Lady Luck Encountered

• #15 Reply
  Posted by txlabman on 15 Apr, 2019 08:31
• Thank you for sharing the story Jan.
  
  Looking forward to seeing it all cleaned up.
  
  Regards,
  Charlie
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• #16 Reply
  Posted by Hero on 15 Apr, 2019 12:02
• Want to double your money?
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• #17 Reply
  Posted by Steamandoil (Tim) on 15 Apr, 2019 12:15
• That’s great news and a good story too! It makes me feel good when someone saves an oldie from oblivion. Now it will live for another generation.
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• #18 Reply
  Posted by Stoker on 15 Apr, 2019 13:05
• Quote from: Steamandoil (Tim) on 15 Apr, 2019 12:15

  That’s great news and a good story too! It makes me feel good when someone saves an oldie from oblivion. Now it will live for another generation.
  

  
  Ditto that !!!
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• #19 Reply
  Posted by MrandMrsferrysteam on 16 Apr, 2019 04:35
• Well done Jan, you could look for years and not find one. It makes you wonder how many gems have been thrown away through ignorance of their collectable value....
                                                         Allan.
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• #20 Reply
  Posted by komet163b on 16 Apr, 2019 12:36
• Nice find for a perfect price.
  I don't know how long I could have kept a straight face.
  Aren't you glad you stopped by!  Now you have to go again.
  
  Unfortunately, in  Brooklyn there are no nice-n-easy
  low pressure sales meets - if it has any age or weight
  'it must be valuable' is the uninformed sellers mantra.
  The asking price would probably have been
  at least $200.
  
  By a lotto ticket ASAP,
  Wayne
     
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• #21 Reply
  Posted by Weedensteam on 16 Apr, 2019 19:22
• This looks similar:
  
  https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Antique-Circa-1900-J-F-Childs-Steam-Engine-Toy-Hit-Miss-Germany-Project/151689173301?hash=item2351611935:g:NtEAAOSwBahVXjZM
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• #22 Reply
  Posted by classixs on 17 Apr, 2019 03:52
• Thanks guys !
  
  Spot on Frank, definitely looks to be the same model that one.
  Someone should make him a 1½ buck offer, having a valid argument on what the current value is
  
  I have another unidentified similar looking Falk, but as i am not at home i can´t make a direct comparison.
  I assume that it is slightly larger, sitting there on another base, with a spark arrestor style chimney,
  and the boiler fixed at the sides of the firebox, not just soldered at the ends as the one in this thread.
  But who knows, might turn out to be the exact same size, and just different vintages...
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• #23 Reply
  Posted by SeeSteam on 17 Apr, 2019 06:28
• Good thing you saw it.
  Luckily here we have Good Will to donate to but I wonder what they do with items like that. It would have been a shame for it to be in the trash but I understand the previous
   owner's dilemma.
  
  Price is a bonus but for history's sake, good that you found it.
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• #24 Reply
  Posted by Nick on 17 Apr, 2019 09:47
• Quote from: CBWho on 17 Apr, 2019 06:28

  Good thing you saw it.
  Luckily here we have Good Will to donate to but I wonder what they do with items like that.
  

  Around here they have a "Showcase" for anything old or valuable. One local Goodwill has weekly or monthly auctions for these items.
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• #25 Reply
  Posted by Weedensteam on 17 Apr, 2019 12:33
• Quote from: Nick on 17 Apr, 2019 09:47

  Around here they have a "Showcase" for anything old or valuable. One local Goodwill has weekly or monthly auctions for these items.
  

  
  Same here, and the items do not go cheap, as it is a charity I will bid what I think is the going rate as I save on the shipping if I bought on Ebay, haven't won an auction yet. 
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