Re: [CR]Price Guide Was:Vintage Bike Value, Historical Information

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:46:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: <gholl@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Price Guide Was:Vintage Bike Value, Historical Information
In-reply-to: <B949B8E6-41C0-4702-A97D-07893998F4EE@earthlink.net>
To: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
References: <BAY122-F34F461D9BC4FD8977B4069CA260@phx.gbl>
cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Chuck: Go to the Antiquorum website and check out the section on sales. It's very informative as to every detail of every type of watch they've sold and gives values too! If only something like this existed for vintage bikes! Regards, George George Hollenberg MD Westport, CT, USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Schmidt"
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:20:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]Price Guide Was:Vintage Bike Value, Historical Information
To: "Classic Rendezvous"


> price guide?... Price Guide?... PRICE GUIDE??? (picture Dad in
> Breaking Away having nervous breakdown and repeating "REFUND?!).
>
> I was heavily into collecting vintage watches years ago (over it
>
> finally... whew!... thanks for asking) and remember the watch
> price
> guides. The insiders told me they were all written by big time
> collectors. The methodology was to set the prices in the book
> high
> for the watches that the collector/price guide author had a lot
> of in
> their own collection, and price low in the book the watches that
> the
> collector/price guide author was looking for for his own collection.
>
> GET IT?! (yeah, i thought you would)
>
> Chuck "i think your Galmozzi is worthless" Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA USA
> http://www.velo-retro.com (reprints, t-shirts & timelines)
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>

George Hollenberg MD
CT, USA