killjoy32 wrote:Deadlord36 wrote:Mbassoc is right, I have 4 printings with minor variations such as coloring, etc.
See, I DID get up and check!
ok ok ok will let you off...you still retain your position of
JG master....to go with ian, david and others i hold in similar regard...
but next time mister, more promptness plz!
Hey, Frank, you've got a tough case here. No respecter of time zones, whatsoever!
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mbassoc2003 wrote:I think, al la Rahasia and 1st Print PoVQ, you may find that they did many small print runs of the '1st print Tegel'.
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As with Modron and CSIO, the evidence seems to indicate that subcribers received their mods before they were released for sale by mail order.
(Plus 1st print OD&D set: possibly printing extra covers when required, so it appears...).
Is not
quite in the same category, I think, since all of these had unknown small "demand" from potential buyers, whereas the Tegel had a known subscription base.
A few thousand subscription Tegels would make more sense as a single print run; in the first instance, at least.
Almost certain the subscription copies were made available first and there should have been some overrun from that, you would've thought- unless, of course, they'd under-estimated the growing number of subscribers and hence had to do a few "make up" print runs.
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Then, later, the orange copy for purchase in its own right, with those minor resettings.
(And/or they could've made those changes and back-filled any o/s or new subscription orders, but would need more information on that, I think).
mbassoc2003 wrote:As is would be near impossible to distinguish between them and put them in order with any certainty, and as they all seem to achieve the same sorts of values on eBay, I tend to consider them all as 1st Print Tegels.
Well, no-one had advertised the differences particularly well, so I wouldn't read much into the realisations ('cept they're all very much high-side, just now).
If there are text re-settings/amendments on the orange copies, that's a different print
IMO regardless of where that is stated on a copyright/printing line.
The difference in paper stock would've been close enough in it's own right: certainly ample and consistent enough to note as a "variation", but with further supporting evidence from the sub copies vs. those separately bought.
Whether any of this actually makes a difference to $ or desirability in the long run is another matter, but I
personally wouldn't pay overly high for an orange copy.
02 cents only, of course.
