Comments on: 3 Mill Collections Right Now on eBay

By: Todd Pederzani

Todd Pederzani — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:49:22 +0000

And the third auction went for $635. That’s above even current market value for all five mills, especially considering that only two of them have the good quality Peugeot mechanism. The others were either of later make or were produced after the Peugeot mechanism was phased out.

By: Todd Pederzani

Todd Pederzani — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:43:04 +0000

He made a nice profit on those mills, but think the prices would have been better had they been split up. I haven’t seen the buyer around before, perhaps he’s starting his own collection.

By: mperlson

mperlson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:11:46 +0000

Now we’re talking. The second went for $1225. That’s about $80 per mill. Even though this collection includes two non-Dansk mills, they are great examples. The collection has 4 more mills overall, and although only one of them are in the realm of $300, the collection as a whole is very nice. Still not the $4,000 prices we were seeing from some of the auction houses.

By: mperlson

mperlson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:03:23 +0000

So, the first ended for $620. The winner got a pretty good deal. That’s about $56 a mill, and two of them regularly go for well over $200.

By: Todd Pederzani

Todd Pederzani — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:54:10 +0000

I think we do need more words, Mark. People ask me whether mills are “rare” quite a bit, but I don’t know how to answer them. Some of the ones that are selling on eBay for high prices are surely “rare” in that there aren’t many of them, but are much newer than some mill that sell for less. For me, age/vintage is a very important dimension for any given peppermill. That holds especially true since most production changes affected the sculptural shape of the mills.

By: mperlson

mperlson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:23:50 +0000

I was thinking on the one on p 22 in my book in the first one, and the fluted bullet (p 52) in the second one. They aren’t super rare, but I think they are rare, and amy mill that sells for almost $300 (as a bullet recently did) is valuable in my book. Maybe we need more words for rare, like Eskimos have words for snow, so that we can properly classify them;)

By: Heath Johnson

Heath Johnson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:11:47 +0000

Which mill are you considering to be “one quite rare and valuable specimen…”?