Rarest Irish callcards?

BengaLover

Got a collection of hundreds to go through.. What should I be looking for?

Mr Trade In

Good place to start. http://www.iol.ie/~tintori/telecom1.html

BengaLover

Thanks, interesting, I had seen that site but wondered how up to date it is.It was made in 1995, so surely due to events and history and stuff some cards that maybe were once not of interest could be now?

thecelt

was trying to find info about cards a while back myself but hit a deadend!

The piero tintori website is old and not updated to the best of my knowledge!

If you google him it looks like he works for TERMINALFOUR ,
so i'd reckon hes not into call cards anymore

Gun_money

BengaLover wrote: »

Got a collection of hundreds to go through.. What should I be looking for?

Some one to buy them
There is not as much value as there was in both mint and used cards.
Have being looking for some sort of pricing but to no avail.
Guessing some of the trial cards and private cards might be worth looking for.
Put them on adverts and you'll soon know there value.

thegift06

any of these rare?

Gun_money

Nope, I would not consider them so.

Skerries

is a card more valuable if it has credit on it or does it matter?

shawnee

Ones that are unused (mint) are of more value and are often wrapped. However the demand for them doesn't seem big at the moment.

stevejr

The Gift-Can't make it out but the one with horses on it, does it say horse racing in Ireland or Irish Horse Racing. If it's the former then it was the mid 90's a very valuable card as horse racing in Ireland was a mistake and only a few hundred cards had this variation.

Also cards with 100 units tended to be rarer as they sold less and were cosidered more valuable at the time (mid 90's). Hope this helps.

I'm really not sure if there is still a market for them but I may be wrong.

Lister1

AFAIK....Only real rare cards are the ones that were issued in test phase when they were deciding on what type of card to use. But even then I dont think there is any big money in them anymore as there are not many collectors around.

Edit: I do actually have one of these cards as well. Its the night time view of the half penny bridge over the liffey. Listed in Piero Tintori's catelogue as being worth around 125 punt but I doubt it would be worth as much now due to the decline in collectors.



Also have the Communications 93 one in the original holder which was given out to the people at the conference which I would think would be very rare.

foxtrot1983

Im selling my full mint collection - take a look!!

http://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/mint-irish-callcard-collection/486211

seanie401

1st Cork International 5unit call card , It is a BT callcard 1 of 600 issued ,any idea of value.Is it worth holding on to?Any input would be welcome.

madmoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/71055332#Comment_71055332

No comments on your advert, did you actually sell them? I have a fairly decent collection, some in wrappers. Were all of yours MINT in wrappers?

Thanks

madmoe

Any collectors in these parts?

madmoe

Also looking for these if anyone has some.

Thanks

chrisd2019

Says item sold at present

granturismo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121229827#Comment_121229827

The ad and post were 11 years old.

@madmoe managed to reply to a zombie thread.

madmoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121229876#Comment_121229876

Oooops, no harm done! I am back collecting again after finding my collection in my mam's house. Went to the first ever Callcard fair back in 1993 when I was 14. Anyone in here who still actively collects them?

Thanks