World's most expensive model

[Simpo Two]

A snip at £275,000: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144282252214

'Minerva, in triple, the goddess of great fortune, the clock-maker who made the boat/motor & of steam'

I'd suggest the seller is on drugs; what do we think it's actually worth?

[dr_gn]

It’s the £19.95 postage that kills it for me.

[shedweller]

If my euromillions comes up I will negotiate the postage down a bit and covert it to a 12s brushless setup and send it!....... Crazy rooster tails

[generationx]

Christ, that advert is hard work - separating the model description from the ramblings of a mildly over-enthusiastic seller.

[Simpo Two]

It's your lucky day chaps - it's now reduced to only £269,000! (and offers).

Who's going to offer £1...?

[2ono]

I've just offered him/her £15.67.....

[Trevatanus]

At least it's in full working order..... oh wait.....

[Simpo Two]

2ono said:

I've just offered him/her £15.67.....

Did you get a rude reply? When I asked them if they'd make a mistake with the price the reply that came straight back was 'If you can't afford it don't buy it'. Charming.

[Red9zero]

To be fair it's probably what you'd pay if it was in one of those model kits, where you get a magazine with a part each month. £1.99 the first couple of months, then £19.99 until you lose interest and put it on ebay.

[Squirrelofwoe]

I'm not sure I've ever seen so much conjecture and speculation passed off as cast-iron provenance before!

I tried working through the full description (if only to count the number of "maybe"s & "probably"s) but 'hard work' doesn't even come close.

Surely something like this would have a makers mark of some sort, which might make it possible to accurately date the model and perhaps find out more about its history? Without that, the only 'evidence' the seller is presenting to support the claims regarding its age is the style of the boat itself- suggesting a belief that models are always contemporaneous to the boats they represent?!

Without any historical provenance, surely its just an old (broken) clockwork model that's probably worth a couple of hundred pounds to the right dedicated clockwork-model collector?

Oh and what is with all the reference to, and speculation about, a Roman statue in Bath?!

[hot metal]

Always plenty of chancers on eBay, this is pushing it a bit though