ebay Item number: 3715546170
don’t you guys touch it! this one is mine! 
Good grief, a starting bid of $20,000 for a crystal flute?! One klutzy move and the flute’s gone forever.
mmmm. nice flute but Id be a little worried about the
“flute sold as is”
remark if I were about to shell out that kind of money! (which I am not 
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I saw one sold the week before last for £ 3400 plus premium .Just within estimate .That looked a bit cheap .When the (admittedly American ) vendor says well healed does he think he is using a medical term ?
I say “go for it, Eilam”. 
Just remember to name me in your will as the beneficiary to all your flutes …because when your wife finds out… 
Paul
Yeah. Go for it. I know I wouldn’t buy it for a tenth of that price, but hell, you are not me. 
This looks like it’s the real thing. If it is, it’s worth the price. But it’s a collector’s piece, not a session flute, of course. I read somewhere that the main reason these didn’t catch was the weight. If i remember right, the keys are post-mounted, and the posts are screwed through the glass.
Well - I’ll share a secrete with you - the only reason you don’t see me bid, is that I want to do the swift stealthy thing and come right at the last moment.
I know Dana is going to try to get it, because of the allergy thing, so I need to make my moves very calculated! don’t tell! 
I do think it’s beautiful though, I think it was made by the same maker that made the glass shoe for Cinderella?
The vendor refers to three Laurent Glass flutes to be seen in the Dayton Miller collection .There are 16 illustrated .I know of three people here with half a dozen between them .I wonder if they are quite so rare as the vendor suggests .I see that someone has ventured an opening bid .Rash ?
I suppose if you really want one … I didn’t at a third of the current price .
Eilam, I am channeling your wife, and I believe she’s saying if you do it you owe her a custom Fylde bazouki with all the options including a mink shoulder strap.
(That’s how we Caps operate – we don’t get mad, we just get expensive instruments of our own!)
Cat, I know. Carla’s acceptance and patience, is the hardest thing for me.
It would make things so much easier if she was untrusting and rude - but NO, she has to be nice and happy for me!
Of course she expect the same from me - which is a total set-up (as far as I’m concerned).
Hey, I want to stay married, too!
Dana
<Hey, I want to stay married, too!
I know Dana! and that’s why I think you should go for it. What a faster way to know and test true love? You see, when I got into all this, I did not have the opportunity of a $20K flute, so I HAD to buy twenty $1000 flutes - but you - you’re lucky, you can know in a matter of a few days if your honey is the real one. Me - I’ll have to continue buying those cheaper ones, til I know I can truly trust Carla.
besides - the crystal flute is more of a chick thing
This chick thinks it would make a nice … lamp? You know, one of those illuminated candlestick things with a shade on top?
I know, HERESY!!!
C’mon, e, you’re a furniture guy! You can write it off!
Oh, and I mean one of those fringe-y shades, of course.
P.S. I guess that flute wouldn’t do too well in a session, huh.
cat - I think it’s more of a relationship tester, then you can turn it around and not have the big hole in the pocket had you gone to counseling.
The only thing I could write off would be the next day, Carla is a TaeKwonChick 
that’s way worst then the soccer mom’s,
and besides, she’s not THAT nice
Dang, I was really angling for that thing as a lamp. Oh well, you don’t need a crystal flute in a TaeKwonDo household anyway …
Reminds me of an ivory flute, great to collect, costs a fortune.
But personally I don’t pay 20k for something that is meant to be used that I never would.
Oh well, good for you for having the cash to blow on a collectible!
I hope your “honey” understands and supports you, cause that kicks butt.
Don’t worry I won’t bid.
Mark
Mark, I was just joking around, I could not afford it for a tenth of the price.
I’ve seen a few of these flutes in pictures, one was by Laurent made in 1813, and the other was Green, and made by Breton at around the 1860’s. Both beautiful, but I really think that for conical bore instruments there are materials that are more natural for the process of making, considering that so much of it is fine tuning, and the bore not being a consistant taper, glass, just seems like making a hard task, ten times harder!
and also the fact that it is brittle!
Good thing the maker was not into designing clothes!
Uhm, excuse me…I do Tae Kwon Do, and used to coach soccer, and soccer moms are WAY worse that TKChicks.
The ones that take the absolute cake are feis moms. :shudder: 
Aodhan