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Hi Gary
the way of the heart is always preferable, isn’t it? My collection will go to my daughters when the time’s there.
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Thank you for your answers, TGM and Charlie. I have a major problem with selling. I just don’t like doing it. Right now, I’m leaving my collection to a 2nd cousin. I have some step children but they are not interested.
I just checked out the Tieste site. Far superior to the Mehl/Grabowski catalog.
Vicken – I will look into this when things are a bit quieter at this end. If you find a good source, you might not want to share that with everyone + and I have to say this, I want people to buy their notgeld from my shop!! If we did it amongst ourselves – that would be a good thing I think. What does anyone think?
Tieste’s site (http://www.tieste.de) is a good indication of a price you can expect to pay for a note…..if he is selling it and it is listed in his different categories. I have known Reinhard for nearly 30 years and visited him at his home once. MA-Shops is another very good source……..but like anything, can seem expensive if you are buying just 1 note and the postage is the same amount as the note you are buying! You will get to know sellers over time and little things like the way they package notes up………..might amaze you……..in a bad way! eBay – just be careful.
I too would be interested in other sites for notgeld. One I know is tieste.de, he’s pretty good.
Tony… this may not be immediately feasible, but can we have a buy/sell/trade area on this forum please?
Hi Gary,
I’ve been on the collecting-front for about 2 1/2 years now , and a GNCC member for, give or take some months, 1 1/2 yrs.
Having lived in structural poverty for years, I built up a small-time stamp-collection with the middle-ages as central theme. Stamps being rather small, I started complementing them with postcards and some notgeld, and yes, I got hooked ! Especially when I found the products of Louis Koch, Halberstadt. What made them attractive to me was the nice artwork, done by a comprehensive number of artists, so very recognizable most of the time. You’ll find a complete illustrated listing of Koch-notes elsewhere on this site.
An anorexic wallet and curiosity caused me to search the web for Koch-notes fairly singlemindedly, and then comparing the offers until I was sure to have the cheapest of (momentary) all.
Although 98% of all trades went perfectly straight, I also met some less agreable denizens of the web…
My suggestions to you are: 1. You could become a source yourself, selling the doubles for a soft price might help a lot of beginners lay a foundation for a nice collection. 2. Choose one theme at a time and search and compare, by doing so you’ll learn to compare and memorize. I also make intense use of Google Maps, Wikipedia and a lot of atlasses. 3. Keep file of, and watch the sites you find, like auctioneers, there are many more than Catawili alone.
I won’t show you “the rear of my tongue” (as the Dutch say), discoverinf and finding out (for) yourself seems much more fun to me, but if you’re left with any questions or remarks. I’d be happy to share what I know !!
And, last but not least: Tony created one hell of a nice collectors-club !!
Cordially, Charles
Hi Gary!
Thanks for your first post.may there be many more in the future.
Best source is my shop, but I would say that wouldn’t I!! They do tend to be slightly better or scarcer pieces, but there are ‘common’ pieces for sale too.
EBay can be good sometimes but I have definitely been burnt a few times now, so you do have to be careful. Poor descriptions, ‘too good to be true’ prices…..and then with a big problem when the pieces arrive…… etc etc. You tend to find the sellers you can trust. You don’t have to be too concerned about fakes with notgeld…….except maybe the scarcer types very, very occasionally something just looks wrong to me. Any questions with anything like that, I’m sure someone on this specialised forum can help
Hello all: I’m basically a new collector. I started collecting a bit less than a year ago. Somehow, browsing Ebay, I came across a photo of a Notgeld, looked interesting, so I ordered it. Then, looking further on Ebay I saw a lot of other Notgeld, also interesting looking, so I bought some of it.
That started my collection. Since then, I learned that it’s far more cost efficient to buy Notgeld in groupings, lots, or albums. So, I check Ebay occasionally to see if any Notgeld albums are available, and if so, I either order or bid on them. One problem with this is that I purchased several groupings of Notgeld from someone in … Korea, I think. There were about a thousand Notgeld in all, but many of them were in terrible condition, folded, marks from rusted paper clips, and worst of all, worm eaten edges.
I’ve also bid for and won a number of collections, mostly in albums, from a Dutch auction site called Catawiki. The result is that I must have 10 to 20 thousand pieces now, many doubles, and mostly cheapies. Also, some Austrian Notgeld and some Verkehrausgaben, most of which are not too interesting for me. I’m also sitting with about 12 albums that I haven’t gone through yet.
From about last April on, Notgeld collecting was my primary activity. My two other activities, collecting Silver Strikes and playing computer games took a back seat. The Notgeld finally started coming out of my ears, so I’m taking a several week hiatus before getting back to it.
When I’ve gone through the remaining albums I’ll finally be in a position to collect more selectively. Then I’ll go through my collections, see what’s missing, and act accordingly.
The only collecting help I’ve had is from this website. Being new to the hobby, I’ve made lots of mistakes, but then it’s a learning process, I suppose.
So, my question to you all is: What are your sources for obtaining Notgeld? Which are good ones, which bad ones? Have you been burned sometimes?
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