Pictures:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ci489lud7i637#3mbpzaad5sc6erp
Explanation:
Alright, my grandfather died 4 months ago. He was among other things a train enthusiast. He had a setup in his house (Which can be seen above), and many many model trains on shelves and drawers. Now i have been tasked by my mom with trying to find out the estimated value of what he had so that it can be sold to a collector as a whole. The obvious problem is none of us know how much this can be possibly be worth. We are not aiming to screw anyone, in fact, we pretty much figure we'll sell the whole thing for a very friendly price, under what it's worth. We want to be rid of it, but we also don't want it to go to waste, i feel among other things it would be disrespectful to my grandad and a shame when it this could be had by someone who can enjoy it and value it. My uncle was willing to just throw the whole thing away. My mom, thankfully, strongly objected.
Where i am a bit annoyed, is i'm tasked with doing this but i do not live near my grandfather's house so i cant properly inventory everything he had, which i would personally do if i could. Instead i was sent a bunch of pictures which only shows the setup and not all the trains in drawers and shelves. How many does he have precisely? What are the trains, which train to they represent? (i know that, as can be seen, there a lot of CP trains) who made them? I do no know.... I realise this makes any guesstimate very difficult and yes i do resent my mom a little for having me do this with very little precise info . I myself collect toy cars and gamebooks and know for a fact you can't put a proper value on any of those things if you don't know what they precisely are.
I have been to the house and would say there's maybe at a guess 50 or so model trains (lots of wagons, some locomotives, i say train but i mean....single wagons or locomotives) that are not seen on the pictures. Lots of tracks too, obviously.
What could be a good overall price for this? Is it completely impossible to put a value on this without all the details? We don't want to screw anyone, but we also dont want to be completely screwed either. As a collector if you were the buy the whole of this kinda blind, with only the above pics for reference and the mention there are about 50 other similar trains what average price would you offer? Am i being completely ridiculous by assuming anyone CAN make an even half decent guesstimate on this without all the details? (probably i am.....damn you mom)
Keep in mind the person who buys it WILL have to pick it up themselves so that should probably factor in the price too (meaning it has to be good enough they'd want to bother to go pick it up..obviously we'll have to find a collector in the region. Which btw is about three hours north of montreal canada....should anyone here be interested...i AM however in Montreal and could likely bring the collection here to accomodate anyone nearer)
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ci489lud7i637#3mbpzaad5sc6erp
Explanation:
Alright, my grandfather died 4 months ago. He was among other things a train enthusiast. He had a setup in his house (Which can be seen above), and many many model trains on shelves and drawers. Now i have been tasked by my mom with trying to find out the estimated value of what he had so that it can be sold to a collector as a whole. The obvious problem is none of us know how much this can be possibly be worth. We are not aiming to screw anyone, in fact, we pretty much figure we'll sell the whole thing for a very friendly price, under what it's worth. We want to be rid of it, but we also don't want it to go to waste, i feel among other things it would be disrespectful to my grandad and a shame when it this could be had by someone who can enjoy it and value it. My uncle was willing to just throw the whole thing away. My mom, thankfully, strongly objected.
Where i am a bit annoyed, is i'm tasked with doing this but i do not live near my grandfather's house so i cant properly inventory everything he had, which i would personally do if i could. Instead i was sent a bunch of pictures which only shows the setup and not all the trains in drawers and shelves. How many does he have precisely? What are the trains, which train to they represent? (i know that, as can be seen, there a lot of CP trains) who made them? I do no know.... I realise this makes any guesstimate very difficult and yes i do resent my mom a little for having me do this with very little precise info . I myself collect toy cars and gamebooks and know for a fact you can't put a proper value on any of those things if you don't know what they precisely are.
I have been to the house and would say there's maybe at a guess 50 or so model trains (lots of wagons, some locomotives, i say train but i mean....single wagons or locomotives) that are not seen on the pictures. Lots of tracks too, obviously.
What could be a good overall price for this? Is it completely impossible to put a value on this without all the details? We don't want to screw anyone, but we also dont want to be completely screwed either. As a collector if you were the buy the whole of this kinda blind, with only the above pics for reference and the mention there are about 50 other similar trains what average price would you offer? Am i being completely ridiculous by assuming anyone CAN make an even half decent guesstimate on this without all the details? (probably i am.....damn you mom)
Keep in mind the person who buys it WILL have to pick it up themselves so that should probably factor in the price too (meaning it has to be good enough they'd want to bother to go pick it up..obviously we'll have to find a collector in the region. Which btw is about three hours north of montreal canada....should anyone here be interested...i AM however in Montreal and could likely bring the collection here to accomodate anyone nearer)