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Post Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:22 am 
 

Perhaps he works at a minting press and accidentally left the box on the machine.
  

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:23 am 
 


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I don't know if this is a silliest auction candidate or not. It's different.


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:56 am 
 

webrik33 wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I don't know if this is a silliest auction candidate or not. It's different.


Finds like this are more valuable to me than the items in which the notes are found, but I usually get it thrown in for free. I suppose if the notes were on display in an art gallery, $500 would be cheap, & I'd pay it if I could afford it. But I can't, so yes, it is a candidate for silliest in that sense.
  

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:28 am 
 

sauromatian wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:
webrik33 wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I don't know if this is a silliest auction candidate or not. It's different.


Finds like this are more valuable to me than the items in which the notes are found, but I usually get it thrown in for free. I suppose if the notes were on display in an art gallery, $500 would be cheap, & I'd pay it if I could afford it. But I can't, so yes, it is a candidate for silliest in that sense.


you can buy all my notes for $500! I have box full of notebooks, maps, worlds, you name it!


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:32 pm 
 

webrik33 wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:you can buy all my notes for $500! I have box full of notebooks, maps, worlds, you name it!


Sure, you may have the same imaginary $500 that I would have bought this eBay lot with. Here it is, catch!
  

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Post Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:19 pm 
 

webrik33 wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:you can buy all my notes for $500! I have box full of notebooks, maps, worlds, you name it!

Heh; for shame... selling your worlds so cheaply. ;)


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Post Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:10 pm 
 

AHAHAHAHAHA!!! OH, the Pain!  :lol:


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Post Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:03 pm 
 

SimperingToad wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:AHAHAHAHAHA!!! OH, the Pain!  :lol:


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+ $53.25 shipping and fake "import charges" to the UK, of course. Thanks, but I think I'll pass even if that particular copy is "unique". ;)


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Post Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 6:30 pm 
 

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What in the name of creation ?!?!  Is this what these things are going for nowadays, or is this just a fluke bidding war?


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Post Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:29 pm 
 

Nice looking first print with all the goodies. 3 different bidders over $300. I wouldn't call it a fluke, seems legit to me. Those first prints are getting hard to come by.

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:19 pm 
 

Zenfinite wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:Nice looking first print with all the goodies. 3 different bidders over $300. I wouldn't call it a fluke, seems legit to me. Those first prints are getting hard to come by.

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Sort of agree.
Not ridiculous, but higher than I would have paid..


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:18 am 
 

Zenfinite wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:Nice looking first print with all the goodies. 3 different bidders over $300. I wouldn't call it a fluke, seems legit to me. Those first prints are getting hard to come by.

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I'd say its far too much for a likely frankenstein (hole punched items are not belonging to the 1st print). Are the dice original?
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Post Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:11 am 
 

What dice? ^^

Going to have to frankenstein to complete, anyhow, variable climate effects on the loose sheets that are present, damp-stained box bottom, etc.

Difficult to explain relative to the previous 1st print price, IMO, even if three serious bidders at $300+ as noted before a step down to ~$150.
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Post Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:37 pm 
 

aia wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I'd say its far too much for a likely frankenstein (hole punched items are not belonging to the 1st print). Are the dice original?
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I'm not so sure it's a Frankenstein.  I have two first print M&T Set Ones, one in a Holmes set.  Both are three-hole punched.  On the other hand, my M&T Set One second print isn't three-hole punched.

In any case, this seems a bit high, maybe by a hundred dollars or so, given the condition and the lack of dice.  But it's not wildly out of the ballpark.  It's getting very hard to find first print Holmes sets.


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Post Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:35 am 
 

...ok but saying that its higher by 100 bucks, it means far away from the price considered "fair"... i was thinking smtg similar maybe a bit less, in the range of half of the final value...
Anyway there is currently an auction with a geos1 unpunched: should anyone be looking for a good frankenstein, thats a real gem!
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Post Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:43 pm 
 

I might be missing something here:

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I get that it's a 1st edition, 1st print, and it is very clean, except for the stain on the cover, but this blows away the highest price seen before by a $1K.  Highest price before was around $2K for one that the collector's trove sold in 2008. I don't know if it's a silly price, because someone thought it was worth it, but it is a huge price jump.
  

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:53 pm 
 

burntwire brothers wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:
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Seems like I have seen this same listing for at least 6 months to a year. Maybe seller figures one day....
  
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