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Author Topic: Value of a cast 2000' Goldberg reel Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 03-15-2005 11:31 PM                     My tech stopped by to give me a present today. A near mint cast Goldberg 2000' reel. I was just wondering what the value of this is. Not that I want to sell it or anything. This reel even has the minute gauge on it.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-16-2005 12:28 AM                        Real value: about $5-10 Ebay value: about $25-40 (!) They sell new for about $80 (slightly more for 1/2" shafts).  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-16-2005 08:07 AM                     Real value: about $5-10 Ebay value: about $25-40 (!) They sell new for about $80 (slightly more for 1/2" shafts). What Scott said. Fill the reel up with junk trailers and sell it on eBay as a mystery reel from an old theatre - $125 Non film people buy these to display in their home video theatres.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-16-2005 11:46 PM                     Two little words help drive up the bids on 20-minute Goldberg house reels on eBay: Art Deco. The reels were not just staples of the changeover era but also examples of functional Art Deco, so the reasoning goes, so they must be a collector's item, I guess. About five years ago I won a eBay auction on a box of seven of what the seller said were shipping reels, for a reasonable price. I received one steel shipping reel...and six vintage Golbderg house reels. One reel was dented badly, but the rest were in fine shape. Had this seller known about the "Art Deco effect", I would not have lucked out this way but he would have cashed in big-time. (500th post..a Jedi Master now...woo-hoo )  |  IP: Logged

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