GNRi1959 Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I've often wondered if tickets on ebay claiming to be genuine actually are. Some are in mint condition, un-used and claim to be authentic. Are they replicas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I don't think I've ever come across replica tickets on eBay. I think a lot of the mint, unused ones come from unsold stock which was offloaded or 'liberated' when the companies closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNRi1959 Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 I don't think I've ever come across replica tickets on eBay. I think a lot of the mint, unused ones come from unsold stock which was offloaded or 'liberated' when the companies closed. Including those from 1950s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Including those from 1950s That's what I was referring to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 It wouldn't be commercially viable (thankfully) to do a print run of an old ticket, thus authenticity is normal, if not inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 I've often wondered if tickets on ebay claiming to be genuine actually are. Some are in mint condition, un-used and claim to be authentic. Are they replicas? Tony The "new-looking" tickets which you see are referred to by ticket collectors as "Audits" and are quite real. - in simple terms, unused tickets. There must be thousands still around, as the old companies printed far more of some tickets than they could ever have needed. They are lower value to collectors than used tickets, or so my ticket collecting friends tell me! Leslie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNRi1959 Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 Thanks Leslie, I agree, the older, used variety are more collectable. A dealer in Co. Down told me he bought thousands of them at an auction for next to nothing. He was selling them off at 99p each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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