Holy Moly. Most of the other stuff hit record prices too. Very few bargains at all. https://connect.invaluable.com...ion-lot/__81347198A7
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Actually very close to $39,000.00 without shipping and insurance.
wow!
Crazy auction. The thing that pushed it over the top was that most of the stuff was c7, c8, with a few pieces at c9. A single Roundhouse piece sold for close 8k.
Who said prices were crashing?
Dreyfuss Hudson posted:Who said prices were crashing?
you summed it up in your previous response. original tinplate (prewar, not modern) pieces in C7+ and above condition have never been depressed and are always the best (forgive my using this word...) investment. for every piece in condition "n", there there are 10+ pieces of the same thing in condition "n-1", however, the higher quality piece hardly ever sells for 10x the amount. but if i see a C7 item selling up to 2-3x that of the same piece in C6 condition, i will always go for the better condition.
cheers to the winners.
...gary
Seriously, $39,000 for that engine. It doesn't even look that nice does it? It looks like it was run, then disassembled and put back in the box as the original kit. Maybe I'm wrong, but thirty nine Gs? Geez!
I watched it go down on the computer. It was two people going head to head. One in the room, one online. It dragged on for a good 6 minutes. Incredible.
That really is amazing I am not sure that I would want to spend that kind of money on something tinplate related even if I had the coin to back it up when I know I could get a Repro for pennies on the dollar compared to that pricing or even less I understand that it's an original but I guess that's really true that for the purest that wants these items
Joe Gozzo
I think high quality Postwar Lionel is holding it's value quite well too.
Look at other prices and yes they have gone down: Macy set with 450 loco less than $500, etc.
Lots of prices much less than ebay, although you have to factor in buyers premium, etc. Salad days for common running stuff are over, thank goodness I always bought for my pleasure, haven't used a price "guide" in years.
But it came with track!
An original early Hellgate Bridge went for $2,126 on the Bay tonight. I bid up to $1.300 on it. I wasn't even close.
Mill City posted:wow!
An original box with original inserts plus all those extras, must be very hard to find in this completed condition, congrats to the buyer and seller.
