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LB Show Recap

RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
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Just got home from the ghost town they call the LB show. Nobody is there. The show was pretty slow for me, but I had two glimmers of hope.

1) My son closed his first deal, taking Cameron Kiefer for $6 for two sample slabs.

2) I may have to move into moderns. Yesterday, someone came to my table asking for me. When I said I was Rick, he said someone had said he would find state quarters "at Rick Kay's table, #651." I laughed, and then I cried.image
Rick Kay
Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    My wife and I enjoyed our little chat at your table. It may have sparked an interest in patterns.
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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    lol, glad the slow show didn't spoil your sense of humor Rick. Look on the good side -- in 10 years Cameron will be worth a fortune and he'll be buying patterns as voraciously as he now buys sample slabs.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    PS: read your thought provoking Numismatist article this morning. You should put a Q in front of your name.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, certainly an honest appraisal of the show.....image If you'd quit dealing in high end beautiful patterns and find me some 1858 cents, you'd have more sales! It's the crappy shows that make you appreciate the great ones all the more. They're coming.......
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    Rick,
    I stopped by the show for a short time late Thursday. I looked for you table but didn't see you.
    Next time!
    Trime
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    His son is really easy to deal with and a great seller. Rick said his son sold more slabs than he did. Next show bring him along and he can make a bundle on samples.image

    Cameron Kiefer
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 17,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "2) I may have to move into moderns. Yesterday, someone came to my table asking for me. When I said I was Rick, he said someone had said he would find state quarters "at Rick Kay's table, #651." I laughed, and then I cried."

    Probably my customer from when I showcased state quarters at your table a few Long Beach shows ago. At this point, consider him your first modern coin customer image

    Wondercoin

    Please visit my website at www.wondercoins.com and my ebay auctions under my user name www.wondercoin.com.
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I'll bet Wondercoin sent the guy over, watch out, Mitch probably has a package deal he wants to sellimage----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 17,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BigE - Nothing wrong with diversification image

    If Rick had a show case full of state quarters, he could educate the masses on why he believes his patterns are more desireable over time (at least he would have an endless run of collectors to talk to!) Then, the guy two tables down can educate the state quarter collector/pattern collector on why the ancients are more desireable than both the patterns and state quarters and on and on and on. image

    Wondercoin
    Please visit my website at www.wondercoins.com and my ebay auctions under my user name www.wondercoin.com.
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    TWQG - Any time you feel like talking about patterns, call or PM.

    Wondercoin - He wasn't my first modern customer, because I had none with me. That's why I cried.

    Shylock- In 10 years, my son will be letting me sit at his table.

    Trime - Hope to see you next time. Sorry I missed you.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Rick: Maybe you should get into sample slabs. Your son could teach you the basics and you don't even have to know how to grade.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    I don't know how to grade now, and I'm doing patterns. A better idea would be for my son to teach me to grade.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rick: You could always move east. Our family would welcome you as we would not know the difference.

    You do better on the east coast anyhow!

    By the way, you were in Long Beach?
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I thought patterns and sample slabs were the same thing----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭
    Yes Rick, move east to Michigan. Open up a shop in Lake Orion. That's just a few miles from me. image
    National Register Of Big Trees

    We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    I've been trying to convince my wife to move the family for years, but no luck.

    Big E - I think more people collect sample slabs.image
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • NewmismatistNewmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭


    << <i>Yes Rick, move east to Michigan. Open up a shop in Lake Orion. That's just a few miles from me. >>


    image

    I'm all for that - I'll come by and BUY patterns as would Boiler & a few others -

    BTW when you were not at your table I sold most of your coins for you - but I had to give all the cash back when I couldn't find the key -

    Oh well, maybe next time

    Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
    Newmismatist
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    Michigan it is. Go Wings!
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Rick,thanks again for signing my copy of your article in the latest 'Numismatist'.Sorry if I made you feel awkwards,I love getting books signed by their authors,or articles in magazines signed by people who write them when I can.Great seeing you again and JBSteven as well.Your son is a very nice young man as well and it was great to meet him as well.
    Friends are Gods way of apologizing for your relatives.
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    Thanks, Paul. It was great seeing you. I am certainly not a numismatic scholar by any stretch of the imagination.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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