Reproductions: Help or Hurt the hobby?

cowseatmaize · Nov 10, 2007

They help me sometimes. Some bottles I know I'll never have the real thing but a nicely done Clev works fine as a representation and it can be affordable. I wish the early Clevs hadn't gained such popularity, that might be the BOOZ I'd chooz. They're usually up over $100 now. They're also antiques now.

bottleboy311 · Mar 16, 2008

With any hobby the idea is to get more people interested in the hobby. If more people are collecting the items, those items become more valuable. (Old Economic Supply and Demand Therory.) However, when new collectors see an item, with a book value of $200.00, selling for $75.00, they think the are getting a great deal, so they buy it up. But they do not know it is a repro. When they find out 3 months later that it was a repro, only worth $9.95, sometimes they get turned off and stop collecting. And this loss means less demand for the old items. Furthermore, if the market is flooded with repros, it does do something to the value the original. If someone wants a certain bottle or jar, valued a $200.00, but now can get a knock-off for $10.00 to $15.00, they may not spend that kind of money for the real thing. In these ways I think repros hurt the hobby.

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