Amazed by the price achieved!!

[GriffMJ]

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.

[saintconor]

It is a LOVELY badge though. But not £168 lovely

[GriffMJ]

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.

[ebro]

..... so just grabbing a Gaunt AA motto and giving it a spray black will not fool the experienced.

You might only get £150

[William]

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

[Mike H]

Amazed .

[Staffsyeoman]

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.

[GriffMJ]

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.

[Peter Brydon]

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.

[GriffMJ]

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.

[Mike H]

Originally Posted by GriffMJ

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.

I agree Griff,you wouldnt believe the amount of people that say well it fetched so much at auction ,trying to justify the price.

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by GriffMJ

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.

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!

[GriffMJ]

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.

[Hussar100]

Originally Posted by GriffMJ

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.

You could start your own ossuary and treat it like a bank vault.

[Lancer 17]

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.