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Topic: Alan Bean's 'Reaching for the Stars' value
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GD775
New Member Posts: 1
From: Tampa, Florida, USA
Registered: Sep 2022
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posted 05-24-2023 09:34 AM
   
For those of you familiar with Alan Bean's "Reaching for the Stars" the print, why do you think they sell for so low considering they have five of the Mercury 7 signatures and 24 total signatures including three or four moonwalkers?I've seen a couple go on eBay for $800 to $900 range and the original Greenwhich workshop still has them in stock for $1,100. Seems odd to me. Just a thought.  |
Altidude
Member Posts: 142
From:
Registered: Jan 2016
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posted 05-24-2023 12:03 PM
I really think that it was because Al basically flooded the market with prints. At first, they were highly prized. It was a way to have a cool image with actual astronaut signatures. Novaspace even had a collectors club to get each new print as it was released. However, he suddenly started releasing a ton of these with giclee editions as well. We have to remember that this is still a niche market and a print takes a lot of wall space and is a big statement. A signed photo can be much easily stored and displayed. One can have a binder with a hundred of these, but it's just not a cool to have a closet full of tubes. I think that actually the signatures themselves keep the value higher than they would otherwise be. Just my thoughts. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 2123
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-24-2023 01:28 PM
Great question and answer. Thanks. |
hbw60
Member Posts: 305
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Registered: Aug 2018
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posted 05-25-2023 02:29 AM
I agree with the statement above. In addition, I've just never been fond of this particular print. I wish the signatures were placed all together in a separate section at the bottom, and not next to their names. To me, it just makes the collection look extremely barren and incomplete.When I was young, I collected baseball cards, but I didn't have a lot of money. At first, I would put the cards in binder pages according to their ID number, leaving gaps for the cards I was missing (with the hopes of getting them later). But every time I opened my binder, all of those empty spaces made my collection look pathetic. So I eventually just used fewer pages and filled them up. And it no longer looked like a partial collection. It just looked like a bunch of nice cards. And it's the same situation here. There are a lot of great signatures on this print. But the way they're arranged just reminds you of how many aren't there. I've always preferred the prints that are more specific to Apollo 12, with a set of signatures that feel complete. And to me, it's a bigger surprise that those are still available. Last year I bought my favorite print "Heavenly Reflections", signed by Conrad and Bean, for $200 at Greenwich Workshop. It was signed almost 25 years ago, and yet still in stock. So I think Altitude's response above is the best explanation. |
Axman
Member Posts: 22
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 05-26-2023 12:15 PM
There is also the consideration that only a small portion of the population (including collectors) are comfortable paying prices above certain limits. There seem to be natural obstacles, like falls in the way of salmon migrating upstream, around the $/£10, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 marks.Anybody willing to start paying above £/$ 1000 either know Exactly what they want, or don't care how much they spend. The latter types don't tend to collect for collection's sake but because either it has moneyed class social cachet or because it's an "investment" | |
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