Very nice Rudall & Rose at Sotheby's next week

[RudallRose]

did i screw it up and put sotheby's instead of bonhams?
duh

okay.....sotheby's was the day before on my calendar so i clearly mixed them up.
no accounting for stupid.

[RudallRose]

i should note that this is a "new discovery" for the catalogue.
I had it's "kissing" sister registered, one serial number higher.
there are very few consecutively numbered rudalls catalogued and only one pair of consecutively numbered flutes are with the same owner. Interesting factoid.

[radcliff]

Sold for £2,125 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
any luck for one of us?
Lovely looking flute!

[RudallRose]

darn good price. (~$3,300) That flute should have gotten $4xxx easily.

damn economy.

[jemtheflute]

darn good price. (~$3,300) That flute should have gotten $4xxx easily.

damn economy.

Yeah. A bit better than the last couple of eBay ones, but not by much! Looks like now's the best time in ages to buy original R&Rs - if you have the readies!

[RudallRose]

Looks like now's the best time in ages to buy original R&Rs

indeed
but a horrible time to sell the ones you have.

a classic push-me-pull-you scenario.

[fsharp]

I think this flutes in The Early Music Shop UK in their rare and antique instruments collection. No piccy, same description as the auction house and a price of £5,310.

[Kirk B]

Is Sotheby's the same auction house as Bonham's?

they are distinctively different houses

Ah, well this one's at Bonham's then.

Besides the repaired cracks in the head and barrel, the foot joint blocks look funny, like they've been re-worked, too. Also, the wood looks kind of cruddy around both sides of the Eb block.

Note that the low C & C# keys are stuck in the closed position, when they should be open.

And It almost looks like the foot joint keys have been soldered where they pass through the blocks. Either that or there's tarnish right there on both of them.

[Flutesoftheforest]

It is very interesting to see the value that The Early Music Shop puts on their instruments. I know from first hand experience that their prices are based on doubling the original price (plus buyer's premium) that they pay when buying them at auction. Perhaps this is why they have not sold many yet !!!!!

Martin

[Jon C.]

And It almost looks like the foot joint keys have been soldered where they pass through the blocks. Either that or there's tarnish right there on both of them.

Looks like tarnish to me...