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Rich Klein Is harder than you think. With very few exceptions; you don't get as much as you think you should for the images. And places like Getty Images when they purchase a collection; will not give you any where near what you think they should be worth. And then; with so few players left to sign who played in the 40's and 50's and even the 60's -- again the money making on these players will be less than you think for there will be less public appearences for them to sign at to make money on selling large groups (100 or so) of the 8 by 10's of the negatives you have. I'm not saying that you don't have some value there -- but it is frankly not as much as you may think. If the value were much larger; you'd see more lots in the major auction houses catalogs.
Lelands bought out an SF paper and has done pretty well with those; but even then you saw Josh Evans post last week about the show he is setting up at and the rate of selling photos at $3 per retail in a show situation.
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Rich Klein