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1949threepence

Heads up on the late Hiram Brown penny collection auction

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Sorry Mike i dont even know anyone called Gary 😂 my heads whirling with the medication.

He just opened at £700 , the hammer went down and the auctioneer  said " Hat off Mike " 

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Just now, Rob said:

Wood is a book bidder.

An individual or just code for a book bidder ?

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13 minutes ago, PWA 1967 said:

Sorry Mike i dont even know anyone called Gary 😂 my heads whirling with the medication.

He just opened at £700 , the hammer went down and the auctioneer  said " Hat off Mike " 

@Bronze & Copper Collector is called Gary, I think.

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9 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

@Bronze & Copper Collector is called Gary, I think.

B&C Collector is Gary Schindler, from New York. He has about every variety of Victorian Copper/Bronze know to man! LOL.

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23 minutes ago, secret santa said:

An individual or just code for a book bidder ?

Book bidder. Mr Wood would have to have very deep pockets to have won the number of lots knocked down to him over the years.

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I was happy with my three pennies.......all silver, and hammered to boot! Most pleased with the Stephen from the Hereford Mint at £480 hammer. But sadly I know my late mate Ray Inder paid £800 for it.......😕.

Yes, the 1860 E over P was ridiculously cheap, even though it is a little battered around the edges. And lot 580 did OK despite being mis-described in the catalogue. I feel that DNW is more of a buyers than a sellers market for the bronze series,  over several recent auctions.

Jerry

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32 minutes ago, jelida said:

And lot 580 did OK despite being mis-described in the catalogue.

I thought that it would do a lot better - it was so obviously an F14, in a decent grade albeit with severe die cracks.

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58 minutes ago, jelida said:

I was happy with my three pennies.......all silver, and hammered to boot! Most pleased with the Stephen from the Hereford Mint at £480 hammer. But sadly I know my late mate Ray Inder paid £800 for it.......😕.

Yes, the 1860 E over P was ridiculously cheap, even though it is a little battered around the edges. And lot 580 did OK despite being mis-described in the catalogue. I feel that DNW is more of a buyers than a sellers market for the bronze series,  over several recent auctions.

Jerry

Yes - I went for the Silver hammered as well. Picked up an Edward the Elder to fill a gap and a nice Henry II as an upgrade. That is about all I can justify spending at the moment.

 

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1 hour ago, secret santa said:

I thought that it would do a lot better - it was so obviously an F14, in a decent grade albeit with severe die cracks.

Realised £750 hammer, so was obviously recognised. I wonder if it went for a bit less than might have been expected because Lot 582 was also an F14, and described as such. That fetched £800 hammer.  

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4 hours ago, Rob said:

Wood is a book bidder.

Not a hard bid?

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14 hours ago, Rob said:

Book bidder. Mr Wood would have to have very deep pockets to have won the number of lots knocked down to him over the years.

Is this a DNW peculiarity or a general auction custom ? I've never heard it before.

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13 minutes ago, secret santa said:

Is this a DNW peculiarity or a general auction custom ? I've never heard it before.

I think its just the one auctioneer at DNW ,i have never heard anyone else say it.Sometimes when DNW use someone else they dont say it either.

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Glens used to be Graham, Spink was Goddard and Sotheby used a range of names where there was no bidder - cf the Freeman sale.

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DNW sometimes put in a minimum bid for a non-starter (ie put a bid on it themselves if none other is forthcoming), so possibly no-one bought the 1860 F6a proof penny. I know this because they offered me a swap for a coin I bought a few years ago (someone else had put in a considerably higher max bid on the internet but their computer system had missed it - oops). Anyway, their offered swap was a "discounted" coin that supposedly sold at their auction the day before. Fortunately I'd paid for the coin by then so I wasn't tempted - their swap coin was not very tempting either (a corroded tin farthing), discount or no discount!

Probably most auctioneers do this - I knew LCA did.

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I listened to the F6A bidding and there were several bids so I think someone bought it - they'll be disappointed.

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3 hours ago, secret santa said:

Is this a DNW peculiarity or a general auction custom ? I've never heard it before.

So does this Mr Wood actually exist or not? The next obvious question. 

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57 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

So does this Mr Wood actually exist or not? The next obvious question. 

If he does, then he has the best coin collection in the world.

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He has bought maybe close to 50% of all DNW lots over the past 25 years. Some collection, but still lacking in the top pieces as these nearly always go to people in the room or phone bidders.

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Sorry to derail the conversation on Wood! I’ve often laughed at the way they spew that term.  

I am unable to sign on to live bidding at DNW on Apple iPhone or iPad.  Does anyone else have that problem? They don’t take Adobe or whatever system (can’t recall which) .

 

 

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10 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

So does this Mr Wood actually exist or not? The next obvious question. 

You want hard evidence? ;)

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9 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

You want hard evidence? ;)

I'm gonna knock...on wood :ph34r:

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2 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

I'm gonna knock...on wood :ph34r:

Ouch!! :o:blink:

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Astounded how quickly my DNW auction win from the Hiram Brown collection, has arrived. Only paid yesterday. 

I also noticed that the invoice was posted in my account within 3 hours of the win, and the procedure to pay online could not have been more user friendly . That's a welcome departure from previously, when even several days afterwards, all you would see was the previous invoice, and you had to ring them to pay. 

Well done DNW. I actually managed to do something online without it being overly time consuming, complex and annoying. Kudos to them. 

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Michael Gouby has just told me that the "F6A Proof" has been returned to DNW - surprise, surprise !

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