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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:31 pm

Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:38 pm

bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

It is the rarer version with the signed Easley print. Only 1000 of that version were made. The silver sticker on the front is the give-away. Most of the sets w/o the signature have been selling for around $90 or more lately.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:39 pm

bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

Probably.

So much for it being a "good gauge of current value", Frank. Ok, ok, I'm just jealous.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:48 pm

burntwire brothers wrote:
bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

It is the rarer version with the signed Easley print. Only 1000 of that version were made. The silver sticker on the front is the give-away. Most of the sets w/o the signature have been selling for around $90 or more lately.

I had assumed they were random and there was no way to tell. Does that mean that the info here is incorrect?

http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/miscpages/silver.html

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:52 pm

burntwire brothers wrote:
bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

It is the rarer version with the signed Easley print. Only 1000 of that version were made. The silver sticker on the front is the give-away. Most of the sets w/o the signature have been selling for around $90 or more lately.

I was wondering about that sticker. Thanks for the info.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:02 pm

News to me. I thought a shrink set was a shrink set. I hope Trove enjoys it (well, looking at it, I suppose).

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:26 pm

burntwire brothers wrote:
bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

It is the rarer version with the signed Easley print. Only 1000 of that version were made. The silver sticker on the front is the give-away. Most of the sets w/o the signature have been selling for around $90 or more lately.

Yes.. I guess if the numbers are right, that that makes a one to

four ratio of signed to unsigned prints..

I'm curious what people would rate as the rarity for a limited edition

of 1000 copies - is that about a 4, or does it stretch a 5!?

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:25 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:
burntwire brothers wrote:
bombadil wrote:Wow. Congrats to Frank on getting a kick-ass price for his shrink-wrapped 25th Anniversary box set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Is that a new record?

It is the rarer version with the signed Easley print. Only 1000 of that version were made. The silver sticker on the front is the give-away. Most of the sets w/o the signature have been selling for around $90 or more lately.

I had assumed they were random and there was no way to tell. Does that mean that the info here is incorrect?

http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/miscpages/silver.html

Burntwire pointed out the sticker on the shrinkwrap as an indicator in a pervious thread. I previously thought there was no difference. An email has been sent to Foul requesting a correction to the acaeum information page.

I suspect un-opened versions with the sticker are very rare indeed.

Cheers,

Curt

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:28 pm

mud2guard wrote:I'm curious what people would rate as the rarity for a limited edition of 1000 copies - is that about a 4, or does it stretch a 5!?

Maybe a 4, some day, but definitely not a 5.

If 1000 copies were printed 30 years ago, that might make a 5 -- most of them wouldn't survive. Because these have always been marketed as a collector's item, it's doubtful they'll ever be truly rare. The survival rate is too high.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:19 pm

It is? How many people have one?

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:51 pm

I have one in shrink with that sticker on it. I got it last summer for $60 US from a store that still had it as old stock. I only bought it to resell it but now it looks like it is going to stay in the hoard for a while.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:53 pm

Mars wrote:I have one in shrink with that sticker on it. I got it last summer for $60 US from a store that still had it as old stock.

Could you open it to see if the signed Easley print is really included when the sticker is present?

ok ok

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:07 pm

It is driving me a bit crazy because I can't remember if my other set - the one that I opend years ago - had that sticker on it or not (the print in that on is not signed).

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:09 pm

Mars wrote:It is driving me a bit crazy because I can't remember if my other set - the one that I opend years ago - had that sticker on it or not (the print in that on is not signed).

Hypnosis gives good results on memories

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:36 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:It is? How many people have one?

I don't...

I have had at least six sets go through my hands and none have had a sticker on them. At least one set was not in shrink and that one did not have the signed poster.
I have one set in shrink and one out of shrink in my collection - I had to read L3...(shrink wrap lovers better take their heart medication).

I still maintain my drumbeat that these boxed sets will continue to increase in value.

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:00 am

So that's two. Anyone else? If not, it is officially rarer than Inverness, Tamo, Fazzle, etc. since the total number of known copies is far greater.
I think you will find that shrinked copies of this are a lot harder to find than you would think. And the unshrinked ones would have the Easley art missing in many cases.

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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:05 am

I've got one of the signed sets, bought from the collection of Keith Strohm via gal_havoc. But no longer in shrink! It cost about 102$ I

think.

If anyone is interested in a 1st edition games workshop players handbook

1st print (complete with phone number), its on sale in:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 8775465550

free postage to the UK.

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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:27 am

That auction also has a copy of one of the Game World newspapers. its not listed but its poking out under some of the Dragons.

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