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Late 19th Century Folk Art Bumbass instrument
Located in London, GB
Late 19th Century Folk Art Bumbass instrument A rare example of a late 19th Century folk art
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Early 1900s Unknown Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

1920s Ludwig & Ludwig Hand Painted Bass Drum / lamp, Folk Art
By Ludwig Drums
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful 1920s Ludwig & Ludwig Bass Drum / lamp, Folk Art,, Hand painted Art Deco woman figure
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1920s American Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Metal

Vintage Toca Hand Percussion Djembe Drum Painted Folk Art Gecko Lizard 12"
Located in Dayton, OH
with dot painted base showing an African folk art style gecko or sun lizard in red, black, and yellow
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Leather, Hardwood

19th Century Watercolour - Figures on a Beach
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate finely painted 19th Century watercolour, depicting a family group on a beach, with folk
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19th Century Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Watercolor

19th Century Hand-Painted Folk Art Spanish Tambourine with Artist's Signature
Located in Madrid, ES
A painted rustic city scene framed by a branch of exquisite pink flowers adorns this small Spanish tambourine. Skillfully painted with an illegible artist's signature at lower right,...
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19th Century Spanish Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Leather

Large Painted Folk Art Drum This Is a Very Bright and Colourful Piece
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Large Painted Folk Art Drum This is a very bright and colorful piece, the Drum is made in wood
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Early 20th Century Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Pine

Monumental Antique English Brass Telescope Tripod Maritime Instrument Nautical
Located in Dayton, OH
Rare and genuine 19th century English Victorian brass telescope on tripod stand. Features amazing optics and a large adjustable base with spike pointed feet.  
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19th Century Victorian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

English Gothic Style Ibach Upright Piano Carved Oak Traditional Folk Art Motifs
Located in Leeds, GB
candlesticks and handles. Cabinet features traditional folk art motifs and carvings. Pilasters carved with
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Early 19th Century German Gothic Revival Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Painting Rural Feast, oil, hardboard, Oto Dobovišek, Yugoslavia 1973
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
. This delightful piece of folk art depicts a scene of joyous village life, complete with traditional
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Mid-20th Century Italian Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Paint

18th Century Carpenters Hand Plane Tool, Signed and Dated 1791
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Rare Museum-level 18th Century carpenters tool, an antler hand plane, hand-carved to look like a lion. Signed with initials and dated 1791.
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Late 18th Century Scandinavian Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Metal

18th Century Carpenters Hand Plane Tool, Signed and Dated 1791
18th Century Carpenters Hand Plane Tool, Signed and Dated 1791
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H 4.45 in W 6.45 in D 1.25 in
Set of Two Mushrooms Scientific Models Europe , Germany 1960s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage set of two different types of mushrooms, show Models which are native to middle Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools. Colorful...
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1960s German Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Paper, Wood

Vintage French Hour Sand Glass in Pewter
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
French Pewter and Sand 15 Minutes Hour Glass
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1920s French Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Pewter

Vintage French Hour Sand Glass in Pewter
Vintage French Hour Sand Glass in Pewter
H 6.5 in W 2.75 in D 2.75 in
Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Stunning Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage stunning large model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German scho...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
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20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
Category

20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Mushroom Botanical Scientific Specimen Model Europe, 1950s or older
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare vintage model of a botanical scientific specimen depicts a mushroom native to Central Europe. This kind of items are used as teaching material in German schools or as showp...
Category

20th Century Czech Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

Antique Copper And Brass Coach or Post Horn. English, Late 19th Century
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great copper coach or post horn Brass reinforcing supports and mouthpiece Original patina Free UK shipping
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Late 19th Century English Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass, Copper

Danish 19th Century Brass Surveying or Level Tool on Tripod
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Surveyors tripod level tool from the late 19th century. The tripod is made of wood and the level is brass. The wood tripod is 39.75in high.
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Mid-19th Century Danish Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Moroccan Tribal Berber Wooden Sugar Hammer
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
wood with tribal design, this folk art instrument is a sugar hammer. Sugar in Morocco was sold in block
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Early 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Rare 19th Century Large Original Painted Lightning Rod on Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic folky oversized 19th century mustard over copper Lightning rod ball on a professional iron stand. The base is a plank of original work that the rod was placed in when made....
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19th Century American Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Copper

Emile Deyrolle 19th Century Plaster, Wire and Wood Didactic Germination Models
By Emile Deyrolle
Located in Buffalo, NY
Les Fils D'Emile Deyrolle, Paris. Extremely rare set of five 19th century French painted plaster, wire and wood Didactic models depicting progression, Anatomie Vegetalf, beautifully ...
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19th Century French Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wire

Modernist Wooden Cello Case
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Interesting modernist, cubist handmade wood cello case from the 1900-1920s. Great folk art object
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Early 20th Century German Modern Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Modernist Wooden Cello Case
Modernist Wooden Cello Case
H 1 in W 1 in D 1 in
Steinway Upright Piano Arts and Crafts Mahogany Sculptural Legs Cut-Out Hearts
Located in Leeds, GB
using simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It sought to
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Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Handcrafted Wooden Mortar and Pestle, Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
a bookcase and just gaze upon its beauty This is a great old piece of folk art to add to your
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Late 20th Century Italian Organic Modern Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Fruitwood

Vintage Wooden Mortar and Pestle, Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
your kitchen island or in a bookcase and just gaze upon its beauty This is a great old piece of folk
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Early 20th Century Italian Organic Modern Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood, Fruitwood

Endre László Szász for Hollohaza Porcelain Violin
By Endre Szasz
Located in Delft, NL
turned it into a real manufacturing facility but it still produced folk style decorated porcelain for
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20th Century Hungarian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Porcelain

Arts and Crafts Ibach Grand Piano Mahogany Designed by Dutch Architect Cuypers
Located in Leeds, GB
simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk motifs in decoration. It sought to reassert the
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Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Rare Alexander Girard Detrola Radio, circa 1946, Modernist
By Alexander Girard
Located in Buffalo, NY
color palette and folk influences with the sleek and functional work of Herman Miller and Charles and
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Arts and Crafts, Bechstein Upright Piano Rosewood Brass Hinges by Walter Cave
By Walter Cave
Located in Leeds, GB
medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It sought to reassert the importance of design and
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Late 19th Century German Arts and Crafts Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass

Arts and Crafts Style Lipp Grand Piano Inlaid Germanic Folklore Motifs
Located in Leeds, GB
applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and has
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Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Rare Estate Printers Proof Framed Hanna Barbera Flintstones Jetsons Orchestra
Located in New York, NY
Jetsons playing musical Instruments. A Rare Collectors Piece!! Framed in a Custom Black Frame. Gallery
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20th Century American Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Paper

Antique Boule Set, Boule Balls, Pétanque, 1880s, France, Craftsmanship
Located in Greven, DE
only instruments of the game, but also symbols of elegance and sophistication in leisure activities
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Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Metal

Antique Boule Set, Boule Balls, Pétanque, 1880s, France, Craftsmanship
Located in Greven, DE
ornately crafted balls were not only instruments of the game, but also symbols of elegance and
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Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Metal

An Exceptional New Zealand Māori Bugle-Flute ‘Pu Turino’
Located in London, GB
(18823656) The bugle-flute is an instrument unique to the Māori which plays two notes, one for the male
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18th Century New Zealand Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Antique Boule Set, Boule Balls, Pétanque, 1880s, France, Craftsmanship
Located in Greven, DE
took the game of boules to a new level. These ornately crafted balls were not only instruments of the
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Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Metal

Moroccan Berber Wooden Sugar Hammer Marteau a Sucre Deggaga
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Morocco, hand-carved and hand painted wood with tribal design. This ethnic Berber instrument is a sugar
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Early 19th Century Moroccan Islamic Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Mendi Ceremonial Headdress, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Located in Leuven , BE
, and playing traditional musical instruments. A wide range of Highlands peoples and their costumes and
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20th Century Papua New Guinean Used Folk Instruments

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Textile, Organic Material

17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Mythological Antique Painting, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
where the characters dance and are portrayed with the intent of playing musical instruments, drinking
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1670s Italian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Canvas

Dogon Tribe Hardwood Carved Rhythm Pounder from Mali, Africa
Located in Bridgeport, CT
neighboring tribes during rituals and dancing being a primary percussive instrument. Traditional carving with
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Mid-20th Century Malian Tribal Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Hardwood

Rare Silver Balangandãs - 20th Century Brazilian Native Hanging Amulet
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
types of objects. In the one we present, we can see delicately fruits and musical instruments. ***Note
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Other Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Sterling Silver

Fine Early Twentieth-Century Figurative Flutes
Located in London, GB
feature on the 'neck' of the 'female' flute. The surface of both instruments exhibits a deep, worn shiny
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Early 20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Bamileke Iron Double Gong, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
purposes within the Bamileke communities of Cameroon. They were status symbols, ceremonial instruments, and
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Early 20th Century Cameroonian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Iron

Bamileke Iron Double Gong, c. 1900
Bamileke Iron Double Gong, c. 1900
H 34 in W 27 in D 5.5 in
20th Century Handcarved Traditional Indonesian Wood Mask Couple
Located in LEGNY, FR
gamelan or others. traditional musical instruments. These masks. Very good condition.
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1980s Indonesian Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wood

Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
derived from classical antiquity, some playing musical instruments, with numerous animals. This has led
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15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Classical Roman Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Wool, Linen

Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
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H 26 in W 20.5 in D 1 in
Accordian Player: Dutch store signage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rescued from a musical instruments store in the Netherlands, this sophisticated yet whimsical
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1940s Dutch Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Brass, Aluminum

Complete Set of Fifteen Japanese Hinaningyo Dolls
Located in Prahran, Victoria
five musicians, each with an instrument except the singer who carries a fan. On the fourth tier, are
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20th Century Japanese Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Feathers, Textile, Wood

African Tribal Art Igbo or Igala Cast Bronze Bell, West Africa, Nigeria
Located in Miami, FL
communication, as portable instruments for conveying important messages, and as a form or currency. Bronze
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19th Century Nigerian Primitive Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Antique Folk Art Watercolor Painting Children with Cat Instruments Framed
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique folk art style watercolor painting of a pair of children with instruments and a cat walking
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Early 20th Century Folk Art Used Folk Instruments

Materials

Paint

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Used Folk Instruments For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of used folk instruments available for sale. Each of these unique used folk instruments was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and brass. Used folk instruments have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. There are many kinds of used folk instruments to choose from, but at 1stDibs, Folk Art, Art Deco and Victorian used folk instruments are of considerable interest. Used folk instruments have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Apache Indian Art, Emile Deyrolle and Estey Organ Corp. are consistently popular.

How Much are Used Folk Instruments?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,200, while they’re typically $40 on the low end and $16,000 highest priced.
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