When I’m bad, I’m better.” This Wurlitzer “Mae West” jukebox was in “hard to find” unrestored condition, played two sizes of records and had an extra mechanism. Mae West said “When I’m good, I’m very good. With so much online bidding, we are seeing more shipping than before.”Ī few lots jumped out to Opfer as he discussed the sale with Antiques and The Arts Weekly.

The market for this stuff isn’t what it used to be – we’ve lost a lot of those collectors and don’t have as many new ones as we used to. It wasn’t crazy money but we got very good money for what we had and every category was strong. I think people are sitting at home, wanting to buy. In the end, we had plenty of participation. We had about 20 people come in to see things. My biggest concern – I postponed the sale twice – I wanted people to be able to preview what they wanted. Everyone is worried about the Covid situation and what have you. After the sale, Richard Opfer was upbeat. The auction house allowed previews by appointment and provided additional photographs and condition reports to potential buyers so people could bid with confidence. The sale had originally been scheduled for earlier in the spring but Opfer rescheduled it twice, waiting to see what would happen with changing COVID-19 restrictions. The sale was conducted on HiBid, OpferLive and LiveAuctioneers, with the most sales selling on LiveAuctioneers.

With no reserves, all of the lots in the sale sold for a total of nearly $130,000, with new bidders registered to buy online and sales going to International bidders in Canada and Australia. – On May 21, Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc., offered more than 400 lots, including scoops, dispensers, advertising, coin-ops and photographs from the Harold Screen estate’s soda fountain collection in addition to a collection of a local carousel dealer who was getting out of the business. It retained its original paint and finish with wear but what was a particularly nice feature, according to Opfer, was the dispenser on the front of it that he described as “mint.” ($1/2,000).

Rolling to the top of the sale was this Rol-A-Top 5-cent slot machine by Watling that a private collector bought for $5,750.

Liveauctioneers crazy shipping