First of all - if this thread is misplaced or breaking any rules I might've missed I do apologize for this. I'm new to this forum and am still trying to get a grip of how things work around here so please bear with me.
Now to the reason for this thread.
I've never been a collector unless it is things I find personal value in. However, because of my strategy to only spend money on magic tricks and supplies a few times every year I've been fortunate enough to get a hold of the following decks:
White Centurions (Gee, I wonder when and where, you might be thinking)
Brown Wynns
Black Ghost First Edition
Gold Arcane in Lucite Case
All of these are unopened and in brand new condition. I understand that these decks apparently are considered rare and valuable, but I am a complete newbie about this so I have no idea about stuff like this. I've searched ebay to try and understand what their value might be but all I've found are auctions nobody has bid on yet so I have no idea if their overpriced or not. Therefore I turn to you guys. What would you say these decks' market values are?
Please note that I am not trying to sell these decks as of right now. I'm merely trying to find out what their worth, which ones I can feel okay with keeping on the shelf, which I might give away as a christmas gift to a magician friend and which of them I might sell in the future. The thing is that since they haven't been given to me as gifts from people I know, I don't feel attached to them and therefore see no personal value in them. (If I were to be given a Black Ghost deck or anything similar from a friend I'd be all "My preciousssss....", trust me.)
Hopefully someone out there can help out with this. (I've tried to search for older threads regarding this but I couldn't find a fitting one so I took a chance and created my own instead.)
Now to the reason for this thread.
I've never been a collector unless it is things I find personal value in. However, because of my strategy to only spend money on magic tricks and supplies a few times every year I've been fortunate enough to get a hold of the following decks:
White Centurions (Gee, I wonder when and where, you might be thinking)
Brown Wynns
Black Ghost First Edition
Gold Arcane in Lucite Case
All of these are unopened and in brand new condition. I understand that these decks apparently are considered rare and valuable, but I am a complete newbie about this so I have no idea about stuff like this. I've searched ebay to try and understand what their value might be but all I've found are auctions nobody has bid on yet so I have no idea if their overpriced or not. Therefore I turn to you guys. What would you say these decks' market values are?
Please note that I am not trying to sell these decks as of right now. I'm merely trying to find out what their worth, which ones I can feel okay with keeping on the shelf, which I might give away as a christmas gift to a magician friend and which of them I might sell in the future. The thing is that since they haven't been given to me as gifts from people I know, I don't feel attached to them and therefore see no personal value in them. (If I were to be given a Black Ghost deck or anything similar from a friend I'd be all "My preciousssss....", trust me.)
Hopefully someone out there can help out with this. (I've tried to search for older threads regarding this but I couldn't find a fitting one so I took a chance and created my own instead.)