all online auctions. Nowhere near as good as you can't always inspect & nowhere near as fun.