Variability in Badge Price Over a Year

[Wooffy]

Last year I thought about tracking the price of a badge on eBay to see how it shaped up over the year. Today I have had the time to correlate the results to see how it looks so thought I would share. Being as I collect to the Observer Corps and Royal Observer Corps, it was understandable that I would use one of their examples. So I chose to look at an Other Ranks Lugged White Metal Cap Badge with a KC. (Example attached).

There are a couple of variants, noticeably ones which are die stamped and ones which are die cast. (I excluded examples with a slider). This is what I found:

In the period 12/11/2019 - 08/11/2020 a total of 55 examples were sold as single lots through eBay. (This does not include examples which formed part of a group). Out of those 55 examples only 2 were die cast, a further 2 were damaged and another badly tarnished.

The highest price realised was £25.48 and this was a die stamped example.
The lowest price realised as £4.73 and this was also a die stamped example.
(Note Prices include the cost quoted in the auction listing for postage).

The average price paid over the year, including postage was £12.02 (as indicated by the orange line on the attached graph).