Silent bid victory

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ChaseClayton

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There is this little auction house that has a thrift store inside of it I go to. They have auctions Monday nights and I go Monday Day to the thrift side. Well I usually poke around and put in a silent bid on cast iron when I'm there. And to my surprise they had #14 martin. You could barely make out 4 of 14. THey had it marked 14 inch martin. It's a hair under 15 inches. I put in the silent bid at $60 because I had just sold some CI for $75 and figured what the heck. So a week goes by and no call I assume I didn't get it. I go into the place today a full 3 weeks past the auction and I won!!! All in all I paid right under $65. That is the most expensive piece I've bought up to now. But boy is it a whopper. One recently sold on eBay for $230+shipping.
 
Super nice! That is a beauty. I just never have that kind of luck, not so far anyway. This inspires me. Congrats on a heck of deal.
 
ChaseClayton said:
There is this little auction house that has a thrift store inside of it I go to.
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We have just the opposite here. Thrift store that does a twice a week silent auction. You can bid anytime, bids start at $5. Then 15 mins. before the end, the highest bids for each item is shown on the screen, and people have a chance to bid higher. Kind of a weird system.

That Martin was a GREAT find. I picked up one of the old No. 14 unmarked Lodge skillets marked (U.S.) for $29 and was ecstatic. Thing is HUGE, and smooth like glass. I've never seen a Martin that large.
 
Jmoss my postal scale only goes upto 10lbs and my wife hid the step on scale. Lol. I'll ask her when she gets home.

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Rick if I'm not mistaken the #14 was the largest martin made.
 
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