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 Posted - September 09 2007 : 12:19:53 PM
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I was looking on the boxes of my locomotive collection and noticed there were original prices on them. Example = Golden Eagle Alco 630 new in 1980 $36.99 COFFRE A. JOUETS STICKER
Lionel Toy warehouse price for this engine $16.99 new
Silver Streak lcoomotive/ Lionel Toy warehouse sticker $12.99 new
Virginian Alco 630 $38.99 (no name on sticker)
Super Spirit of 76 Alco 630 new $19.99 Big Wheel sticker price
Royal Blue smoking loco $ 20.97 Murphys--do not know these stores-(Big Wheel and Murphys) I do know none were in my area (NC) growing up
Chattanooga smoking loco $22.99-- Big Wheel store sticker price-
Anyone else with price information -- Feel Free to post.
Edited by - Brianstyco on September 09 2007 12:31:50 PM
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Posted - September 10 2007 : 10:28:53 AM
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Murphys was a large department store in PA , MD , WV back in the 1940`s through the 1980`s. They were bought out by Ames. They used to have EVERYTHING around xmas. It was a really cool place to shop and its too bad theres no stores like that around anymore. One of the cool things about purchasing stuff is ( as I have said before ) seeing how much it cost back then and where it was purchased. 75% of sellers on eBay always take the price tags off the boxes and it peels some of the paper off the cardboard and leaves a sticky surface for dust to collect. Like the price of what it cost 20 plus years ago matters on todays market? LOL , I mean get real. I have passed on boxed items in the past for this reason.
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Posted - September 15 2007 : 6:41:38 PM
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This is sort of tied into the "sticker pull" that tears up the boxes. I went to a farmer's market in PA this summer and bought a trunk of Tyco stuff that had boxes and had been masking taped shut. I removed the that tape, and I mean a lot of tape, by warming it with a hairdryer. It all pulled off and the acid in the tape had not discolored the boxes where taped.
The find came with an 1980 catalog with prices and I was suprized. 212-01 4-6-2 Penna Pacific $60.00, 224-20 F-9 Conrail $19.00, 250-14 ICGS630 $24.00, E-7 $24.00 212-01, GG1 Black 251-01 $32.50 to mention a few.
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