Brocks Manchester City pre war List

[martino]

treble99 wrote:

mustard68 wrote: "they outbid two dealers.." what makes you think they were dealers? Well they stopped at dealer sort of levels,if you bear in mind 1 They might not have noticed the 1937 Charity Shield 2 They might not have noticed the City v Manchester United in the Lancs cup that was not noted My valuation of full retail of possibly £25k is obviously only an opinion Other values that have been put to me are nearer £23k At an underbidder of £14500 plus commission you are a buyer at almost £17k As a dealer then a profit of £6-9k represents 25 to 35% which is fair enough After that the margins start to become tight for something that you are undoubtably going to have to carry a portion of for a fair time as after the initial rush tehre will be some dead meat That is the basis on my assuming it was a dealer or two on the internet. It could of course have been a collector with a budget of around £15k to spend which is fair enough or possibly a collector who got his valuation wrong It does however feel like dealer bids at a fair level

Total outlay will be around 20K - see my earlier post.

So not a lot of margin for error if the 23 to 25K value turns out to be a bit optimistic.

[Baltimore]

Dear Barry,

Thanks for injecting some humour & spice into the debate!

Boing....boing!

[BAZZABAGGIES]

Thank you.. Brothers come in handy

[martino]

So was it the same buyer who paid £650 plus commission for the 1953 to 1962 large collection of "Manchester City home and away programmes" at Runcorn yesterday? A comprehensive collection including loads of Reserves.

Amongst it, and not detailed, were a number of Manchester United early 50's programmes including one from The Cliff in very good condition, a few tickets tucked away in programmes and a few other gems.

[treble99]

martino wrote:

So was it the same buyer who paid £650 plus commission for the 1953 to 1962 large collection of "Manchester City home and away programmes" at Runcorn yesterday? A comprehensive collection including loads of Reserves. Amongst it, and not detailed, were a number of Manchester United early 50's programmes including one from The Cliff in very good condition, a few tickets tucked away in programmes and a few other gems.

maybe it was a dealer

Those programmes at the Cliff are very rare