Auctions

[New Forest]

Had a search of the Sporting Memorys Catalogue for my club, Leyton. Nothing against them apart from having nothing at all. BUT, there seems to be a trend amongst auctioneers to offer 'bundles of programmes'. Unless it was a bundle from 1920 I am not interested in bidding for ten programmes if I only needed one. I take it that programmes from even now the early fifties are no longer commanding a decent price for the auction house to bother cataloguing it.

[TheSorter!]

With a few exceptions only pre-war non-London programmes are worth bothering with these days

[Auchinleckian]

The bundles attract the dealers? I've regularly seen some of the things I've put in in bundles ending up on dealer's lists within a month or two of the auction finishing.

[derby1884]

TheSorter! wrote:

With a few exceptions only pre-war non-London programmes are worth bothering with these days

It's no longer a hobby.

It's a niche market.
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[Tynie Topics]

It's annoying when there's one or two programmes that interest you in a bundle of 80-100 programmes. I'd like the two programmes but not the other 78.
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[DySporting]

I bought a huge box of football cards/stickers a few weeks ago. I only wanted very few of the items in the box. I collected the box from the auctioneers, took out the ones I required and left the box behind to be re auctioned. Saved sifting through and selling loads of stuff I didn’t want.