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Peter Waller

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Peter I may have asked this before but how many Anglers Mails annuals where published?

I don't mean how many in total just how many years did it run.

Thanks.

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Hi Ferret, Spindle is probably right. I know its been discussed before and someone did come out with a definative answer. A spot of archive trawling is in the offing.

 

They are fun to read, see how so and so famous angler looked, or how little we have progressed.

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Spindle is right about the years. They aren't as collectable as the Angling Times ones, three of which I'm currently reading. However as Peter points out they do make interesting reading, and there's also a few good tips within the pages.

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The going rate for individual copies from a dealer is around £3 depending on condition. A complete set would perhaps be worth a little more, but only to someone who didn't have any of them at all. However most people just buy the years they haven't already got.

 

If you're selling to a dealer you could typically expect half these values, but many specialist dealers wouldn't be interested I'm afraid. The best bet would be to do what Peter's doing and put them up for auction.

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  • 18 years later...

I see that on E-bay £3 to £4 still appears to be the going rate for single copies so after 9 years old AM annuals are proving to be less than good investments! Indeed I have just bought a full set plus three duplicates off E-bay, all in really excellent condition, for a mere £20.00, somewhat surprisingly. Although I rate the first few Angling Times annuals my taste was always for Anglers Mail. Perhaps it was more of an angler's read than AT. Anyway, in my nostalgic dotage, I'm rather pleased with my purchase, like meeting up with old friends after a few years. Perhaps us Crabtree Kids are inevitably hanging up our rods for the last time thus the interest in that era is literally dying off, sadly.

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I think in many peoples mindset especially amongst books old = high prices ,ofcourse rarety and condition is the factor .I have seen dusty warped coverless books in charity shops going for huge prices on checking them against ebay sold listings for the reason they are old so they must be valuable!

Old bastards like us dont help i dont know about you but the older i get the more i need my past ,got almost over it now but had a few years buying for what were silly prices things (and they are just things) i couldnt have in the past mostly because they were beyond pocket money prices or in my 20 supporting a wife and kids. My loft is full of it and hopefully when i croak its the kids inheritance and they get at least what i paid for it lol

When i started collecting intrepids they were dirt cheap but now there more collectors the rarer ones go for silly money far above the worth of a second rate reel should be its all those other old bastards a generation later getting their collection of old things !

As for the books you mentioned i have a few in a tin box in the loft but like the other 100 or more i wouldnt read them they were bought cheap in the hope they could be sold on ,a few were most were not and i hate chuckings things in the skip

I read my last book decades ago but do people read them anymore in the numbers to cause scarecity and thus price rises? Kindles etc are what people use today and i have no doubt in 10 years magazines will be gone they are readily available online now and old fogies that insist owning something tangible is better are fast dying out!

PS its worse than you think 2003 was 18 years ago !

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12 hours ago, chesters1 said:

PS its worse than you think 2003 was 18 years ago !

A crap investment then! Re Intrepids, I recently inherited a box load of the things, most in good order and complete with their clamshell boxes. In recent years I suspect that I would have sold them for rather more than I did. Seems that what is collectable now is 70's carp tackle and that as far as Intrpid is concerned I have obviously missed the boat. Judging by the turnout at my local carboot sales people have turned their back on junk and stuff.

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