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Check this sign out already at $2000
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Sign belongs to an oldgasser . Super nice sign.

Wow! I'm rather surprised that he's selling it. He did say it was the best sign he's ever owned. I wonder what happened?

he must of got something better..

Looks like he's building a house. Should be good for a couple upgrades.

I do love the sign but i found a sign collection i am going to be purchasing.

Best of luck with the auction. Please post pics of the sign collection once you get it.

Thanks Ron. I will, its not a ton of signs but there are some pretty good ones. Its a pan-am collection with a couple other oddball signs.

Robert.. I see your picture taking is better now !! Good luck !

$5,301.00! 5 days to go! Whoa!

Thanks Bill, I took the tips you gave me a while back and also bought a better camera(after i dropped mine)

pics are everything !! Good luck

$6000+

Kind of fun to follow!

$7400 with 11 bidders and 49 total bids!

I'm just wondering what oldgas.com is going to be 10 yrs. from now? ;;;;;;;;;;Ron

The high bidder with 155 feedbacks is an Oldgas member.

We now have 12 bidders with 59 bids and the high bid is $9598

Personally, I would never have guessed it, even though I love the sign!

Anyone notice there is another one on now? 230752095871

YES WITH A HIGH STARTING BID AND CERTAINLY NOT AS NICE A COND.

The other sign's seller is a 0% feedback with 34 sales. I would not go anywhere near that auction with a 10' long stick

Edit: maybe my eBay app is messing up on my phone because it does show he has positive feedback but his % is still 0.

Heres the link to the other sign.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/3677-long-island-antique-duck-sign

This is one of the ones i state in my listing that i knew of. Was posted on collectors weekly a while ago (this is the other one on eBay)

Ive seen that duck sign on oldgas before. Maybe 2 years ago. Doc, i believe you were talki g about it on craigslist up near you.

Whoever the seller is on here needs to realize that money is better than nothing for that sign. You can end the auction early with a very good feedback bidder as the winner. You don't want to end up with a non-payer and be out the time you put into it. Take the money and run on the next good feedback(with alot of feedback) bidder!

...oh, let the damn auction run...the runner up will take the sign even if the high bidder backs out...

Robert... are you ending the auction early?

I would let it run for a sign of this caliber. Good luck with your sale.

I have absolutely no intentions of ending the auction early.

Good, I just wondered !

I believe this was the L.I. Duckling sign that was offered on Craigslist. The sellers name was Jim.

$13,100 with 65 bids from 12 bidders!

i remember that & didn't he value at, or was asking around $600 or less ? can't remeber that far back.. wow. LOL

I bet Docs putting all his "eggs in one basket" and going for this one LOL...

.Doc, were these signs at the big duck out east? Or were they all over LI back in the day?

Back in the day, here on the eastern part of Long Island, there were many several duck farms in the 1920's-1960's. Many of them closed due to the waste situation which was getting out of hand and polluting the bays and connecting waters.

Here is the link where he got the sign which has my posting of the L.I. Duckling sign that currently resides inside the big duck in Flanders....

http://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=303967#Post303967

I know of 6 originals...2 on ebay and 4 local to me....The Big Duck one, and at least 3 in private collections which includes the one I threw an offer at last year of $600. I was testing the waters on that. They wanted more than double I believe and just didn't know what they were worth to be honest. Now I wish I had made the investment....Oh, well. LOL!

The bid is still the same, but the bid count has gone up one! Means the high bidder has raised his own bid and now has an absentee bid in place!!!
Wonder how high he went? Guess we'll find out if someone else bids!!!

$16779.00 One of the other bidders isn't about to be scared away!

I would have to guess that this duck sign was a very good "quick flip" investment!

I bet Robert is by his computer !!

CRAZY..

HAMMER DOWN! $16,779.99

GOOD LUCK ROBERT WITH THE TRANSACTION! GREAT DAY FOR YOU!

here is a cheaper model, not as nice..
ebay # 230754432171

Yeah, that was already noted on page too. Somebody is dreaming IMO!

Wow! This didn't take long!!

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I almost fell out of my chair I laughed so hard. I don't see the point in making t shirts of something 99.99% of people in the world haven't heard of. I mean there can't be too many people who would buy one.

Doc????? Maybe he order a couple dozen! LOL

LOL i noticed the poster on there last night. I couldn't stop laughing when i noticed the t-shirt.

I'm from long island and would not wear that shirt LOL

Found I had one item in my collection related to Long Island Ducks. Just a post card size card. Picked some up at a local flea market from a guy that was from Long Island.
If any one wants one I think I have four more. $5.50 and I'll stick one in an envelope and mail ya one.

...can you bring one to Dixie Gas for me?

Sure Gulfiend. I thought about them because I had them with me at Mason Dixon and was watching the signs on e-bay.

Hollis Warner's son lives in the next town over from me. However, he's in the monument business. I was physically in one of the Warner's Duck Farms barns a week and a half ago....they closed in the 70's.

Cool

Just noticed this today lol.

item number: 280857160399

Opening is $6,000, BIN $9,000.
Hand made wood plaster, epoxy resin & says it took over a month to make! Must have been watching the paint DRY!

Its funny how drastically opinions vary. I would put a realistic value of $75-125 on his sign......now thats a waste of a whole months time?? Im sure it will be on ebay for a decade before a movie set needs it.

Nice looking sign. If you paid a sign man to produce something like that, it probably would cost $800-1200 minimum.

Id rather bid on this one for 2k than own 25 of the homemade jobbies. I doubt this auction will run its course??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-RARE-Vintag...=item2a1bf98075

He's a New Yorker LOL will take the money and run says he will end it if sells locally. Not nearly as nice as the one Robert had.