Interesting item indeed....... Thanks, Martin, for posting the link from
Ebay. Biff is correct in that I no longer have "one" of the known Bugeye
baby seats. Seeing as how the seller lives close to where I live, I made an
appointment to go look at it and compare it to photos of the one I once
owned and pictures in Horlers book... Since I have owned one and since
passed it on to another owner I have always questioned the issue of
"originality". If something, be it a baby seat, or an interior panel,
specific in its apperance and constructtion, or a badge such as the OLD
cloisine enamel BMW motorcycle emblems, or other vintage automobile itemss
has been dissasembled and major peices of them replaced with more modern
materials is it an "origianal"???? Or does it become a "reproduction"
simply as the result of having been rebuilt to make it more astheticaly
presentable. Could you repair a Stradavarius that was missing the neck by
replacing the missing neck with one made of modern materials and redoing the
finish to blend the seperate components, and if so would it still be a
Stradavarius because the "body is still present", or would it at that point
become a "reproduction" at that stage? Is the "value" in the "name" of an
item, or is the value in the patina and unrestored condition of an
"original" Ahhhh... the issues we ponder...
Leo
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