Thats right Ed, Dont you remember at the Salem show a few years back a nice Vic 4 sold for $4200. now they are bringing maybe $3200. Same with Vic 5, they were really hot before the repro horns usually selling in the 4 to 5000 range, now they are all over ebay for $3200 to $3500. At the Caps show there was a first class Vic 5 with a killer original Spearpoint, he was firm at $3800. and it did not sell. ----- Original Message ----- From: <KEEPERH2O at aol.com> To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Wood Horns - Loss of Value? > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 10:01:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, > cenfin at comcast.net writes: > > I may be wrong but Vic 3s Vic4s and Vic 5's with > Wood horns are worth at least $1000. Less today than they were 5 years > ago. > > > Wow, Al, is that for real? Are you saying the horns are worth $1000 now > or > the phonos with the horns? (Can't be). > > I sold my Vic IV with mahogany spearpoint horn about 5 years ago for > $3200. > I understood at the time the horn was worth about $1500. Would that make > it > worth only $750 now? How much do these excellent repros go for? > > It's hard to imagine collectors would devalue the originals that much. > In > other hobby disciplines this devaluation effect you point out does not > seem to > have had the same effect. There are many excellent reproduction > Springfield > percussion cap rifled muskets available tody, for example, but they have > not > affected the value of one that has seen the Civil War at all. Nor have > "kit > cars" devalued a genuine 1930s Chord automobile. Why then, would a > serious > collector of antique phonographs not prefer a fine original horn over a > fine > reproduction as long as he could afford it? > > : ) > > Edward, in Zigzag > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.19/955 - Release Date: 8/15/2007 > 4:55 PM >