Hi Jerry and Denise
Welcome to the Forum.
Our thanks to all that have participated. We have to wonder, however, at the lack of interest in the original 17. And in particular, Burrows Island, with low output, and Sandy Hook, which were very hard to find, at least here on the West Coast. And the very first one, of course, Admiralty Head. Care to share any thoughts on this?
In general there has been a drop in resales of All Harbour Lights. The reason that you couldn’t sell your first 17 as easily as the others is this: The Harbour Light collectors that collect Canadians, AP’s, and varites have been collecting for a long time and have pretty nice collections. They all ready have filled the spots for a Burrows Island, Sandy Hook and Admiralty head and all of the other Harbour lights.
The first 17 that you were selling were Malaysians and Canadians with middle of the road numbers. The ones you were selling that were from 118 to 135 were low numbers, some were even two digits and 103 AP’s . You were also selling Canadian Southern Bells that are hard to find since most of the Canadian Southern Bells had only 200 to 600 made of them. The Sandy hook and Admirity Head had over 2000 Canadian made light houses. The Burrows island was only popular because collectors thought it was rare because of it’s low production. Now that there are less collectors, it isn’t as scarce and it is usually the first one to go when a collector is thinning out his collection. It wasn’t the lighthouse in particular as much as the rarity of the lighthouse that you were selling is why your first 17 didn’t sell as well as some of the others
Now; If the Burrows had a number less than 500 and your Sandy hook and Admiralty Head came with a brown box you would have collectors flocking over them. That would have put them in the extremely rare group.
