In .com "Bret Ludwig" writes:

On Mar 18, 5:45 pm, wrote:
In rec.antiques.radio+phono Bret Ludwig wrote:

The answer to your question is obvious to most, but since you asked,
it's that we have a eBay vendor who is trying to sell something for an
inasne amount of money and we are entitled to a little sport with him.
Also this is not a common piece at all-it has to be late 1920s
construction. The later poster is confusing this with the AC powered
metal case 19C, I think, which was thick on the land until orientals
started buying them for their not very good transformers.

Anyway, you stated earlier you have conserved 2 of those, and no doubt
others have them in their collections as well. I still fail to see what is
the big problem to selling the remaining units to be used for parts, even
if the takers are 'fools'... You can't hoard and keep all nice stuff for
yourself, it would be impractical to never recycle stuff. As long as some
examples are being preserved by caring individuals all seems well to me.

They should make new ones instead of buying up all our stuff. We
should make it tough for them to buy it all up. The 19C is not a huge
loss to society but they are driving prices on everything now, except
Dynajunk. We need to think nationalistically to some extent.

Someone is paying lots of money for an obsolete piece of equipment
no one else wants. Why is this bad for the United States? If denizens
of another country started forking over cold, hard cash for old truck
tires, would this also be bad?

If I lived in Hoilland I would support the Dutch version of the BNP
or "Die Partei" (NPD).

If you lived in Holland you'd freak out. The Dutch are quite happy
to do business regardless of where you live, what color you are, or how
many arms and legs you happen to have. New York City was born as an
economic engine precisely because they didn't think someone was unworthy
of buying or selling because they happend to worship a different diety,
or any other non-business bias.

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Tim Mullen
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