Copeland low D, sterling silver, list price $775; will sell for $675.
Copeland D, sterling silver, list price $435; will sell for $ 350.
U pay estimated s/h/insurance.
This was cross-posted on the Whistle forum.
Contact me at glands @comcast.net, via PM, or by reply here if interested. In the event that several parties are interested I’ll use GMT of your reply to determine who earns first right of refusal. Lewis
Copeland whistles look and sound good but I’ll stick with my chieftain. It cost only 60 punts in 1997 and I’m perfectly happy with the sound.
Is it my imagination or are there lots of these high-end instruments going cheap at present. See David Boisvert’s post. Also, lots of pipes being offered on Ebay are not making their reserves. Is this a sign that the market is saturated or that the economy is turning?
I don’t think that you can compare “high priced” whistle resales to UPs resales nor should the lower quality sets both making their reserves on ebay. If you take a comparably made high quality name UP set and compare it to a equally high end (not equal in price of course) whistle, you will likely see quite a difference. The high quality whistle makers have relatively short wait lists as compared to the UPS. Not to many of those UP sets are moved on ebay and not the same can be said for whistles. The last Froment set sold for nearly $15K US (equivilent), and it was a 15 year old set, and that is clearly not discounted to present retail price from the maker.