I got in with complementary tickets.
I stopped going to Radio Rally's quite a few years ago. Back then the average age was 87. Can't be many of them left either.
It has always been on my mind that vintage valve values will drop once the age group desiring them die.
the big market is probably valves used by pro musicians. But with solid state geting such a good mimic of the valve sound, we are on borrowed time.
I have plenty of valves of great value but hard to sell for their true worth and even harder to decide to let them go. but I may see them go the same way as the £10,000 I held in Northern rock Shares.
My uncle the true vinatge items collector in our family always goes by the maxim you should feed your collection out of profits from turnover. You have to keep turning over so that you don't get stuck when the market drops like a brick. Most diy investors are optimists who never consider the possibility markets rise and fall. Valves will not always go upwards, not all valves anyway.
If I could get what my valves might be worth today I could get half way through my mortgage. But I doubt I could find a buyer at those heady prices.
Occasionally I consider I might go and see one of the other collectors and ask for an offer on the lot.
I only need a couple of valves to last the rest of my life, and those needn't be of immense value today. Many great sounding valves hold little value. GK71 for instance.
