I have a box load dating back to March 1950, any value or shall haul them to the goodwill store? Tony
Depends if someone who wants them lives close enough. I’ve seen them selling up to $5 a copy, many vendors selling them for $1-$0.50 each at train shows, and other people who have them are trashing them so ??? Shipping would probably be a killer. I would love to have them, but I am guessing we aren’t even close. Is there a Craig’s List for your area? That is a great way to sell them for a small amount and have someone come by and pick them up because shipping is taken out of the equation. Otherwise look around and see if there is a model railroad club, museum, or Youth In Model Railroading Division that they could be donated to. A club here in Denver gets magazines in bulk like that and uses them as fund raisers. The YIMR gets them out to the kids to inspire them on what can be done. I’m afraid Goodwill wouldn’t deal with them just straight to trash. They seem to only deal with “poplular” magazines and things like National Geographic
thanks for the prompt reply, I started to read them and found them great They aren’t going anywhere till they are all read!!
My general sense is that older magazines, 1940s to 1960s, sell best if sold packaged by volume/year.
Old magazine prices seem to have a sort of bell shaped curve. Issues just a few years old get almost given away, and I have seen 2000-2005 issues selling for fifty cents or a dollar each. Then a spike in value for the 1970s to the late 1950s. Then the value seems to go down again. So age does not seem to be the determining factor. For Trains magazines however it does seem older issues have greater value perhaps because the entire contents retains its relevance.
Oddly enough sometimes I think smell is the controlling factor. It seems rare to encounter 1950s magazines that do not have that basement/musty smell.
Dave Nelson