It’s upto $2550 with 6 hours remaining. My guess is there’ll be a last minute barage of bids and it’ll sell for in or around $5,000.
City directories for most major American cities were available in the 1860s, and gave the name, occupation, and address of the occupants of most homes and businesses. These were often updated annually, and are nowadays available in the special collections section or local history section of major municipal libraries.
The pre-telephone era city directory for Philadelphia is available on the Internet. Don’t know about Roxbury/Boston. Sorry, it is Saturday morning, too lazy to google it myself.
Indeed it is: Roxbury Directory for 1852. Includes Edward White, Musical Instrument Maker, Dallas place.
Looked for Touhey in Boston in the 1890s, closet I found was “Toohey Dennis, musician, h. 116 West Ninth”. Few Touheys (with the correct spelling).
Also tried Brooklyn, looking for Mike Carney, and found about 6 of them in an 1897 directory. Also “CAVANAGH Miles J. musician h 93 India,” he was a piper. These directories just list “Musician,” nothing specific it seems.
Same page had a whole nest of Clooses, who made heaps of wooden flutes back in them days. This is from LAIN’S 1897-98 BROOKLYN DIRECTORY.
Search for your town and City Directory and you’ll find some pages.
Thanks for the tip!
Now everyone stop bidding on these pipes I want 'em! Me me me!
Yes, those directories to east coast U.S. cities from the late 19th century are fascinating. A chap who used to contribute to this forum (Chas R, I believe) had looked for the Taylor Brothers in the 1890s Philadelphia Directory, but couldn’t find them there. Is that right Chas, if you are still around. I found some of my mother’s people in the Philadelphia directory. Alas, they were oyster merchants, pharmacists and physicians, not pipers or pipemakers, but fascinating nonetheless.
Yes, those directories to east coast U.S. cities from the late 19th century are fascinating. A chap who used to contribute to this forum (Chas R, I believe) had looked for the Taylor Brothers in the 1890s Philadelphia Directory, but couldn’t find them there. Is that right Chas, if you are still around. I found some of my mother’s people in the Philadelphia directory. Alas, they were oyster merchants, pharmacists and physicians, not pipers or pipemakers, but fascinating nonetheless.
$7200 bloody hell!!!
And it doubled in the last minute…was in the $3k range until then. Now if the set of highland pipe bits I have on eBay at present does the same thing I’ll be a very happy man! (http://cgi.ebay.com/Grainger-Campbell-ABW-Bagpipes-sticks-only_W0QQitemZ170163958542QQihZ007QQcategoryZ16226QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem if anyones interested…)
Ian
It’ll be worth twice that once it’s restored… assuming the buyer has a good pipemaker standing by. Like Pat said, I think it was “the real deal”. It’s in bits, but all the bits are there.
It’ll be worth twice that once it’s restored…
My first reaction to the comment by billh is to ask who would pay $14.400 for such a set. On reflection, accepting the assumption that they would be fully restored and in fine playing condition, I suppose that would still price it less than a new Froment full set, and the provenance and history of it adds further interest. Certainly a restored 1932 Cadillac sells for more than a new one… so sure, why not?
I had set up a snipe bid for $5380, but by the time it hit the last few seconds of the auction, the top bid was already beyond that, so the bid wasn’t even entered. Good thing…I’ve got better things I should be spending that kind of coin on.
If the person who bought this set is a member of the forum, would they post something about this set when they receive it? I’m curious to know the origin of the chanter and the auction had very little information.
If the buyer is on this forum but doesn’t want it generally known that he/she has the pipes, they could send me a PM.