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Amazed by the price achieved!!
Hi All
A Blackened AA Gaunt Motto (1980s NI) has just sold for £168 Somebody REALLY wanted that. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1415305852...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT This is my own.... so you can see what it is.
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It is a LOVELY badge though. But not £168 lovely
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I can see the spray cans at the ready!! Luckily...... Gaunt only did one specific type....... so just grabbing a Gaunt AA motto and giving it a spray black will not fool the experienced.
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..... so just grabbing a Gaunt AA motto and giving it a spray black will not fool the experienced.
You might only get £150 |
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Congratulations to the winning bidder; not too many of these 17/21L badges out there in blackened AA.
I bid £48 on this one and then staggered off to bed, secure in the certain knowledge that surely no-one wd bid more for such a badge. Ha ha ha! Woke up this morning to be shocked by this latest demonstration of the rarity and rocketing value of certain AA badges. Awra best to all William |
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Amazed .
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Not as amazed as I was to see a WW2 officer's SD badge to the Staffordshire Yeomanry sell on our favourite online site for £189.
This year I will have been a badge collector for 40 years. At this rate there's going to be little point in carrying on as nothing is going to be faintly affordable. |
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What gets me is that they are not rare (the black motto)..... I saw five for sale last year.... all going for varying prices, but none of them achieved that kind of price.
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The only thing that I get out of daft prices like this is that it helps me to justify to myself purchases for my own collection when I feel I have probably paid more than I feel I should have done.
P.B.
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Peter
I fear that a price paid like that just alerts the dealers...... and suddenly it becomes unaffordable. Again.... this is not a rare motto.
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I agree Griff,you wouldnt believe the amount of people that say well it fetched so much at auction ,trying to justify the price.
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Here Griff, what about that stack of mottoes you've got? You could be looking at a substantial pension fund investment there now if they keep on fetching prices like that!
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My pile of bones.... gleam a little bit brighter today I am getting to the point where its becoming harder to find something I don't have (apart from the ££££££s Officers) There are some very rare ORs Mottoes though.... and just as worthy of a good price.
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Cofion gorau Gruffydd M-J www.paoyeomanry.org.uk "A Yeoman from the Stalwart Rural Cavalry" Lechyd da pob Cymro Last edited by GriffMJ; 12-01-15 at 03:48 PM. |
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You could start your own ossuary and treat it like a bank vault.
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head. |
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Hi Griff
Yes amazing, pitty I dont have a blackened AA but whats my blackened metal Motto from the 1980's that was used in Oman worth. You will have a photo of it some where. Regards Phil. |
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