10-24-2011, 11:10 PM
we get that a lot here.
to start you need to inventory all of it,
lay it all out on a white sheet and take a photo or group of photos that allows every thing to be seen, High quality photos so that any intrested parties can see what you have.
personaly, I would not sell, but I do understand things are what they are.
my second choice would to take them to a flea market. there are wheelers and dealers there. many times they will buy all you have. Just remember to you they are vintage to them they are old. A lure is only a collectors item if the person who is buying it is a collector.
another thing to remember is, the value of it when it was bought, today a rapalla may cost 5-8 dollars, when your dad bought it, its over the counter cost may have only been a buck fifty to three dollars.
You may find that they are worth more as fishing lures than collectors items.
then you have to look at, how much you have to move, fifty lures, a hundred, five hundred?
for most vintage lures, they need to be in the box unopened with any and all papers that came with it pressent. other wise they are used lures. Only hand carved and hand paintes lures really have any value.
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to start you need to inventory all of it,
lay it all out on a white sheet and take a photo or group of photos that allows every thing to be seen, High quality photos so that any intrested parties can see what you have.
personaly, I would not sell, but I do understand things are what they are.
my second choice would to take them to a flea market. there are wheelers and dealers there. many times they will buy all you have. Just remember to you they are vintage to them they are old. A lure is only a collectors item if the person who is buying it is a collector.
another thing to remember is, the value of it when it was bought, today a rapalla may cost 5-8 dollars, when your dad bought it, its over the counter cost may have only been a buck fifty to three dollars.
You may find that they are worth more as fishing lures than collectors items.
then you have to look at, how much you have to move, fifty lures, a hundred, five hundred?
for most vintage lures, they need to be in the box unopened with any and all papers that came with it pressent. other wise they are used lures. Only hand carved and hand paintes lures really have any value.
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