The recent Lincoln Collective Sale once again showed the importance of an accredited firm in creating interest and big money ticket prices for rare items in perhaps not the best order condition wise.
A Wurlitzer MB20/16 juke box made up lot 17. This is a modern piece giving the look of an original music playing cabinet from the heyday of this great company.
Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer began importing instruments as a German immigrant in America in 1853. Obviously, the jukebox became known in the 1940s from what became a world class company using the best advertising. The company grew and sustained interest for over 100 years, with the early 1940s probably being its most prolific and well-known period. Prohibition in America was over, the future was optimistic, music was changing and these machines became synonymous with the times in the first section of the 1940s.
Although things went downhill in the 1960s, this 1940s heyday produced some remarkable examples of the jukebox and the term Wurlitzer became a generic term for these musical cabinets, similarly to a vacuum cleaner being known as a Hoover.
The firm were stylish and forward thinking and these pieces are great rarities now, as people still want to furnish their front rooms with this look.
The lot in the July sale became an able alternative to an original piece: it looked the part, but was a much more modern copy from the 1980s and is a direct copy and throwback to the 1940s Bubbler design made by this great company.
This example had condition issues. It wasn’t working, it was not guaranteed to work and was a gamble, as such a high stakes gamble as it took £3200 at the sale.
This again highlights the global interest Golding Young generates.
Our brand is worldwide; there was interest in this piece across the planet, and it is extremely good practise to use an accredited company to guarantee global interest and first class results.
