Re: More valuations

"John Turner" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "kim" wrote in message
>
>> A few years ago the father of a friend of mine - with absolutely no
>> interest in model railways - died and left him a bungalow full of
>> this stuff. All third-rail, all mint with original boxes. At the
>> time I didn't know what to do with it so a local dealer agreed ot
>> "take it off his his hands" for a couple of hundred quid. It makes
>> me weep just thinking about it now.
>
> The old hindsight issue. If we could all see into the future we'd
> all be rich thanks to stock-market and lottery wins.
>
> I sold my extensive collection of Dublo 3-rail back in 1968 for £15
> - mind you that was not far short of two week's wages at the time.

My dear departed mother sold (or gave away) my not-so-extensive but
carefully-maintained Dublo collection in the late sixties after I came
to Canada. Luckily, she did not dispose of the Dublo Dinky/Matchbox
collection, which I have since augmented at swapmeets, along with newer
OOC and EFE buses & trucks.

--
Martin S.
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