No Signals Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Item number 133665545435. No connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 latest bid £62 l must have a fortune in my book shelfs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Early days yet Wally, I have seen them go for over £100. So you are richer than you first thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I bought a few prior to the auctions in the 70's and I think they were only about one shilling, so good investment. Would never have realised it at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I gave 2 boxes full of them to Clive that came out of Hursts so sitting on a fortune as well but I would rather see them accesible than in private collection's. Just need someone to scan them all in now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Yes Neil they are still here & compliment the other half of the Hurst collection of the later catalogues. For several years I have been periodically sending them to Geoff Fletcher who is not only scanning them but feeding the scans to an OCR to construct a database. This will be a formidable resource, there are only a few of the early ones that have yet to be traced. Although this may ultimately effect the value of these catalogues it will never match up to experience of savouring the detail of the real document, the smell of musty paper, the well thumbed page, the rusting paper clip, the annotations scribbled in the margins be it the price reached, the max bid, the good/bad comments about a vehicle. I am lucky as I have a few auctioneer's catalogues which are doubled sized with extra pages to record the sale price achieved & minimum bid which apparently was based on prices realised from previous sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 (edited) I must have only paid about £1 each at the time. I understand their site in the village where I brought them is now houses. Still looking for the catalogue which features the sale of my Daimler Armoured Car which must have been one of the last sold. Edited February 20, 2021 by REME 245 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Signals Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 £172.89!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 To pay £ 172.89 , then it must have been somebody with a interest of a particular vehicle that he owns ? I should still have mine from abt. 1975 to 1980 (complete with my £ annotations) in the bottom of a filing cabinet not opened in over 30 years ! Seems best left closed as a £££ investment (but not for I) ,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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