5 Jun
2011
5 Jun
'11
3:04 a.m.
On 6/5/11 1:28 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
The predictable response.
You'll find that model trains are fairly unpopular at antique
furniture swap meets as well.
The antique instrument collectors' world is pretty significant, and
quite active. They just tend not to associate much with the antique
computer collectors, and even less so with the antique radio
collectors...the latter probably because those guys keep peddling the
stuff at radio swap meets and it ends up getting trashed!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Huge collector
market, especially in bakelite or wood cased. condition
is most everything to collectors.
Hmmmm...I would not call it huge. In the old radio collector world,
the old lab type test equipment is almost at the bottom of the
popularity pile. At the old radio swapfests, test equipment,
especially the lab type stuff, often ends up in the junker auctions at
the end of the day. Sometimes a very good piece can fetch a good price
on Ebay, but quite a few more generally do not do very well.