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Belgian Razor Hone Coticule | eBay
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Vintage Pike's superfine Belgian razor hone. Hone measures 6" long, 1 5/16 wide and 13/16 thick. Stone is in great condition with no chips or cracks. Part of the top side of the box is missing but the label is in great shape.
Ships carefully packages using usps priority mail. Ships CONUS only.
Thanks for looking.
Ya mean I did good selling that stone for that much?
Har har just kidding.
Hopefully he or she gets paid.. People who run up items and don't deserve to be banned but they just get wrist slaps...
$660 plus they are trying to charge for shipping????
It was an open auction... Two guys bid it up to that level...
Ha! I was watching this one. Couldn't believe it. This was for a 6" version. I posted a 7" version up here a couple weeks ago with the original stamps and didn't get a sniff. Maybe I'll throw it up on the bay after seeing this go for this much.
And therein eBay is explained - that there is in fact, no explanation for why items go for the prices they do on any given item, on any given day....by all rights, you should expect $900 bux plus shipping for yours!!!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by scag315
I've almost always done better on eBay but I just hate paying that damn 10% + 3% for paypal. Oh well. $300 for that extra inch of stone? Sounds like i'm listing it tonight! Just need to copy and paste his listing with my own pics haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
I've seen Pikes coticules fetch good money before. Not sure why. Someone might know something about them that we don't.
I betcha he bought this at some flea market or antique store for $20.00, then hits gold because 2 people are idiots. JMHO of course. It can't be any better than a 8k Norton or a 12k Shapton. I wonder if the guy is going to put it on his book case shelf just say "look what I have!" or is actually planning on using it for what its made for?.
Pike coticules are top quality but that is enough to buy a les latneuses hybrid and a labeled escher.... or any number of options. It makes me feel like throwing a pike up full of stamps still for a dumb bin...
I just offered the guy in Russia $1000 for his Escher. BIN $2500
Glad he didnt take me up on that offer.
Crazy times on the bay.
I wouldn't even want that Escher because it's too mint, absolutely NOS, with that stamp on the face. I want a nice Escher I can actually use.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
I had an Escher with the ink stamps on the face and didn't use it for the longest time. Then I figured I wasn't going to be a curator for a museum and honed on the ink stamps. Good stone. Flattened it after I took pix of the stamps. When I sold it I got what I paid. :) But I know what you mean, it is better to get one that is full, but the ink stamps aren't an issue. BTW, that guy is asking the moon for that stone. AFAIC it is too big. Anyway ....... different strokes for different folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldragon
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Sold one like it for a fraction of that price.
~Richard
[QUOTE=JimmyHAD;1625906]I had an Escher with the ink stamps on the face and didn't use it for the longest time. Then I figured I wasn't going to be a curator for a museum and honed on the ink stamps. Good stone. Flattened it after I took pix of the stamps. When I sold it I got what I paid. :) But I know what you mean, it is better to get one that is full, but the ink stamps aren't an issue. BTW, that guy is asking the moon for that stone. AFAIC it is too big. Anyway ....... different strokes for different folks.
That is exactly what I told the guy. I am going to put this stone into service. My current YG Thuri is the size of my finger. I would like the providence, but I will take no papers and that unique egde over names anyday.
I dont care if you Graduated with honors from Harvard. How many procedures have you done this year? lifetime?
What is your personal mortality and morbidity rate before you touch me.
Its like a woman she may be pretty but if she doesnt bring anything to the table she is of no use to me.
Lastly which would I rather have for the grand? A custommade razor with my input from a artisan, or a Big Escher, when I own all the other important hones.
You are correct - not seeing a lot of stuff that even makes me want to bid anymore, and what's there is astronomical in price.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
I have that Escher I've posted several times, NOS in the original wooden box, stamps, labels, all intact, and paid a 1/3 of what that guy was asking.....crazy times indeed.:confused:
I am looking for a YG Escher. Would take a No papers one. But not for these numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
Clinically speaking these hones are for straight razors. How do you see the growth curve for that over a 10 year period?
Lastly I have had to open several cases against sellers from China within the last month. No product ever arrives. Global problems are effecting my online flea market.
Looks like someone else wants to test the waters with another Pike Coticule now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Belgian-Razo...3D272217326314
That's scag from above. Nothing against his listing, but I'd hate to buy a coticule like that only to find that it's about as good as other fine coticules.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
Coticules mostly fall in a broadly similar spectrum with the odd coarser one and the odd stupidly fine one thrown in the mix. Kind of why they are so much fun to buy. A lottery ticket
