High sums on ebay for Classic Banjo items

[Jody Stecher]

Did anyone else notice (or bid) that Cammeyer's "My Adventuresome Banjo" was on auction on eBay and a few hours ago it went for £80.78?  Yow!  Well, it *was* signed by the author and that might explain the high price. I bid twice but nowhere close to that territory. I already have his signature, stamped into the heel of a banjo anyway. And the day before a CE Professional went for £908.55 on an eBay auction.   A great banjo no doubt but that's a lotta moolah.  Does this mean that the musical value of English banjos is at last being recognized and reflected in monetary value?

[Mike Moss]

And the day before a CE Professional went for £908.55 on an eBay auction.   A great banjo no doubt but that's a lotta moolah.

Tell me about it. I was bidding on it and lost at the last moment :(

[Trapdoor2]

Yes, I put in a bid on the book...but it never was submitted (I use a sniping program). I didn't throw enough money at it either.

I won an obscure tutor the other day...but paid too much for it. Yes, I think there are more folks out there...and some of them have deep pockets!

 

[Jody Stecher]

any confessions? did anyone here win the book or banjo?

Trapdoor2 said:

Yes, I think there are more folks out there...and some of them have deep pockets!

 

[Steve Harrison]

I'd like to know who's buying them...it doesn't sound like anyone from our group or we'd have got to hear about it...maybe there's a secret bunch of classic banjoists out there yet to be discovered!  I bought a couple of English banjos last year and certainly didn't pay over the odds...Steve.

[Mike Moss]

One of the Lost Tribes of Banjoists, perhaps?

[thereallyniceman]

Just to cheer up everyone who lost out in the auction...

Here are a couple of pics on MY CE Professional

..isn't it lovely. I bet we would all like one, he said smugly  ;-)

[marc dalmasso]

I think it 's the regular price to pay for  a CE pro . On ebay_UK , they go between 650 & 900 £ . There 's one now in the BHO  ' classified adds : 900 € ( 1000 $ or 800 £ approx ) ; The last  sold by JAT was 925 £ .

If you have such a banjo in your hands , you will see the pot is very loud , it ' a  a good "machine "

[marc dalmasso]

not me ; i had mine on ebay UK 3 years ago for 500 £ ; not too expensive but i had to change the tuners and re straight the  fingerboard

Steve Harrison said:

I'd like to know who's buying them...it doesn't sound like anyone from our group or we'd have got to hear about it...maybe there's a secret bunch of classic banjoists out there yet to be discovered!  I bought a couple of English banjos last year and certainly didn't pay over the odds...Steve.

[Richard William Ineson]

It's the unsigned copies of MAB which make the real money. I always wonder who bought this book when it was originally published, it's just a lot of name dropping and not much else, especially for the banjo fan.

[Jody Stecher]

 My comments about high prices were directed at the book.  About the banjo price I was speculating/contemplating whether at last the general high quality of english banjos was starting to be more universally recognized.