Welcome back!
Hope you had a great Independence Day!
We’re so glad to be back
with fresh information to share with you about recent sales of Duff Tweed
carvings. There has not been a great
deal of activity recently with Duff’s work online. There is a set of three
golfers on one frame up for sale for $250.
That piece has been on Ebay for months! We have picked up a few pieces locally and
still seem to be the highest paying collectors for Duff’s work. With that
thought in mind, we’re sharing the latest sale on Ebay which occurred on June
13, 2013.
The piece up for auction was
this smiling fellow pictured at the bottom of this entry; The Happy Golfer. In the past, we have shared pictures and stories of
previous Happy Golfer carvings, but this one is being discussed for a different
reason.
There were four separate bidders
for this carving. For the past 5 years, I and a
friend have done most/all the bidding with the occasional third bidder offering
next to nothing in value. However, this
single carving sold for $54 plus $15 shipping and handling. The piece has scrapes in the mid section as
well as scrapes to the frame, but is in overall very good condition.
The table below shows how
the Ebay bids grew:
|
Bidder
  |
 Bid Amount |
Bid Time
|
|
l***g
( 567 ) |
US
$54.00
|
Jun-13-13 21:11:16
PDT
|
|
k***1
( 1295 ) |
US
$53.00
|
Jun-12-13 08:30:29
PDT
|
|
US
$40.00
|
Jun-11-13 16:02:47
PDT
|
|
|
k***1
 (1295) |
US
$36.00
|
Jun-12-13 08:07:21
PDT
|
|
g***s
( 605) |
US
$23.99
|
Jun-10-13 11:01:10
PDT
|
|
Starting Price
|
US $19.99
|
Jun-03-13 21:11:22
PDT
|
|
DUFF
|
||
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Now, $54 may not seem like a
lot for the carving and in our estimate it is not. However, we have been seeing maximum offers
of $43 to $47 for a set of three golfer carvings, so the $54 sale price for a
single golfer carving is significant in that it displays a large percentage
growth in the sale price of recent Duff Tweed carvings. Another contributing factor to the higher
sale price is the increased interest from existing and new Duff Tweed Carving
collectors. Just before uploading this
blog entry we took a look at the blog statistics and see it now has around 9,500 page views primarily in North America . Not bad for a rather obscure collection of
work. Duff's carvings speak for themselves.
OK, here’s what you really
wanted to see . . . DUFF TWEED’S The Happy Golfer!
Nice to see an individual
carving with small damage to the carving and frame sell for $50+. Let’s hope this is a sign for rising demand
for Duff Tweed carvings.
Keep those Duffy tales
coming our way and we promise to share them with the world.
All the best!
Joe
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