THE CARDS ARE OUT THERE
EVENTS
Events announced between Newsletters will be posted in the News section of www.aviapc.com as will the corrections that usually seem necessary for this section.
| 2003 | |
| Mar 16 | East Midlands at the Airport |
| Mar 23 | Bristol BAWA Centre Filton |
| Mar 29 | Stuttgart Musberg Village 10.00 |
| Apr 13 | Gatwick Crawley Leisure Centre 10.00 |
| Apr 27 | Heathrow Airport Visitor Centre |
| May 10 | Feltham Community College 11.00 |
| May 24 | Paris. Holiday Inn - Roissy |
| May 24 | Vienna Airport T2 9.30 |
| Jun 14 | Newark UK Aerojumble |
| July 5 | Frankfurt Summer Show, Schwanheim Village 9.00 |
| July 10/12 | Airliners International 2002 Columbus Ohio |
| Aug 17 | Redhill - Fly-in and collectors fair |
| Sep 6 | Birmingham Motor Cycle Museum |
| Oct 4 | Luton, Vauxhall Recreation Club 11.00 |
| Oct 19 | Manchester Airport T2 |
| Nov 1/2 | Frankfurt, Schwanheim |
Member
Conway Longworth-Dames has lists of cards from the 1930s/50s for disposal, which
can be obtained by sending 2 27p stamps to him at the address given in his CH
Price article.
Some
time back we featured 3D cards. After a long interval a new German
publisher of these has appeared and cards can be purchased on-line at
www.3d.de. Subjects include reprints of
old Zeppelin cards, the current Zeppelin NT airship and views of Friedrichshafen
airport. The cards are of the variety that need to be viewed through coloured
glasses and these come inside the plastic wrapper with the card.
Lastly, publisher FISA has
re-entered the UK card market with some oversize cards of British Airways types
with 747-400 and 777 known and John Hinde has a set of
at least 9 landing shots of UK airliners – normal continental size.
A
bit like with the stock market, people who bought cards a few years back must be
wishing they had held off. With supplies
of many US airline cards now clearly exceeding demand, prices that looked cheap
then now look quite expensive. A few examples – Mohawk BAC-111 (catalogue
A500) was $15 now nearer $5, ditto for
Panagra issue DC-6 cards. There is
however some signs that these lower prices do result in sales – maybe to
collectors expanding into hither to too-expensive
Areas – or maybe dealers hoping to resell who have not quite got the
message!
Conversely
the really rare stuff continues to attract megabucks. A popular area not featured before is Japanese airports from the
50s – possibly partly a nostalgia effect from the many US forces personnel
stationed there at the time.
The
collection of four such illustrated raised over $190 ( = £110).
Pioneer
cards do not feature greatly in numbers but many of those that do attract
serious money, especially if autographed However,
at press time the Belgian seller of this signed card of Hubert Latham had
achieved no takers for his minimum bid price of $160(=£96)
