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201487805406, 201504977531, and 191789306257 all went to the same buyer, for a total of $18,500 plus shipping. Someone with deep pockets is collecting Cooke's!
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The cooke lenses all seem to be re-listed by the same seller. ???? sincerely still confused
Must be someone that thinks the sky's the limit, and they can buy high, and sell higher. That's a good way to be stuck with things you bought too high. We can watch and see, I see it in other antique hobbies I'm in. Or if you are saying the same seller is just relisting them after they "sold", then something else fishy is going on. Probably related to point #1.
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The Series IIA that sold has the turn for soft focus writing in french; so it must have been originally sold for the french market... While the current listing is a different lens with all the engravings in English. Likewise you can tell the 15" knucklers are different as one is a Series II while the current offering is a IIB.
The same buyer also purchased two other Cookes from the seller about a year earlier. I wont tell you his name, but all five Cookes went back to their original country of manufacture (where the fish come with a side of chips).
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The only explaination I can give is that it is the surviving Cooke organisation, getting hold of all the Soft Focus models. A resale after a period of time means they have had enough time to measure up radii, distances and refractive indexes etc. I doubt the original prescriptions still exist in their safe.
Or a would-be competitor?
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