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Post by Craignor on Aug 15, 2020 0:12:06 GMT
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Post by Adam on Aug 15, 2020 1:04:48 GMT
Wow, a cardboard box for $2K! Yep, a bargain! Nerve of some people!
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Post by Craignor on Aug 15, 2020 2:29:32 GMT
Wow, a cardboard box for $2K! Yep, a bargain! Nerve of some people! P.T. Barnum would be proud. 
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Post by Country Joe on Aug 17, 2020 11:42:18 GMT
I wonder if someone will be dumb enough to buy it?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 13:37:16 GMT
What!?! You think that is to much? It's a Lionel! An original at that! Very rare, scarce, in high demand....................... I enjoy perusing eBay for the entertainment value. There are some real cool items out there that are very reasonably priced. Many, very nice to do business with, individuals on the Bay. But you cannot escape those that just make you go, what? $2000 for a box. My original instruction booklet for Flying Yankee, even though it is a little dog eared and yellowed, should fetch $3000. Unlike the box that only stores the train, this tells you how to operate the train and all of its bells and whistles that were included on a train from approximately mid 30’s to the early 40’s. It makes for a very intense read, you know.
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Post by thebigcrabcake on Aug 18, 2020 22:34:01 GMT
I'll take two!
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Post by Adam on Aug 18, 2020 22:52:42 GMT
Emile, I can sell you cardboard boxes for half that price. It’s just the kind of guy I am! LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 2:15:16 GMT
We prewar tinplate collectors love our original boxes almost as much as we love the trains and accessories that go inside them.
Back in the mid 70s, my Dad bought a pristine, all-original Lionel 840 power station from Al Levin, TCA president. As he was packing it up to take it home, Al asked him if he wanted the original box. Dad said, "Of course I do. What in the world will you do with an empty original box?" Al replied saying, "I'll take it to a meet and sell it for $100.00. How many of these boxes have you ever seen?"
Original boxes are definitely a bonus when I buy trains, especially prewar. However, there's no way I'd give that much for just a box.
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Post by eddieg on Oct 7, 2020 1:49:49 GMT
Sometimes the box is worth more than the train that goes in it.
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Post by Craignor on Oct 7, 2020 1:58:48 GMT
If you could go back in time in time and visit a Lionel dealer and tell him in 80 year that box will be worth $2000, they would cart you off to the nut house.  |
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 12, 2020 13:05:19 GMT
My wife and my kids already drove me to the nut house. I think this is why all of use are engrained to SAVE THE BOX ! |
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