I will be listing a single owner collection of British Quads, beginning the
28th, and the collection contains a lot of older quads, and I am struck by
the fact that, in all my years in the hobby, I have seen just a tiny number
of quads from before 1960 (and even most titles from the early 1960s seem to
be many times more rare than their U.S. counterparts).
This collection contains 23 from the 1940s, 228 from the 1950s, 120 from the
1960s, and 116 from the 1970s to present!
I am hoping MoPo members (especially long time collectors/dealers, and even
more so those from the U.K.) can weigh in on the following:
1) Am I correct in thinking that there are virtually no quads from before
1960 in collectors' hands?
2) In all my years, I have personally only ever seen a handful of pre-1960
quads before viewing this collection; has anyone here seen any substantial
number of them?
3) If they are as rare as I have stated, WHY is that? I understand that
pre-WWII paper from all European countries is super-scarce, but in all other
European countries you can easily find just about every post WWII title. Why
is the U.K. different from the other countries? Is it that they had far
fewer cinemas?
Any light anyone here can shed on this will be greatly appreciated!
Bruce
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