I've been buying them, when I found ones I liked, and the price was reasonable. I prefer unframed plates, and pay btn $8-$15, depending on the quality. For some reason if someone frames them, they feel it's reasonable to charge $60. Sheesh. Ones with brighter colors, or unfaded ones, are preferable. I have bought complete magazines, again about $10-$15. In fact, that would be preferable if the plate was still intact, since that's my primary focus. I love ones that have patterns in them especially. I can't usually buy an entire year because of the cost. So if he wants to sell them quicker, I'd sell them as individual issues. *RA-forgot to answer this, no, I wouldn't buy any that are laminated. I wouldn't buy a torn one that affected the picture but have bought ones that had slight tears on the edges. Since I'm not collecting for resale, the condition of the cover of the magazine isn't as important.
At book fairs, I've seen nice, large (i.e. greater than 8.5" x 11") plates in good condition selling for $20-30 apiece, and I've seen smaller ones for $8-10 apiece on ebay, but then you have to pay shipping.
A lot of what's in the box that I have is in pretty crappy condition, but there are a few gems (like, from the 1840s). Anything that I don't buy for myself, I'll definitely be posting to LJ once it's up for sale.
I would hate for plates to be removed from their magazine!! Please try to dissuade him from doing that!!!! Obviously if they have already been removed, nothing can be done, but if any are still intact they would be worth a hell of a lot more to me! (I'm in the UK and can't find ladies magazines anywhere, so no help on prices)
Oh, I agree with you whole-heartedly! I think that it's frowned upon even in the book trade (i.e. not just libraries) to break up issues. In the box of stuff that I have, it's an assortment of complete issues and plates that have already been removed.
My reason for asking whether people are more interested in the plates or the complete issues is to get some idea of how much demand there is if I were to keep doing this kind of thing in the future.
Personally, I prefer to get complete issues, and have paid $100-150 for a full year's run of a ladies' magazine from the 1870s, in very good condition. That was a few years ago though, and I'm not sure what the market is doing now, or even whether that was a good deal at the time; it was simply what I could afford, and what was available.
I prefer to buy the whole bound issue or the full year complete with plates if possible. A single fashion plate is beautiful but the description of the plate is in the text of the publication. For my research I want it complete.
Price depends greatly on condition and rarity of the publication itself. The plates alone are common and about $10-40 each (I don't pay more then $10 usually. The $40 is for the larger sized, beautiful and rare).
I'm relieved to hear that so many people prefer the complete issues to detached plates, since the plates are what I see most often at book fairs and the like. In addition to the description of the plate, I love to try out the recipes, crochet patterns, and all the other household goodies that get lost when all you have is the pretty picture.
Yes! Although I invariably end up trying to figure out where I could squeeze in an extra couple of bathrooms to make them more livable by today's standards, or how I could enlarge the kitchen...
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I prefer unframed plates, and pay btn $8-$15, depending on the quality. For some reason if someone frames them, they feel it's reasonable to charge $60. Sheesh. Ones with brighter colors, or unfaded ones, are preferable.
I have bought complete magazines, again about $10-$15. In fact, that would be preferable if the plate was still intact, since that's my primary focus. I love ones that have patterns in them especially.
I can't usually buy an entire year because of the cost. So if he wants to sell them quicker, I'd sell them as individual issues.
*RA-forgot to answer this, no, I wouldn't buy any that are laminated. I wouldn't buy a torn one that affected the picture but have bought ones that had slight tears on the edges. Since I'm not collecting for resale, the condition of the cover of the magazine isn't as important.
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At book fairs, I've seen nice, large (i.e. greater than 8.5" x 11") plates in good condition selling for $20-30 apiece, and I've seen smaller ones for $8-10 apiece on ebay, but then you have to pay shipping.
A lot of what's in the box that I have is in pretty crappy condition, but there are a few gems (like, from the 1840s). Anything that I don't buy for myself, I'll definitely be posting to LJ once it's up for sale.
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My reason for asking whether people are more interested in the plates or the complete issues is to get some idea of how much demand there is if I were to keep doing this kind of thing in the future.
Personally, I prefer to get complete issues, and have paid $100-150 for a full year's run of a ladies' magazine from the 1870s, in very good condition. That was a few years ago though, and I'm not sure what the market is doing now, or even whether that was a good deal at the time; it was simply what I could afford, and what was available.
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Price depends greatly on condition and rarity of the publication itself. The plates alone are common and about $10-40 each (I don't pay more then $10 usually. The $40 is for the larger sized, beautiful and rare).
I have a pretty big collection if you ever want my advice on specifics.
Here is my (Really far from complete and not recently updated) reference library page:
http://www.laracorsets.com/Fashion_History_Research_Library.htm
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I'm relieved to hear that so many people prefer the complete issues to detached plates, since the plates are what I see most often at book fairs and the like. In addition to the description of the plate, I love to try out the recipes, crochet patterns, and all the other household goodies that get lost when all you have is the pretty picture.
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