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 Posted - July 31 2006 : 10:18:21 PM
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Hi Everyone. There recently was an Auction For a Tyco Dealer Wall Clock on eBay. The auction Closed Yesterday. The Auctioneer Estimated The Value Between $100 to $1,500. It sold for $500. The Description said that it did not run. Wonder what it would have sold for if it was in better condition. Anyway, I thought I would pass along the Info. I have included a link for the auction page.
Talk to you again, Carl VintageHO
[url] [http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/571-ABT-Scarce-Tyco-1950s-Electric-Dealer-Clock_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28235QQihZ020QQitemZ300010010208QQrdZ1#la-image-2/url]
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Edited by - VintageHO on July 31 2006 10:21:15 PM
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Posted - August 01 2006 : 07:39:22 AM
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Saw the clock auction and, given the stated condition, am surprised at the five hundred dollar outcome. Does it indicate some growing respect for Mantua/Tyco in the marketplace or just a fella with an urge to hang one of these (admitted rarities) in his train room?
While any Mantua Tyco dealer display material is pretty thin on the ground some perspective on what $500 will buy you can be attained from the eBay auction of Mantua's Army-Navy E Award plaque in mid-June. This item, inextricably tied with Mantua/Tyco advertising and, arguably, the ultimate one-of-a-kind Mantua icon sold at the final gavel for a mere $356. The auction even included all the all the original awards presentation material from the Feb., 1945 ceremony.
I've heard appraisal values for Lionel's E-award plaque in the tens of thousands of dollars. Mantua's sells for $356 in June while an inoperative dealer clock fetches $500 in July... go figure.
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Posted - September 24 2006 : 9:08:43 PM
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| That's crazy. As an aside, I found an old Tyco Locomotive Display Merchandiser several years ago in an antique store block in Forney, Texas, in great shape and complete (no locos, however) for $50...and sold it on eBay for $300.00. This was before the days of "BuyItNow." It had 32 bids on it. Particle board, lexan and plastic.
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Posted - September 29 2006 : 1:30:36 PM
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oldreliable & co.:
I concur with the "crazy" opinion as far as intrinsic merit goes. I suppose the Mantua E award was just too esoteric and too much a part of the deep dark Mantua past to fetch a sum more in line with what it's rarity merited.
It is, too, a different collecting world out there, with "price guides" and "appraisers" and a generation of potential buyers who wouldn't know a Varney Yellowstone from a Knapp Mountain and couldn't recognize an early Mantua Atlantic if proximal to same.
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