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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: ghopper1924 on December 13, 2019, 12:42:50 PM
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Things are sloooowwww around here, so I'm super excited to tell y'all about this lucky auction find here in the cultural desert in which I live...:)
I bought this set at what I have to believe is a bargain price. It's the collected works of Winston Churchill, produced in 1975, all 38 volumes. The covers are vellum.
According to the information page in each book, there were 2000 made for the UK and 1000 for the U.S. and Canada. Information I've seen on the internet says that in actuality only 1750 sets total were produced. OK, I can believe that since this was such a titanic undertaking. However, sheets in my set say that it is number 2146. How can this be?
Anyway, the set is on the top shelf and on the left-hand side of the next shelf down. Happy happy!
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Glad someone is making great finds !! May be wrong but if these were made by one publisher,, that would have been 3000 made just retailed at 2000 to UK and 1000 to US and CA. but would have been numbered in sequence !! So thats why yours are numbered 2146 !! Since all are English speaking countries there would be no reason to change anything !! Just published a lot of 3000 with shipping to UK at 2000 and 1000 retained and sold here and CA.
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Wow how cool is that?
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I don't think you're far off, Mart, thanks!