BenjiOscar
16-02-2021, 07:51 PM
Hello, just looking for some advice on how to sell a programme collection after many years of collecting. I’m not sure whether to sell the collection as a whole or programmes individually so any hints or tips would be really appreciated.
I’ve got a complete* collection of Hibs home programmes from 1960-2015 (when I basically stopped collecting apart from the odd item) plus lots of home friendlies and various other home matches from 1950-1960.
I’ve got hundreds of away programmes going back to then as well covering league, cup, friendlies, European matches etc.
I’ve a complete collection of Scottish Cup Finals and Semi Finals from 1958 to date and the Scottish League Cup Finals and Semi Finals from 2019 back to 1960. There must be around 400 programmes covering these two competitions.
Hundreds of Scotland programmes home and away going back to the late 1940s. European finals going back to the 60s plus semi finals and earlier rounds.
Add in all the other non Hibs programmes from across the years then I reckon there are around 5,000 programmes all told.
Finding someone with cash who wants to buy a ready made collection is highly unlikely so options appear to be selling via a dealer (and a lot of the collection was bought from Brian Johnson in the first place) or a piecemeal sale of individual items or small batches. Problem with the latter is that it means breaking up complete seasons but again how much of an issue is that? Anyone got any experience of selling a collection and if so what approach was most successful.
I’m in no rush to sell and know that this may not be the best time with a lot less people having disposable income to spend.
My girls have no interest in the collection and as mentioned I’ve pretty much stopped adding to the collection so it just sits in storage boxes.
*This doesn’t include all of the postponed match programmes, e.g, I don’t have the Barcelona postponed programme from December 1960 and another half a dozen or so but I do have some postponed issues.
I’ve got a complete* collection of Hibs home programmes from 1960-2015 (when I basically stopped collecting apart from the odd item) plus lots of home friendlies and various other home matches from 1950-1960.
I’ve got hundreds of away programmes going back to then as well covering league, cup, friendlies, European matches etc.
I’ve a complete collection of Scottish Cup Finals and Semi Finals from 1958 to date and the Scottish League Cup Finals and Semi Finals from 2019 back to 1960. There must be around 400 programmes covering these two competitions.
Hundreds of Scotland programmes home and away going back to the late 1940s. European finals going back to the 60s plus semi finals and earlier rounds.
Add in all the other non Hibs programmes from across the years then I reckon there are around 5,000 programmes all told.
Finding someone with cash who wants to buy a ready made collection is highly unlikely so options appear to be selling via a dealer (and a lot of the collection was bought from Brian Johnson in the first place) or a piecemeal sale of individual items or small batches. Problem with the latter is that it means breaking up complete seasons but again how much of an issue is that? Anyone got any experience of selling a collection and if so what approach was most successful.
I’m in no rush to sell and know that this may not be the best time with a lot less people having disposable income to spend.
My girls have no interest in the collection and as mentioned I’ve pretty much stopped adding to the collection so it just sits in storage boxes.
*This doesn’t include all of the postponed match programmes, e.g, I don’t have the Barcelona postponed programme from December 1960 and another half a dozen or so but I do have some postponed issues.