Unless I am missing something the person who bought this call got a ROYAL hosing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEIL-GOBBLER-COST-BOAT-PADDLE-TURKEY-BOX-CALL-/201362257134?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=qNiOTdYgMVnzTAmiis%252BBBXG6mcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
Sounds like a Kirby made call that neil signed.
Quote from: 29810434 on June 15, 2015, 08:09:36 PM
Sounds like a Kirby made call that neil signed.
BINGO !!!
Came from an NWTF banquet. Have one just like it. In the heyday of buy up everything Neil madness, this call was worth a grans, tops. $400-$450 today.
Seems like quite a mis-representation on the seller's part to me..................
Didn't know an autograph could fetch that much. Wow !
Sent by this stupid phone
Autographed copies of Neil's books will go a couple hundred or more.
Even an original UNSIGNED copy of his call making VHS tape are an easy $50
Hey who knows. Maybe the guy who won it is worth millions. Maybe 1900 bucks is chum change and the call is something he really wanted. I know I have over paid for a few things in my life because I had to have it.
You could very well be right. But I wish I knew he was willing to dump that kinda scratch on a $400 call. I'd have sold him mine for $1800. ;D
Seriously though.....................for what he paid he was close..........REALLY clos to being able to get into an honest to goodness Cost paddle call.
The seller represented it as made by, and signed by Neil Cost.
The description said Dick Kirby got a license to make a similar call but his were a bit different.
I won't be paying that kind of money for any call, just wondering how you know it's fake?
If it is fake, the seller completely misrepresented it.
Like I said in my original post............ "Unless I am missing something"................ which I don't think I am..............
I have the EXACT same call. Same screenprinted description, same gobbler stamp, same Neil Cost penciled numbering and signature. Just, obviously, a different number out of 850. So unless Neil decided that he was going to make call #722 in this series by himself, yet have it look the same as the other 849................ I'm just sayin...............
I talked to Neil back in 1979 and had him make me a call. I really had to think about it at the time because it was $29. I retired it from hunting several years ago because I didn't want to either break or lose it...I had left it lying beside a tree several times over the years and had to go back and find it. It doesn't matter what it's worth, it will be my grandson's in a few years.
Which makes it PRICELESS !!! :icon_thumright:
I'm just curious, I suspect you are right. I don't think Neil Cost made a series of calls in that large a number either.
Hope the buyer finds out and the seller makes it right. That's a lot of money to invest unless you are certain of the authenticity.
Buyer beware!!!! I see things on there all the time listed as "rare" "vintage" and they are things that are everyday items.
For instance,one of the most common is the "vintage" Lynch Call with Liberty Ms, and Georgia stamps. Some of those are some of the best production calls of the day but because it shows World Champion 1958 does not indicate the date of manufacture but rather the year that the call won the championship.
I have old Ben Lee, Eddie Salter and Lynch and am about to think that I may be "vintage". ;)
Quote from: Yoder409 on June 15, 2015, 07:51:45 PM
Unless I am missing something the person who bought this call got a ROYAL hosing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEIL-GOBBLER-COST-BOAT-PADDLE-TURKEY-BOX-CALL-/201362257134?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=qNiOTdYgMVnzTAmiis%252BBBXG6mcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
I'm pretty sure that call was listed on here a couple months ago. That guy actually called me and told me the story abiut that call.
Quote from: RAJ on June 16, 2015, 09:45:13 PM
For instance,one of the most common is the "vintage" Lynch Call with Liberty Ms, and Georgia stamps. Some of those are some of the best production calls of the day but because it shows World Champion 1958 does not indicate the date of manufacture but rather the year that the call won the championship.
I have old Ben Lee, Eddie Salter and Lynch and am about to think that I may be "vintage". ;)
Ya whats up with every Lynch 1958 call being worth well over $100? I think some of those people are just throwing stuff up aginst a wall just to see what sticks.
Quote from: SinGin on June 16, 2015, 10:22:40 PM
Quote from: RAJ on June 16, 2015, 09:45:13 PM
For instance,one of the most common is the "vintage" Lynch Call with Liberty Ms, and Georgia stamps. Some of those are some of the best production calls of the day but because it shows World Champion 1958 does not indicate the date of manufacture but rather the year that the call won the championship.
I have old Ben Lee, Eddie Salter and Lynch and am about to think that I may be "vintage". ;)
Ya whats up with every Lynch 1958 call being worth well over $100? I think some of those people are just throwing stuff up aginst a wall just to see what sticks.
Yeah really.......I never thought much of the regular ones, but I did like the deluxe grades.
Quote from: Tail Feathers on June 15, 2015, 11:23:40 PM
The seller represented it as made by, and signed by Neil Cost.
The description said Dick Kirby got a license to make a similar call but his were a bit different.
I won't be paying that kind of money for any call, just wondering how you know it's fake?
If it is fake, the seller completely misrepresented it.
Yes but he also stated that dick got the right after Neil died and the op stated that he has a call made by dick but signed by Neil so I am inclined to say that the seller misrepresented the call and did so on purpose
IIRC, there were actually two runs of paddle calls made by Dick Kirby then signed & numbered by Neil. The series of 850 that this call is from (and it SHOULD have a leather/fleece holster to go with it) then a smaller series............can't recall the number.
But if you read the screenprinted inscription on the call it says "....sounds so good that I can hardly tell it from one of my originals....." That is to say, this call is good.........but NOT one of Neil's originals.
I thought he obtained those rights before Neil died???
Quote from: snapper1982 on June 17, 2015, 12:55:20 PM
Quote from: Tail Feathers on June 15, 2015, 11:23:40 PM
The seller represented it as made by, and signed by Neil Cost.
The description said Dick Kirby got a license to make a similar call but his were a bit different.
I won't be paying that kind of money for any call, just wondering how you know it's fake?
If it is fake, the seller completely misrepresented it.
With the amount of knowledge on this board, I have no doubt they have it figured out. And the post about Neil hardly being able to tell the call from one of his originals, that pretty much seals it in my mind.
Yes but he also stated that dick got the right after Neil died and the op stated that he has a call made by dick but signed by Neil so I am inclined to say that the seller misrepresented the call and did so on purpose
Be wary of one of the oldest tricks in the books , shill bidding .....where folks(that know each other and the owner ) jack up the price of a item to lend a air of authenticity and demand -
I've heard by rumor of a few troublemakers that strongly engaged in this practice, NOT Neil Cost , , they would do so for monitory gain AND to blow up their reputation for being collectable , people would just go with it and talk it up etc...
Think of the childhood story of the emperors new wardrobe , where people just went with the flow etc..
I've met Mr Cost a few times , nice guy if there ever was , too bad people didn't pay him what they are paying for his calls today