Where do you get your collection?
J. A. Mc.
found these unused words floating about:
>As someone interested in collecting, I would like to know where you, the
>experts go to find your collections. Can you really find stuff at a garage
>sale or is that just a myth? What other places would be good to get items at
>a reasonable cost?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Remo Rosati, author
"Experts" make use of any source that's available to find the best
material. Yes, you can get 'lucky' at a garage sale. You can also find
missed treasure in auctions and at dealers.
Alan & Erin Williams
Witness the recent find of a 1943 Wheat Cent struck on a dime planchet.
It sat in a closet for a year in a jar. The guy's mom bought the whole
jar at a yard sale because she knew her son liked 'old coins', and when
he finally got around to looking at what he assumed was junk, he struck
a rarity.
Alan
'likes the face value of roll searches'
Tracy Barber
wrote:
My brother just picked up some classic era common items for a penny
each. Even thugh they may have a CV of .20 US (Scott), some of them
are tough to find.
I'd pay a penny each for these in a second!
So - there are some tag sales, garage / yard / estate sales that have
some stuff like that, but the BIG thing would be to get there FIRST or
up there in the line. Many people will be looking for those things
first.
It only makes sense to us collctors...
Tracy Barber
John Stone
> As someone interested in collecting, I would like to know where you, the
> experts go to find your collections. Can you really find stuff at a garage
> sale or is that just a myth? What other places would be good to get items at
> a reasonable cost?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Remo Rosati, author
> http://www15.brinkster.com/div2003
> Now available at over 50,000 bookstores
Collections can be found anywhere, including garage sales, local
estate auctions etc. Ebay also, some will sell an whole collection of
something at once, not
even knowing the value of it but just to get rid of it as fast as
possible.
(usually something they inherited and have no interest in).
High Plains Writer
Great finds in unusual places are a topic we all love to talk (and
brag) about. That said, I have purchased just about every coin from a
dealer, most of them from dealers who advertise in THE CELATOR, a
magazine for ancient numismatics, artifacts, and history. Others, I
have bought at coin shows, mostly at ANA national conventions. I do
not shop eBay or flea markets. I have patronized one store very often
over the last 32 years, Liberty Coins of East Lansing, Michigan. They
have a knowledgeable staff.
Michael E. Marotta
Author of THE COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL STUDENT GUIDE TO FORTRAN
(out of print and unavailable)
John Davies
> to get items at a reasonable cost?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Remo Rosati, author
Once you have made a start and build up your collection - maybe not your
specialised area or you may have duplicates - the best way proceed is to
trade i.e. exchange pins. It's much more enjoyable than just selling and
you feel that you are helping out a fellow collector in building up
his/her collection as well as adding to yours. Few people on this group
trade pins which is disappointing. Since this is a hobby to many - it's
meant to be enjoyable.
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John Davies
PS if anyone has beer pins or bee pins to trade - please contact.