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Is this a record? (catalogue price)
I don't usually bother with featuring ebay items on the forum, but this one had me well and truly gobsmacked!



Obviously, the price will reflect the value of the less common or rarer RE items, but how high would you be prepared to go?



Myself, I did upset my budget buying "A proud war record", but I just love the book, from it's pressed embossed brass motif on the cover, to the unique insight into what the company did for the war effort. (this is available to download from Scaly's RE stuff) and is now a 6.4 Mb good quality file.


However, we are talking a normal type 12 page catalogue, similar to the 1938 and 1939 ones, but this was apparently a 1940 version with different cover artwork and 'War time list" on the cover. A nice catalogue and not often seen, but how badly might you want it and how much would you be prepared to pay for this 12 page brochure?






ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES WAR TIME LIST CIRCA 1940 BROCHURE.
12 pages including covers, General specification 1940 Royal Enfield Motor Cycles (except the 125 c.c. Model R.E. Models shown inside, Model RE 125 c.c. two stroke, Model D 248c.c. side valve, model SF 248 c.c. sports O.H.V. Model CM "light 350" O.H.V. Model L 570 c.c. side valve de luxe, Model J as model L, with 499 c.c. single port O.H.V. engine, Model G "350 Bullet" Model J2 "500 Bullet", some rusting to staples, split 1.5 cm approx to bottom of spine, plus split 1 cm approx to top of spline, plus bumps & creases to sides, corners & spine, plus overall creases, scuffing, scratches, & other ageing marks, penciled 1940 to top right corner front cover, COVERS FAIR, INSIDE GOOD CONDITION, Item size, 19 x 13 cm approx.



OUCH !!!Well, each to their own, but I was truly gobsmacked! I wonder if we will get to see a scan of it?



















REOC 15084

Tabellarius de verbis. Ostensor gaudium

[papasmurf]

I learned a long time ago some old paperwork, booklets, can in some cases be worth silly money.
(Some years ago I got over a £1000 for a tin full of cigarette cards.)

[vince]

Perhaps its because the 1940 models were never made as factory went to war production, hence a rare book?
but silly money none the less.
A bit like a copy of blueun or green un from the same period that has on the cover new 350 triumph twin but nothing inside (removed by censor) but a few copies with details slipped through.

There is a catalogue on ebay at the moment I'm after but the P&P is three times the purchase price.
Vince

[nigelphoto]

What goes up can also come down! Spill some coffee on it and its worthless . . . When I retired from teaching Photography at an FE College in 2005 I was given a Leica 1g as a leaving present - I sold it for £1200 to a dealer. I notice nowadays they fetch half that if you're lucky.

[Rattlebattle]

All down to current supply and demand. I have a comic that cost me 25p at a Pink Floyd concert in the seventies. My wife and I found it while having a sort out and had forgotten all about it. They fetch £85 on eBay now, apparently...I wonder how much my 1965 Royal Enfield brochure is worth... Not really, I've had it nearly 50 years.

[Scalyback]

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Pink floyd comic?

From memory, "Mugga booga! Trip out beyond 3rd bardo!" (back page)

[Scalyback]

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Rattlebattle, you was ripped off, they were 15p.


Had a few of those. My brother works for them.

[Rattlebattle]

Yes, something like that. I believe it was the first time Gerald (?) Scarfe worked with them. Pretentious tosh really, but I still like their music. 25p was the cover price, probably what I paid at (I think) the Dark Side of the Moon tour. I also saw them do the Animals one. Happy days. Never saw them live doing the earlier Sid Barrett stuff though, sadly. Do you think I could get my 10p from your brother?

[Rattlebattle]

Actually, maybe it was 15p. I don't have it to hand as a house move is imminent (and has been for the last n months.....)

[Scalyback]

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