what happens to collections for sale?
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:38 pm
Admittedly my own collecting interest is very narrow ("military Wiltshire"), but I seldom see any evidence of a dealer having bought a specialist collection. A year ago, one was selling off a relative's album of early aviation, and more recently one trader was offering a box of just-bought "military medical" and another had a high proportion of Melksham. But most offerings of new "military Wiltshire" (such as they are; the supply seems to be drying up) consists of one or two cards, almost as if they've been acquired from a random accumulation of very varied cards.
I wonder if dealers sell on within the trade part of a specialist collection won at auction?
And on more than one occasion I've noticed copies of the same "new" card being offered by several dealers; I don't suppose there's much point in one dealer having six copies of the same card, so, again, I wonder does (s)he spread them around? (By "new", I mean a vintage card I haven't noticed before.)
Moonraker
I wonder if dealers sell on within the trade part of a specialist collection won at auction?
And on more than one occasion I've noticed copies of the same "new" card being offered by several dealers; I don't suppose there's much point in one dealer having six copies of the same card, so, again, I wonder does (s)he spread them around? (By "new", I mean a vintage card I haven't noticed before.)
Moonraker