new month, new Pedigree

[etanick]

http://comics.ha.com/common/search_results.php?N=52+793+794+791+1893+792+2088+4294956277+4294966825

 

hopefully this is not a repost

[Junkdrawer]

news to me

[etanick]

I was just about to delete the original post since Doc Joe just mentioned it a few posts below

[Dick Pontoon]

Don't get your hopes too high.

[the420kid]

hot dog! more pedigree books than i shake a stick at in 2011.

[Silver Surfer]

It wasn't too long ago when many people here speculated that we wouldn't see any more significant pedigree collections surface. I'm glad they were wrong.

[Mutie Fan]

Pedigree designations appear to have become nothing more than a marketing tool for the larger dealers/auction houses. The hobby as a whole no longer gets a say.

[Silver Surfer]

Perhaps but collections of 5,000+ books [Rocky Mountain] and now the Twin Cities [6,000+ books] in high grade probably deserve to be called pedigrees.

[Old Fashion PB and J]

Perhaps but collections of 5,000+ books [Rocky Mountain] and now the Twin Cities [6,000+ books] in high grade probably deserve to be called pedigrees.

I agree, but you would maybe agree it is dropping the premium (a little?) that pedigree books command. Many are just being treated like any other book in the same grade.

[Mutie Fan]

I'm not so sure. I would not be shocked if multiple board members had collections of that caliber. Does every one that comes up deserve pedigree status? This "devalues" the idea of a pedigree in my opinion. Pedigrees are supposed to be rare freaks of nature. Now we get a new one several times a year.

[drdonaldblake]

Susha who??!!

 

this Twin Cities looks like a proper pedigree. # 1 keys in HIGH GRADE not low grade like Susha

[500Club]

It wasn't too long ago when many people here speculated that we wouldn't see any more significant pedigree collections surface. I'm glad they were wrong.

You're in luck. I think there are plenty more old Silver OO collections that will trickle to market as the owners age.

[drdonaldblake]

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&LotIdNo=50024

[drdonaldblake]

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&LotIdNo=50023

[drdonaldblake]

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&LotIdNo=50003

[drdonaldblake]

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&LotIdNo=50004

[drdonaldblake]

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&LotIdNo=50007

[seanfingh]

 

You fixed the caps lock thing, can't you work on embedding the pics now?

[Mr 9.8]

Yowzah!

[Mio]

I'm not so sure. I would not be shocked if multiple board members had collections of that caliber. Does every one that comes up deserve pedigree status? This "devalues" the idea of a pedigree in my opinion. Pedigrees are supposed to be rare freaks of nature. Now we get a new one several times a year.

 

If it devalues legacy pedigrees... maybe they were overvalued in the first place, as many other original owner collections sat unknown. With a few hundred million Americans, it shouldn't be a surprise that there are a few dozen big collections of funny books; in that respect, they may be relatively rare, but less so than originally thought.