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<blockquote data-quote="Dannywhiteley" data-source="post: 492846" data-attributes="member: 6547"><p>I think a lot of the misconceptions about rarity stem from the early collector guides that were nearly all written from a US perspective in the early 90's. It's all we had in the UK so had nothing else to base rarity on pre-internet other than what we were finding in junk shops, carboot sales and friends collections. That wasn't always the best measure so the 'last 17' figures gained mythical status...</p><p></p><p>I remember paying £40 in a junk shop in liverpool for a loose yak in the early 90's, and that really was the pinnacle of my loose pre-internet collecting at the time. In fact it was only beaten a year or two later (post my access to the early internet) with a VC Jawa and Blue Snag finally sourced from the US for closer to £100-200 each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannywhiteley, post: 492846, member: 6547"] I think a lot of the misconceptions about rarity stem from the early collector guides that were nearly all written from a US perspective in the early 90's. It's all we had in the UK so had nothing else to base rarity on pre-internet other than what we were finding in junk shops, carboot sales and friends collections. That wasn't always the best measure so the 'last 17' figures gained mythical status... I remember paying £40 in a junk shop in liverpool for a loose yak in the early 90's, and that really was the pinnacle of my loose pre-internet collecting at the time. In fact it was only beaten a year or two later (post my access to the early internet) with a VC Jawa and Blue Snag finally sourced from the US for closer to £100-200 each. [/QUOTE]
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