Was this a double duty fork?

[bikewhorder]

So at the Copake auction last weekend in lot number 480 there was a fork that I thought for sure was gonna initiate a bidding frenzy. It looked to me like a double duty fork which Ive seen people asking $2k and up. I figured in a public setting like this there was no way it was going to go cheap but it actually didn't even get bid on apparently. Am I just confused, was this not what I think it was?? I tried to do some research on my own but I couldn't really find any good pictures. It looks like the Crown on this one has been modified? I would have thought the streamlined egg crate rack on here was worth at least the opening $70 bid.

 

[Freqman1]

From that pic it is hard to tell but something looks off to me for it to be a DD. V/r Shawn

 

[cyclingday]

No, the crown on the Double Duty is way different from that one.
That one was definitely someone’s shoddy home built attempt.

 

[WillWork4Parts]

It took me a couple of days to find this Simplex post again only to realize the auction forks are tapered, where these aren't.
Still worth linking together in case anyone else is out there searching on the fringes....

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