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Ballpark Value of Silent Movie Rolls
By Rick Inzero

On the ebay WWW auction site, I noticed 22 piano rolls up for sale,
lot 29413686.  They were Picturoll rolls intended to be used to
accompany silent movies.  Now that bidding's closed, I see something
really weird...  the bids made a quantum leap.  3 people bid under
$100 for the lot, then the top two each bid OVER $700!!!  So these
rolls sold for roughly $33+ dollars per roll!

This is probably a rhetorical question, but is $30+ a typical value of
such movie music rolls or did each of these 2 people just really, really
want them for some reason?

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Rick Inzero, Rochester, NY, rdi@cci.com.geentroep


(Message sent Thu 17 Sep 1998, 15:47:40 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Ballpark, Movie, Rolls, Silent, Value

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