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Awesome model car display! What brand are they?

 

Spare space on your shelves! I remember that (sigh).

 

Wow, that’s quite the collection . Thanks for the info!

 

oooh YES. (sigh)

 

I see you already have Alberto's new book. Did you order the special edition?

(Is my local library card good in case I wanted to borrow some of those? )

 

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Here are 4 of the 30 towers I have.
All USM. 23 meters lenght in total.
Three rooms.

Marcel Massini

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I had a Redline BMX back in the early 80s... love seeing this Mongoose!

 

I hope this is not too much of a tangent, but what are the options for someone who wants to get rid of his collection of Ferrari books and magazines? I visited a Ferrari collector this week and he's in his eighties. His childern aren't interested in the Ferrari stuff (Not even his cars!). Most of his book collection is mainstream, but there are also complete series of club magazines, Ferrari Market Letter etc and he showed a little book (the very first on Ferrari?) of which another copy recently sold at auction for 2.500 Euro. I don't think he's interested in parting out his collection, but is it realistic to think someone would buy the whole lot? I think it's at least six bookcases full (size comparable to Marcel Massini's example).

 

Selling almost any type of collection as just one lot is difficult...time consuming, needs a lot of good marketing effort, photos info, etc, etc, and the potential group of buyers is not always large, and then there is getting the attention of the right buyers. Of course there's much more to say about this.....

 

Also most of the people willing to collect at this level have built their own collection to some level already. For them it is to some degree duplicate copies. Though for a few there is a desire to upgrade something like a yearbook with a copy in better condition. The breadth of this collection may be overwhelming for many with a narrow Ferrari focus. The shipping cost of all that 'weight' would be rather daunting.
The car literature collection of Harold Angel was sold piecemeal on eBay but that took a very long time to complete. That collection as it was assembled over many decades with world wide contacts probably sold for much less than the effort in putting it together represented. Just the 'typical' reality of disposing of a vast hoard of books.

 

No, I would say. The necessary level of interest usually takes time to develop. This process also allows for what amounts to "paying over time". It would be extremely usual to find someone who suddenly has the sufficient degree of interest AND the finance to acquire a large and expensive collection. Lacking this, the issue of duplicate items, inevitably, becomes a problem. The only way to overcome this is with a substantial discount, so as to make disposing of or reselling duplicates a viable option.

On the other hand, breaking up a large collection comes with its own problems. Auction houses are selective about what they will take and keep a significant cut of the proceeds. eBay also takes a cut, is time consuming for a large collection, and leaves one vulnerable to the fraud and frustration that have become endemic to the platform. As Marshall alluded to, it can all get rather complex, rather quickly...

 

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Large lots of books can be a great way to buy, although probably less so for many sellers. The attached lot from a Bonhams sale a few years ago provides a good illustration. Some would have you believe that Matthias Bartz's first edition Dino Compendium is a $1000+ book in and of itself. In this case, it was just one of a 75 book lot that included other desirable titles, all of which sold for $280, inclusive of the auction commission...

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You can not go by results from Bonhams or Gooding or RM, etc. on selling prices of books. They typically do a very poor job of selling books. Many reasons why on this.

 

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