Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
"The EDITION D'OR® series of books, now numbering over 40 different titles, presents prestigious collections which have been awarded International Large Gold medals or the elusive Grand Prix. These volumes were conceived and developed by Corinphila Auktionen and Heinrich Köhler with the intention to make the finest and most famous stamp collections of our time accessible to future generations of collectors. Documenting a collection in an EDITION D'OR book is a tangible and lasting recognition of a philatelist's life work."
... the pitch
... the shop
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/s/ ikeyPikey
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I wonder how much it costs to have your collection "immortalized" (something you can do yourself with a scanner or digital camera (maybe even an i-phone, not sure).
As to purchasing the "collections" it appears that the big name auctions do as good a job and you can even get prices realized - and they are cheap, very cheap if a few years old (but just as useful).
Just my two cents
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"As to purchasing the "collections" it appears that the big name auctions do as good a job and you can even get prices realized - and they are cheap, very cheap if a few years old (but just as useful)."
Am I missing Webpaper's point here? The big name auctions usually only document collections when the collector dies (or very occasionally decides to give up the collection prematurely due to ill health etc). I can't speak for all the people on this list, but Lars Peter Svendsen and Knut Heister at least (as far as I know) are still alive and well. So if you are a specialist in Heligoland or Venezuela, and want to study those two seminal collections now rather than post-author's-demise you need the books that are advertised there.
OK, 70 Euros is not cheap, but it is hardly excessive in terms of what one pays for specialist philatelic books. And I doubt if either of these gentlemen would be likely to sell you cheaper sets of illustrations by photographing them on their I-phones.
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Collections are often broken-up for sale, so there may be a certain coherence that you would not get from one/more auction catalog(s), even if the entire collection were to go to auction.
Philatelic reference books always look expensive next to, say, magazines; but EU 70 is an amount many of us will drop on a single stamp or cover.
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/s/ ikeyPikey
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Some people are buying them. I note that there are a number of them that are "Out of Stock".
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Q/ Anybody buy any of these books? Whadja think?
"The EDITION D'OR® series of books, now numbering over 40 different titles, presents prestigious collections which have been awarded International Large Gold medals or the elusive Grand Prix. These volumes were conceived and developed by Corinphila Auktionen and Heinrich Köhler with the intention to make the finest and most famous stamp collections of our time accessible to future generations of collectors. Documenting a collection in an EDITION D'OR book is a tangible and lasting recognition of a philatelist's life work."
... the pitch
... the shop
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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06:26:02am
re: Edition D'Or: "beautiful collections, beautifully presented"
I wonder how much it costs to have your collection "immortalized" (something you can do yourself with a scanner or digital camera (maybe even an i-phone, not sure).
As to purchasing the "collections" it appears that the big name auctions do as good a job and you can even get prices realized - and they are cheap, very cheap if a few years old (but just as useful).
Just my two cents
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05:10:20pm
re: Edition D'Or: "beautiful collections, beautifully presented"
"As to purchasing the "collections" it appears that the big name auctions do as good a job and you can even get prices realized - and they are cheap, very cheap if a few years old (but just as useful)."
Am I missing Webpaper's point here? The big name auctions usually only document collections when the collector dies (or very occasionally decides to give up the collection prematurely due to ill health etc). I can't speak for all the people on this list, but Lars Peter Svendsen and Knut Heister at least (as far as I know) are still alive and well. So if you are a specialist in Heligoland or Venezuela, and want to study those two seminal collections now rather than post-author's-demise you need the books that are advertised there.
OK, 70 Euros is not cheap, but it is hardly excessive in terms of what one pays for specialist philatelic books. And I doubt if either of these gentlemen would be likely to sell you cheaper sets of illustrations by photographing them on their I-phones.
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re: Edition D'Or: "beautiful collections, beautifully presented"
Collections are often broken-up for sale, so there may be a certain coherence that you would not get from one/more auction catalog(s), even if the entire collection were to go to auction.
Philatelic reference books always look expensive next to, say, magazines; but EU 70 is an amount many of us will drop on a single stamp or cover.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: Edition D'Or: "beautiful collections, beautifully presented"
Some people are buying them. I note that there are a number of them that are "Out of Stock".
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