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So I bought some Vintage 80’s\early 90’s Disney World Family Photos. It is a whole photo album full, maybe 150-200 pictures. I cannot find anything like it listed or sold.
Does anyone have experience selling this type of item? I am wondering what might be a good price. I would say that about 20% of the photos are just pictures of the family. The rest are the attractions at Disney World.
Based on what attractions were in the pictures, my wife and I have narrowed down that they took this trip some time between 1989-1994.
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Yessss. Great find! I haven’t sold disney photos from that time period, but I have done well with the 80s-90s Disney ephemera that I find, as well as in general 80s-00s photos.
I would do a bunch of reasearch to start off with with this album. What I would do is start off with looking at the rides and attractions and writing them down in a list. Then, I would figure out what is a still open attraction and what has shut down. I would include the list of all of them no matter what, but place an emphasis on the rides that are no longer there. I would also include hotels if they took any photos of where they were staying.
If you have any ephemera included in the album, keep it to verify the time frame of the album. Also mention the ephemera in the listing.
Make sure to state in the listing that not all are Disney. If there are other theme parks or travel locations in these additional photos, include them as well. If they’re just boring family photos, say that as well. There are collectors of that sort of stuff out there.
I would prob. price this at $100 obo and expect to get around $50 out of it, depending on the quality of photos and what is specifically shown. I would probably keyword the title “1980s 1990s vintage disney world family photo album rides magic kingdom epcot” something like that, include something major like pirates or tiki room or whatever if included to get Disney fanatics to take a look.
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Yeah, older (1950-1970) photos/slides of Disneyland and Disney world are good sellers. Especially of rides that no longer exist.
Your photos sound pretty modern but the 1990s is starting to hit the nostalgia era.
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1990s nostalgia is kicking in hard right now. There are a lot of people in their 30s and 40s now with disposable income and memories of going to Disney in the 1990s, with not too much material available for sale since most families are hanging onto it. This is the sort of material that is not going out into estate sales yet, but will probably do so in the next 10-20 years and be appreciated more at that point.
Since there aren’t that many pieces of “history” out there now (most people think this is junk) like this, that puts an album like this in a position to get a premium.
I also believe the 90s/early 2000s are the last time you’re going to find albums like this. Since everyone has a digital camera or phone now, no one is taking amateur photographs of trips like this and putting it in a physical album anymore. They’re going into facebook photo albums and sites like flickr or dropbox.
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almasty,
Those are some good points. I think I will hold out for a good price for this.
I am not sure why they were selling this at an estate sale, maybe it was a mistake. Of course I got it for almost nothing because the people running the sale didn’t see any value in it. Good for me.
Mark
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Does anyone know what would sell better, Disney (or a popular theme park) or photos from defunct local theme parks? I’m just wondering as I’m sure everyone who every went to Disney took lots of photos (therefore, lots are out there) where an oddball place would have less photos, and may be more valuable?
On a side note, as someone who lives outside Niagara Falls, it always is strange that any serial killer, murder victim, missing couple, missing child, etc. always has a photo in front of Niagara Falls on the news or shows like Dateline/48 Hours/etc. I feel like I must pass by a future murderer or victim everyday in Niagara Falls…
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It looks like the bases are covered, but I wanted to add my perspective as a person who has actively looked for photos with the intention to pay money for them.
I have placed local craigslist adds offering to pay money for photos of the exterior/interior of the mall arcades I frequented as a kid in the 90’s. The arcades were called “The Gold Mine” – the front had a rock and wood beam façade. The inside was painted black with wood beams on the walls and ceiling with lantern style dim lighting so the whole place felt like being in a mine. The mall had not one, but TWO of these arcades! They each had different games.
If I saw a photo album of 80’s/90’s photos of my local mall on ebay (Huntington Mall if any of you have it 😀 ) I would definitely pay money for it.
So yeah, there are people out there with that mindset that want to relive a part of their childhood and enhance their cloudy mental images with real images.
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