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Thread ID: 135156	2013-10-01 23:09:00	An unexpected find - but what value?	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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1354796	2013-10-01 23:09:00	Hi Team I was looking for something to juice-up an antique auction on TM that was not generating much interest, and I remembered that I had a tin trunk full of old newspapers (that I thought were from the WWII years) so I went out to see if I had one suitable to go with the auction . I assumed that the contents would be papers documenting signicant events during WWII, as collected by my Mother while my Father was serving overseas . Well, the trunk contained old newpapers as expected, but to my surprise, I found that they date back to the 1930's and possibly earlier when I get to the bottom . The few that I looked at all seemed to be commemorative of some significant event . A photo of one of the more striking examples (dated 1930) is attached . Singly, or as a collection, they may have some value, but that is not the issue, I don't want to leave them there any longer as they would be better preserved in the hands of collectors or possibly historians, though I think that by now the latter would have access to digitised archives of the same papers . Does anybody have an informed idea of what value might be placed on such items, singly or collectively? There could be a 30-40 or more papers there, plus some duplicates as for the example attached, which has a second copy is similar condition . Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1354797	2013-10-01 23:27:00	Its worth whatever someone will pay. Doesn't help I know but with something like that its the best answer.	DeSade (984)
1354798	2013-10-02 00:29:00	No idea what that's worth sorry, but very cool nonetheless!!	Chilling_Silence (9)
1354799	2013-10-02 01:26:00	The Auckland star has already been digitized back to 1870. You may consider laminating, framing and mounting special pages, to hang on a wall. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz	kingdragonfly (309)
1354800	2013-10-02 02:23:00	Zeppelins over Auckland?	Whenu (9358)
1354801	2013-10-03 02:46:00	The Auckland star has already been digitized back to 1870. That I know, but as we are all no doubt aware, some people prefer to have the real thing. I for one would not waste my time reading a digital book online, nor would I buy a Kindle or any other reader. No way can you scan through a digitised newspaper as quickly as you can on paper, nor can you reference back in an E-Book as easily as you can with the traditional version. On looking deeper into the cache, I am now back to 1907 for some papers, I have also found a genuine original wartime Minhinnick cartoon signed by the artist, and I've barely scratched the surface. Naturally Mrs T has nabbed the colour supplements for the wedding of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to King George V, and has dibs on any other special royalty editions. I was surprised to see so much colour printing so many years ago too, and to have such a wide span of time covered. Some of the real oldies have done service as underfelt for 'parlour' carpets so the top pages are slightly dimpled but still in excellent condition and fully readable, parlours being used only on special occasions in those days. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1354802	2013-10-03 02:58:00	[QUOTE=Billy T;1177582]That I know, but as we are all no doubt aware, some people prefer to have the real thing. I for one would not waste my time reading a digital book online, nor would I buy a Kindle or any other reader. No way can you scan through a digitised newspaper as quickly as you can on paper, nor can you reference back in an E-Book as easily as you can with the traditional version. I agree with you totally about reading on-line and your comment about newspapers. But I will never now be without my Kindle. It is the best thing since the proverbial sliced bread, especially when I can buy books for as little as 99c. Even best-sellers are a fraction of the bookstore price. There are so many advantages to e-readers and e-books, that I am sure permanent damage will be done to paper publishing, which is a pity, but the cost and convenience will win out.	Richard (739)
1354803	2013-10-03 06:36:00	[QUOTE=Billy T;1177582]That I know, but as we are all no doubt aware, some people prefer to have the real thing. I for one would not waste my time reading a digital book online, nor would I buy a Kindle or any other reader. No way can you scan through a digitised newspaper as quickly as you can on paper, nor can you reference back in an E-Book as easily as you can with the traditional version. I agree with you totally about reading on-line and your comment about newspapers. But I will never now be without my Kindle. It is the best thing since the proverbial sliced bread, especially when I can buy books for as little as 99c. Even best-sellers are a fraction of the bookstore price. There are so many advantages to e-readers and e-books, that I am sure permanent damage will be done to paper publishing, which is a pity, but the cost and convenience will win out. I can read them for $2 from the library, I just request they buy them in (the ones I want to read). I feel its doing the other library users a favour as they can then read them too. So much nicer to read a book than a glorified tablet, a book never goes flat and you can dry it out again if the steam in the bath makes it damp	gary67 (56)
1354804	2013-10-03 21:43:00	I never understood reading in the bath, seems like a bad Idea to me . I understand some people will always prefer paper but I'm a kindle/tablet convert as well . You just can't beat the convenience and capacity and for me I like not having to deal with my always overflowing bookshelf issue any more - well except after cleaning it out earlier this year a friend gave me two boxes of books and now it's overflowing again . I've had my kindle about a year and I have only got 8 books on it so far but it's not gotten any larger or heavier as I add books to it :) Also I love how it syncs across devices . I start reading a book at home on the kindle, then find myself with some time to kill at work on my lunch break and I can continue on my smartphone and it knows where I'm up to - genius . Lately I've been using my nexus 7 more than the kindle because it's a little easier to navigate on . Old newspapers though, seems like an authentic piece of history and kinda cool to have . I could see how it might have some value to someone . I guess though that these were mass produced and are very cheap to produce so it might be surprising to see how common they still are, value seems to increase with rarity whether or not an item is actually "worth" what people pay for it . One thing I never understood is people paying huge money for old comics, I'd be just as happy with a cheap reprint myself and you know the publishers can still produce new ones whenever they want so I fail to see the value in a printed piece of paper just because it's older than a modern reprint . Still people are entitled to waste their money however they want to .	dugimodo (138)
1354805	2013-10-03 21:56:00	Nothing matches the feel and character of a real book, something that electronic delivery will never match. There is also a certain cachet to having and holding historical items, and that is what keeps the antique and collectable market thriving. There is no knowing what may attract the eye of some person out there, be it associated with a family member's birth date or whatever, and I have run TM searches for months and years to finally find an elusive item that either I or Mrs T have been looking for. Sadly I cannot sell the extensive royal family archive from this collection to the best customer I know, because she lives here and has claimed them all as of right. i.e. She just said Right! I'm having all of those, gimme!" I do not expect that there will be any great value in these papers, but it would be nice to liberate them to fresh fields after more than 100 years (in some instances), and somebody out there might like to know what was happening in the world on the day great (or great great) grandma or grandad was born or married etc, and hold the news of that day in their hands. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
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