Just Found a Box of Over 40 Old Red Books At The Dump!!

People do collect those old Redbooks. I have a couple in great comdition

 

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I wish I had a shed like that.

 

It's pretty fun to look through! Last week I found old 1950's-1970's toys, original Beatles records and a 1986 complete working lazer tag game!

 

I have no idea what this ticker it from!

 

That's a matchbook cover, not a ticket, isn't it?

Remember matchbooks?

 

Didn't notice that, opps! I still use matchbooks for lighting candles so I should have known! Considering it says "Close cover before striking" I am surprised I didn't notice that it is one. Never been to a horse race though, and that style of ticket is a little bit before my time anyway so I didn't know exactly what they looked like anyway. Very cool matchbook cover though I think!

 

Cool thread but I tend to think the dump is where most Redbooks belong. They can't report prices accurately and try to create markets rather than report them.

I would be inclined to save anything mint except for mid-'60's and any of the extremely old issues.

Otherwise they're just going to waste space for many decades. Then when they start getting scarce and desirable the acid in the paper will cause it to fall apart.

 

I still have the 1977 edition of the Redbook that I bought when I was a coin crazy kid. It is fun to look and see what I WISH I had purchased back then.

1972 double die unc... $110.00
Uncirculated double eagle... $300.00

Of course back then that may as well have been three million to this poor kid

 

I remember going to a coin show with my grandfather when I was very young. I remember gaping at all the double eagles -- but $60 or $80 was probably two or three weeks' grocery money for the whole family, so that wasn't happening.

 

Cool.