over the radar – high profile whistles

When appropriate, it is fun to touch on low flying, under the radar whistles on eBay. Always fun to see one get through the mix. And rare ones at that.

However it also is interesting to watch a high profile whistle too. Why you ask ?? …. Good question 🙂
I dunno. Perhaps it is just to see how high a whistle will go. Or  it could be to watch all the 'cross' collectors come out of the woodwork and without any common sense ' throw their hat into the ring' and thereby drive the whistle into obscurity !!!! Yup, in effect push up the price. In most cases it would be an arms collector. But this one went to an eclectic whistle collector with a 'private' rating. He has had it for years now.—sorry gun guys !!! One for the whistle geeks 🙂

Take this one for example >>>>>> 331303886160 a really  great extractor whistyle – almost famous because of its bird killer blade ( must be a hummingbord, its such a small blade !! )

Gilchrist identifies it as Moffats patent on page 70 of More Whistles ( do you have this book ?? – you should ) and so it goes that it is quite rare – probably one of the best of the extractor designs I must say.
And watching it soar it probably could kill a bird on the fly — over 400UK pounds or close to 700 dollars US dollars. — OUCH !!! That leaves most of us out of the running. Do birds even fly that high ?? That's stratospheric !!!

Watching the bids though. Most bidders just took a stab at it. One did peck away at it driving it up several times fruitlessly I might add…. However the whistle was sold the whole time to one bidder who just waited till the end and then took it. No one really was in the running the whole time !!!! Yup, that's how it usually is with a very rare one.

So what do we learn other than torturing ourselves ?? If you are really interested in a rare one like this, then prepare to pay. No quibbling about it, no vascillating, just do it !!! Either that or put yourself out of your misery and erase it. OR track it for your records — you keep them right ??

Now let's try it and see how it works >>>> 291232918746

One wine guy keeps shoving the price up, bidding over and over — do you think he will win it ??

The price is 165gbp. Do you think that will be close ??

Ha !! and Ha !! again … ( twice )