Vintage Radio Auction Chorley 3-6-18
 

Specialist vintage radio auction, Adlington Community Centre, Railway Road, Adlington, Chorley, PR6 9RF, 3rd June 2018, commencing noon. Organised by Rob Rusbridge. No connection to any other organisation; this one is my own. Details from http://www.steamradios.com my very own (every expense spared) web site. Already have some nice things entered. Previews & catalogue on web site in due course. Entries welcome. Hall would hold 1000 lots if it had to. Feel free to spread the word to all your friends. All welcome. No need to be a member of anything except the human race. Time the Frozen North got a decent auction of its own. Close to M6, M61, venue is just off the A6. Cornish pasties and other refreshments available on auction day.

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Added to the calendar.

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Ooooh, I'll be there!

It's grim up north, but we're a friendly bunch and hardly ever bite!;D

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Date noted. I hope to be there, seeing that it's the closest event I've seen for a long time.

As far as the sparsity of events is concerned, I would support the idea that it is indeed grim up north.

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Hi Rob, great idea and I trust it will be a success. Unfortunately I'll be away when it is on (but look forward to the catalogue).
If successful I look forward to it being repeated.

Ed

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Obviously I'm hoping it will be repeated. I am already discussing subsequent auctions with a couple of vendors who need to downsize (yes, I know, we're all sniggering at that) but have too much old stuff to sort and won't be ready for June 3rd. Well, the stuff arrives on Saturday 2nd June, which gives them even less time.

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... and worse still, I assume it needs to be sorted and notified in time for inclusion in the catalogue.

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Wonderful .... an auction on my doorstep. It has my full support!

Mark

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Putting things into the catalogue is very much a simple process involving me typing the stuff into the database, then generating a new catalogue from the database, making it to pdf format, and ftp'ing it to the website for perusal. Stuff notified on the Wednesday before the auction is early enough to be in the catalogue. Clearly it won't be in the catalogue for long, but there we are. If a seller is not too worried about their stuff going into the catalogue, I can easily type it into the database on Saturday night and have it on the auctioneer's sheets for the next day. I can enter things on Sunday morning if I have to. I have been doing auction admin for several years now, and I have occasionally been adding late entries into the auction while the auctioneer is already well advanced with his arcane art of squawking and banging. The auction is only as good as the office set-up. My office set-up has been tried and tested in the gritty world of Cornish pop-up tat auctions, and if it can survive seven hundred lots on a wet Tuesday evening in Lanhydrock, it can do anything. The pillock using it, of course, needs to stay alert as well...

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Rob, this sounds great. Your evidently pragmatic and professional approach to such things as the catalogue inspires confidence. If I'm free on the day I shall be there. Best of luck.
Regards,
Richard

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Thanks for explaining the flexible approach to cataloguing - that there may well be extra goodies on the day!

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I hope to be there - only half an hour away from me so i will try my best to support this. :-)

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I've got the first six sellers on side. Two prolific sellers of long standing (nice to be taken seriously) one seller for charity, two beginning "jolly interesting" clear-outs, and one who is selling just one thing. Wouldn't dream of poking fun at the man selling just one thing; it's one of those Ericsson phones from the 1970s, this one with push-button dialling underneath and unused, in original BT packing. Photo when I get my hands on it! I think I'm about a hundred lots in at this stage, but awaiting lists so hard to be sure.

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By which I assume you mean the Ericofon, sometimes nicknamed the cobra phone, but the later "700" version.

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Sounds good, look forward to seeing you there and picking up a nice project for the summer.
Geoff R.

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Hi Rob, how goes the catalogue?
Any chance of early previews to whet our appetites?


Ed

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I'd missed that despite being on the Forum and a Radiophile subscriber. Worth going just to see a well known magazine author/supporter-famous for transporting aged sheds from one county to another!

Dave W

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Catalogue coming on, I'm pleased to report, but still awaiting some usable pictures of the star lots. Won't be long now for the first draft. Just had a pile of new lots notified to me. More valves, a comms rx, and a load of other things. Items coming to light (and to auction) which haven't been seen even by their owners for years. A wide diversity of wondrous old tat. Further entries welcome and invited. Prompt payment!!! Rob.

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Slight technical hitch. Can anyone put me in contact with an auctioneer who might fancy doing a bit of squawking and banging on 3rd June? Bit of a let-down has occurred. I could do it myself, but I suspect you'd rather I didn't.

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Any news on a replacement Auctioneer Rob? Is your event going ahead? I will get to Chorley if I'm around but may stay on the coast if there's any doubt! I'm sure you would get a good turnout for your independent event.

Cheers,

Dave W

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That's good, I've always feared the concentration of auctions down in the South East corner had drained all the likely stuff out of the North.

David

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It's not really all in the South East David. More like North London and Wiltshire! Golborne at Warrington is an excellent source even though it's not an auction venue and Radiophile events are definetely north of Watford. Still no news on Chorley!.

Dave W

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Here's the news.
Loads of lots coming in, but mostly to me in Cornwall. It's going to be quite a task loading van and trailer. Plenty of variety. A run of record players and gramophones, a run of 1980s home computers (ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum, BBC B, even an Oric 1) plenty of nice old radios to include a Philco 444 People's set, an old Leak TL12, a reasonable number of valves, some old telephone equipment, and even a few grot-boxes.
Auctioneer will be me, my son Thomas in the office on the computer, churning out invoices as required. Will be able to take payment by plastic cards due to new PayPal card machine.
Will be in the hall setting up on Saturday 2nd June. Auction 12 noon 3rd June. Viewing from early morning, day of sale. Am charging 10% buyers premium, so can afford to pay a porter or two; not expecting anyone to work for nothing.
Also need someone to volunteer for kitchen duty. Making tea and coffee and selling pre-packed sandwiches and pasties. I will have the food hygiene certificate by then, so no need for helpers to have one themselves. Not much point in me trying to help out in the kitchen. I only make foul tea and I'm allergic to milk as well...
Particularly need help with holding up the lots as they are sold, and packing away afterwards. We have a five to seven hour journey to get home; don't want to be there still packing away at bed time.
Anyone who fancies helping out with portering or kitchen duty feel free to PM.
Trying to sort out the catalogue right now, but things keep popping up and needing a little re-jig to the running order. There's no point in putting a lovely thing as the last lot when a piece "of less merit" can be demoted. Should have a draft out soon. Around 300 lots. Pictures will also be out soon.
Auction is most certainly going ahead. Should be good fun. Prep work going well. I even remembered to print out and laminate the Auctions (Bidding Agreements) Act 1969, which has to be displayed by law but seldom is seen in pop-up auctions.
Still not too late for last-minute lots. Let me know if there's something you'd like to bring along and sell off. Shame to come along with an empty car? As long as I know what you're bringing, and there's not too much of it, you can bring it along on the morning of the sale.

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Hot news. Will be selling Mary's Pasties. Very popular in Cornwall. Made in Grampound Road. Never been exported to Lancashire before!

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It's getting a bit busy here. I have just been offered a National HRO with unusually nice power supply, paperwork, 4 coils and things like headphones, and in a proper old MoD package at that. I haven't got hold of it yet, so let's hope that does "come to pass".

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I'm glad to know that it is going ahead. I was a little concerned when you said that no auctioneer was available. I look forward to it.

I cannot, however, see any mention of the sellers' premium.

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In the terms of business pdf it says the vendor's premium is 15%.
John

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Charging sellers 15% and buyers 10%. Computer doesn't have any trouble with working out 15% in a flash, but human brain much happier with working out 10% in a flash, which is important when you're bidding. I don't want to discourage the buyers. It's fun running an auction. You need to get best prices for your sellers, deliver bargains to your buyers, and pay all the costs involved, while still ending up with a few quid for the work involved. I figure all you can do is your best, and be nice to everyone as you go...

AND the CCTV system had the decency to work first time when I tested it. Things are looking up.

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I should have read the small print!

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All sellers will receive in the post a Manifest of the lots they have entered. The letters are spending their Bank Holiday evening festering in the post box down at the sorting office, but they are all wearing first class stamps and should be with you soon. Where necessary, lot number labels are enclosed, as are directions for finding Adlington Community Centre. Looking forward to meeting you on Saturday. Thanks for your lots.

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I look forward to seeing the catalogue once it's ready enough for publication.

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First draft of catalogue on website at www.steamradios.com and ready for perusal. Only goes to lot 201 at the moment. Working on improving that right now. The National HRO did materialise. Looking good. Now, if we could just get rid of this thunder storm so I could load some more into the van...

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Second draft of catalogue now on www.steamradios.com for you. If you downloaded the first draft, before the time of this post, you will have misleading and/or disappointing descriptions of some valves. They have just arrived here and on checking I found that some are not as good as described by the seller. It's worth pointing out that we have to use the seller's descriptions in the catalogue, in general, so it's well worth inspecting the goods before purchasing. Luckily, I got hold of these before the event and checked them.

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First rash of pictures.

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More pictures. Trailer filling up fast.

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Count me in !

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Pasties ordered, sandwiches ordered, van and trailer completely full. A few little jobs in the morning, then we're ready to roll.

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Hopefully, see y'all Sunday.

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Final version of the catalogue online at www.steamradios.com however there will be some more lots arriving Saturday and Sunday. Some of them sound very interesting. The word Quad has been mentioned... In the meantime, I finally got round to taking some pictures of the Ericofon Cobra.

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Hi Rob, I am unable to attend. I hope it goes well for you.


John, from nr Hull.

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It looks like an Ericofon 700.

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Good luck Rob, I hope it is a huge success, and the first of many.

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Rob, thank you so much for driving for 9 hours and holding a great auction.

You deserve a medal!

I sincerely hope that this will happen every year.

Now, where am I going to put that Philips mono knob?

More pasties please. :thumbsup:

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Great fun indeed Rob, thanks for all your hard work and here's to the next one :clap:
Now, where the 'eck do I put all this trash err treasure I bought ? ;)

Marc.

PS, More pasties please ! ;D

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May I add my thanks for an enjoyable event. Even though I didn't end up spending more than £10 on any one lot, I still ended up spending more than I should - and acquired more than I have room for!

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Thanks Rob, a good event.

My dilemma as to whether I should restore a DAC90 or DAC90A is now resolved.

I now own a nice example of each!

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A smashing day out, some unusual lots and some good prices.
You are welcome to the monoknob, the last one drove be round the bowden cable bend.
Thanks Rob for bringing all the gear north, oh, and the genuine pasties too.
Glad to help, very generous. You may have got home before us, extended meal on the way back to Middlewich.

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... and I must have bought one of the most unusual. Unfortunately, I was bidding on behalf of another forum member for that item, so I don't get to keep it.

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Thanks to everyone for making that event a really solid start. I will be finding another date and going for the second in the series. From that seed we can build up something really worth having. There are a lot of really nice people Up North and it's a shame they've been ignored so long. Those pasties sold out quick and lively. I shall bring more next time. In fact, the same pasties are available in small size (known as a cocktail pasty - but don't float them in your Pina Colada) so I'm tempted to impale three on a big stick and sell 'em as a Wigan kebab! Perhaps I should expand the range to include Barnet Fayre's locally-famous "Windy Pie". It's the perfect storm!!!

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Unfortunately a series of unforseen events kept me in Sussex rather than at home in Rammy Rob but I'm so pleased it went well for you! I used to go to Radio Rallies in the Leisure Centre in Chorley quite a few years back. It's a bit of a Railway centre historically,so there is a technical link there [ie Railway Road]. A female poet from Chorley was on the Radio this morning and said it was just a "little Market Town". I'm wondering how you ended up there in the first place-is there a local link for you? How big was the attendance in the end? I will certainly get there next time. As you say, there are not so many Northern events but I do get to Golborne if I can! I'm having a "Bexhill Cornish Pastie" for my lunch-good but not the real thing I'm sure:thumbsup:

Dave W