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Frequency of the more
common Balloon and Airship Stereocards on Ebay
A great many cards change
hands on Ebay, so their value and scarcity can be assessed objectively. Many
balloon and airship views come up too infrequently for scarcity statistics to be significant. Some
however are very common. Selected Balloon/Airship stereocards which have
appeared more than twelve times are in the table
below. Each Entry has Number Sold (n) and Average price ($)
I have price
information for all LTA stereocards traded on Ebay since January 2000. Email me
if you need to know.
2007 Comment (January 2008): The mid-range cards have fallen in price. The
truly rare end of the market (not in this table) remains firm. The most common
cards are steady simply because sellers understandably do not sell at a very low
prices - a lot of these go unsold. There are bargains to be had. Someone had a
bargain from me (a scarce Troutman card - sold for the opening bid)
Cards where sellers do not accept non-US bids DO REALISE A
LOWER PRICE.
(One seller in 2007 refused my 'forrin' bid, and sold his scarce card for about
1/10 of the price it should have gone for.
My loss as well as his!!)
All the more common
cards were published by Keystone (although some started life as U&U images).
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Calendar Year-> |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005
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2006
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2007
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Comment
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| Keystone 18632 Zeppelin
wrecked and burned. |
n
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60
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51 |
45 |
36 |
31 |
23 |
33 |
11 |
The most common LTA card. Consistently! |
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$ |
$6.91 |
$6.28 |
$6.87 |
$5.30 |
$6.15 |
$4.68 |
$5.5 |
$8.81 |
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Keystone 18000 Zeppelin
flying over German Town
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n |
42 |
33 |
38
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26 |
21 |
31 |
21 |
20 |
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| $ |
$5.55 |
$7.86 |
$7.87
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$5.51 |
$7.65 |
$6.47 |
$6.6 |
$6.4 |
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| Keystone V19216 R34 at
Mineola |
n |
21 |
22 |
30 |
31 |
27 |
39 |
21 |
35 |
Best of the common cards. |
| $ |
$11.81 |
$10.58 |
$9.98 |
$8.11 |
$7.54 |
$7.91 |
$8.3 |
$8.6 |
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| Keystone 32777 The Graf
Zeppelin (in Hangar at Lakehurst) |
n |
22 |
15 |
19 |
21 |
20 |
15 |
13 |
8 |
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| $ |
26.9 |
$23.19 |
$21.1 |
$20.00 |
$13.47 |
$15.60 |
$16.29 |
$15.66 |
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| Keystone 18758 Hauling
Down French Observation |
n |
21 |
12 |
14 |
9 |
6 |
10 |
10 |
13 |
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| $ |
$6.6 |
$7 |
$8.43 |
$4.67 |
$4.34 |
$3.27 |
$3.27 |
$6.11 |
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| Keystone V18293 Shot by
American Plane |
n |
7 |
11 |
15 |
10 |
5 |
9 |
3 |
9 |
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| $ |
$5.57 |
$6.66 |
$6.45 |
$7.2 |
$5.89 |
$4.09 |
$5.3 |
$6.6 |
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| Keystone 18077 Preparing
to reconnoiter… |
n |
11 |
7 |
8 |
8 |
5 |
10 |
5 |
2 |
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| $ |
$7.3 |
$7.7 |
$6.96 |
$6.15 |
$4.73 |
$5.22 |
$6.9 |
$2.7 |
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| Keystone V18945 Observation Balloons
near Coblenz |
n |
7 |
6 |
3 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
2 |
7 |
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| $ |
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$11.7 |
$16.05 |
$5.28 |
$6.33 |
$6 |
$11.12 |
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| Keystone 18736 Attaching to winch |
n |
5 |
4 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
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| $ |
$14 |
$12 |
$6.1 |
$16.36 |
$5.53 |
$7.12 |
$13.3 |
$6.79 |
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Keystone 8632 "The Graf Zeppelin's rendezvous with
the eternal desert and ancient pyramids of Giza, Egypt."
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n |
3 |
9 |
9 |
6 |
6 |
14 |
5 |
5 |
The Keystone 'classic' |
| $ |
$39.3 |
$48 |
$37.1 |
$40.89 |
$46.56 |
$35.89 |
$34.74 |
$30.17 |
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| Keystone 17398 ZR3 Los Angeles |
n |
2 |
9 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
Lovely viewpoint, not very 3D |
| $ |
$31 |
$44 |
$29.75 |
$33.79 |
$22.3 |
$29.57 |
$26.4 |
$24.9 |
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| U&U Balloon Corps Transport,
Lord Roberts, advance on Johannesburg 1901 |
n |
4 |
3 |
12 |
10 |
9 |
8 |
4 |
6 |
I prefer the other variation! |
| $ |
$13.5 |
$17 |
$17.3 |
$12.76 |
$13.88 |
$19.08 |
$9.55 |
$14.48 |
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| U&U Lord Roberts Advancing
toward Jo'burg. 84th Battery and balloon corps |
n |
3 |
5 |
6 |
4 |
9 |
6 |
8 |
7 |
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| $ |
$17 |
$11 |
$9.95 |
$22.11 |
$14.24 |
$17.97 |
$8.03 |
$10.41 |
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| Keystone 33371 Friedrichshafen,
Germany, is the home of the Zeppelin |
n |
3 |
2 |
7 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
6 |
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| $ |
$80 |
$87 |
$55.94 |
$48.96 |
$63.32 |
$74 |
$41 |
$35.3 |
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| Keystone 32745 Akron Under
Construction |
n |
1 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
0 !! |
4 |
4 |
4 |
Not to be confused with the much rarer
K32763 |
| $ |
$77 |
$45 |
$34 |
$34.3 |
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$89 |
$30.7 |
$40.89 |
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Table showing number of cards presented for sale on Ebay for
balloon/Airship cards where 12 or more examples came up between January 2000 and
December 2007. Data are: Number Sold, Mean Price
in Dollars.
Keystone V series cards are made from Underwood and
Underwood negatives after that company was acquired by Keystone. For these
cards, the Keystone V and U&U versions are counted in together.
Minor variations are treated as being the same card.
Comments from Previous Years.....
January 2006: I got the feeling while compiling these statistics
that both numbers of cards and prices realised were falling. This is not borne
out by the data! Numbers show some variation both up and down, as do prices.
Some real bargains were available in 2004, and the more common observation
balloon views in particular took a tumble.
January 2004 Comment: Prices for the more common
cards show a falling trend. Where the averages have increased, they have been
affected by a single extraordinary bid. This has happened several times in 2003,
with the odd card selling for more than ten times the going rate.
January 2003: Overall, LTA cards do not seem to
be becoming scarcer or pricier. Prices where given are the average successful
final bid price for that card. Unsold cards are on average priced a little
higher (ie too high to attract bids), but some very high realised bids (eg
$34.44 for Keystone 18000) do affect the averages for the sold cards (ie most
sell for less than the average - the mode is less than the mean). Copies of
Keystone 18000 for instance went unsold at $2 or less on three occasions in
2002. The
number of balloon cards vs airship cards _does_ seem to be declining.
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