Beautiful and often informative - but ...

Compa

They barely fit in my mailbox and I have no room to store them.

What do you do with your old auction catalogs?

MacCrimmon

Keep some, toss some.

If throwing them away, I would suggest not putting them in your curbside garbage...dump them somewhere anonymous.....the various fast food garbage bins come to mind!!

Ebay is also another outlet for the more prominent sales....just be sure you inform bidders the catalog is shipping media mail, weigh the catalogs first (add 2-3# for shipping boxes) and don't come up short on the estimate or you'll as likely lose money.....

Also, I'd start the lot at $5 - 7, otherwise you're wasting time and effort, IMO.

SYRACUSIAN

Some of them ,very few actually,are invaluable to me. Most get thrown away in recycle bins, I don't even bother to try the ebay route that Mac suggested, although I have bought some rare ones that I needed off ebay. The latest Kuenker catalogue is a keeper, it's in fact #100 and the auction firm managed to have an impressive amount of lots that will make this (Jubilee) sale and catalogue a memorable one.The gold section in particular, is almost better than having a Friedberg, practically every lot is very rare and very expensive.

You can browse the 1000 lots here, it's really impressive with something for everybody's tastes,from the dozen+ 5 guinea pieces or the 1826 proof set, to the gold Goetz pattern.



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farthing

I love catalogues!

Offer them here on the Weekend Swap list - you might be surprised. Certainly better than throwing them away. I actually have more lightside catalogues than darkside, catalogues are a great way to read about coins you cannot afford to collect.

291fifth

Keep the ones that might serve as standard references for a specialty. Pitch the rest...they just take up too much space.

rhound1977

I keep my World Coin Auction Catalogs, but then again I only have four of them.....