Collectors

Back in the pre internet days,we had Der Gauleiters collectors magazine to read and we raced to the mail box
to get at it!

I believe Bob Treend had it!

The ads,for sale and buying by many early legends! Articles on very good topics and pics!

You can still find them! Who has them?

Prices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who would have known!

As collectors we had very little! This was something to look forward in getting!

But some early fakers were also at work! Gordon Manley and the visors!

They had a frog! Der mole or frog or something that folks were trying to find out who it was!

Telling secrets!!!!!!!


Then Manions was the dumping ground for the crapola dealers bought or collectors burned on needed to get rid of!


Many of the printed catalogs were the lifeline to collectors! Which onesdid you read!


Auctions and other venues dumped the crapola as they still do!


Fraud,mistakes all go to such places! Internet names that make us older guys cringe to hear their names!

Snyder, Please add to them!


Epier,ebay,shows,auctions and the list goes on!


Many dealers would make sure their hands were clean,and name!


Now everyone makes mistakes! But how many continue to sell the same thing over and over!


Many do not realize or care! But many collectors and dealers do! The electronic finger print! Called files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Knowledge is money a long time collector told me long ago!


We have some real sharp collectors on the forum! And in the past some real real sharp ones!


PVON

Last edited by pvon; 10/13/2021 01:17 AM.