XPost: alt.railroad, misc.transport.rail.americas   
   From: joxendi@bellsouth.net   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:gl4316-1610071939330001@69-30-11-88.pxd.easystreet.com...   
   > In article , "Jerry"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> > Capitalism 101:  An object's value is what a buyer is willing to pay   
   >> > to a willing seller.  Nothing has an intrinsic value or worth.   
   >   
   >   
   > Unless you use the simple formula:   
   > current price of scrap metal * weight of scrap metal in object = value of   
   > object   
   >   
   >   
   >> I got several lanterns, one kerosene with the red lens, one metal   
   >> "Handlan"   
   >> lantern I carried in the yards, and an orange and black plastic one with   
   >> the   
   >> Southern Railway logo on it.  Reckon those would make me rich?   
   >   
   >   
   > Problem is that you can't always trust the price something "sold" for on   
   > e-bay.  A very rare record found at one of our local "used music" stores   
   > recently "sold" on e-bay for something like $95,000.  The money was never   
   > sent to the seller.   
   >   
   > --   
   > -Glennl   
   > e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317.   
      
   Yep, I'm in no doubt of that! I was just funnin' anyway.  None of this stuff   
   that I collected over 30 years is for sale anyway. It's just memories I've   
   collected that will go to my family someday.  They *might" be worth   
   something SOME day, then maybe not. I DO have a sneaking feeling that that   
   set of Southern RR whiskey tumblers just might become a collector's item   
   someday because 1) they are one-of-a-kind, and 2) that road is history (but   
   within NS Corp), and 3) you can't get 'em anymore.   
      
   It's hard to tell what might be "valuable".  I've got this fellow at the   
   local Chevy dealership who just worries me to DEATH to give him my service   
   pins (NS and Sou). He keeps offering me more and more (it ain't that much   
   money tho), but he doesn't seem to understand they ain't for sale! I   
   sometimes forget they are on my NS cap(s) and accidently wear one to the   
   Chevy garage, Then, OH LORDY, it's ON then!  I get TIRED of hearing it! :)   
   He's a foamer if there ever WAS one!   
      
      
   J   
      
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