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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2019, 08:45:45 am »
I also followed it on eBay, but didn’t bid. I was busy buying all of Bruce’s offerings!

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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2019, 03:57:06 pm »
I know I was watching it on EBAY!
A truly vintage piece - looks good, too! 

Maybe 130-140 years old  :o
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2019, 03:59:25 pm »
I also followed it on eBay, but didn’t bid. I was busy buying all of Bruce’s offerings!

It's always a tough choice to decide on what to go for on ebay. Luckily in this case we both successfully bid on different items  ;)  and we can enjoy all of them on the forum  ;D
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2019, 01:25:16 am »
You got a great Christmas Present and you will have something
to enjoy for many years.
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2019, 07:56:20 am »
You got a great Christmas Present and you will have something
to enjoy for many years.

I have a confession to make... Santa was very good to me this year, and this is not the only Buckman to arrive... my Buckman collection has nearly doubled since I posted my "Buckman family picture"...  ;D

(one of them made it into the first picture in this thread  ;) )
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2019, 12:11:10 pm »
Nick, congratulations on a rare Buckman engine & workshop. I saw it early too, and sent the seller (Techantiques) the correct description as it was not described correctly. I did not bid, my Christmas funds went elsewhere.

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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2019, 08:49:22 pm »
Nick I need to have a chat with your wife.

You have 12 Christmas's a year mate  :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


 ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)



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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2019, 08:44:33 am »
Hey, Nick,

Do you think you bid on that enough times? 😁😁😁
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2019, 08:56:40 am »
Hey, Nick,

Do you think you bid on that enough times? 😁😁😁

 :D :D

I was trying to bid it up high enough so there would look like there was a lot of interest and keep it from being sold outside of ebay... has happened too many times to me in the past with rare items. I was going to stop doing this at $800, but it never reached that price. My only serious bid was placed with 3 or 4 seconds left. To be honest, I was shocked how low I won this one... maybe my 50+ bids scared everyone away thinking I was a shill bidder??
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2019, 12:30:53 pm »
Santa certainly treated you very nicely, handing over such a rarity !


Congrats and Merry Christmas Nick  :)
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2019, 05:23:05 am »
I also followed it on eBay, but didn’t bid. I was busy buying all of Bruce’s offerings!
& I certainly thank you for that Charlie...lol
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2019, 08:42:38 am »
Nice one Nick, persistence pays off. 👍👍👍
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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2019, 11:09:28 pm »
Nick I need to have a chat with your wife.

You have 12 Christmas's a year mate  :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


 ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2019, 12:27:44 pm »
Nice score!

I'm suppose to be selling so I haven't been watching ebay and you're lucky I wasn't.   

Buckman (Union) and Frisbe are the two exceptions but happy that you got (if it wasn't going to be me) ;D

Rare, of the only two that I've ever seen they were different size and had different accessories mounted and a collector in Ohio told me his had different tools then the one sold on Liveauctioneers 10 yrs ago.  This one larger with more stuff on it.

Congratulations,

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Re: My Christmas Present...
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2019, 01:16:25 pm »
Thank you Al, I have grown very fond of the Buckman/Union engines and have added quite a few recently  ;)  need to get a new "family picture" taken...  ;D

I am very lucky that nobody else bid as my final second, real bid was much, much higher than my winning bid...
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