On 10-11-15 10:23 AM, Derek Boles wrote:
Just like other hobbies like stamp collecting. Sure, this stamp might be rare and worth a fortune, but only under a very specific set of conditions. Take your "rare" stamp to a dealer and he has 100 more just like yours in a drawer. Now if it was part of an uncirculated set, you might have something. Same goes for coins, the stuff in your pocket is worth face value. Since the Mint got into collector coins, a lot of mint sets are not worth a lot either, because everyone has one. Or two.1b. Re: [casing] Re: CPR 5900 Selkirk's west of Taft, BC.And what, pray tell, would those good reasons be? I've encountered a number of
Posted by: "K V Railway" kvrailway@xxxxxxx kvrailway
Date: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:07 am ((PST))
Old-timers are sometimes quite aware of the historical value of their
material. They have their good reasons for not sharing this material,
frustrating as that may be to the modelling and rail-fan community.
rail photographers or copyright owners of rail photographs who think that
they're sitting on top of some gold mine. Maybe they read the news stories of
some of these Ansel Adams or Winston Link photographs that are fetching a
fortune these days. Or they hear of some idiot on eBay with more money than
brains who pays $700 for a slide.
