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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:14 am Post subject:
Thank you and welcome to the Tome. I moved your post to the right spot. Your Jade Hare should do well. Please let us know if you have any questions. _________________ "This is cool."
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:18 am Post subject:
I think the Jade Hare w/cover, the Daystar West Pharaoh, and the Planescape Sketchbook are the real rares in D&D if we exclude dot matrix-to-photocopy material. There's plenty of the rest to go around. _________________ "This is cool."
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:
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I think the Jade Hare w/cover, the Daystar West Pharaoh, and the Planescape Sketchbook are the real rares in D&D
The trouble with the Jade Hare is that it has no mystique. Pharaoh is really cool. That sketchbook isn't as rare as you imagine either by the way but it's pretty cool since the artist is getting more popular and Planescape is a cool setting. Jade Hare is just maybe really rare. So, what's something worth that is just rare for the sake of being rare? I'm sure it's worth a lot to some people but there are a lot of other items that have a cool "aura" about them which this item is seriously lacking imo.
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:42 pm Post subject:
That's why I never bought one (JH), that and paying thousands more for a cover seemed a not-too-wise use of my collecting dollar. And you right about PS. There's more of those to be had than is commonly known. _________________ "This is cool."
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:
I'm happy to see that the auction is going well. The one thing I like about the Jade Hare is that it sometimes pops up as a nice extra in the bigger black D&D boxed sets. I have seen a number of them sell that and that is how I obtained my copy as well.
The sentiments in this thread are some of the main reasons I like collecting the small press items - each one is generally considered rare compared with most TSR stuff and each has a nice aura about them.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:
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I like collecting the small press items - each one is generally considered rare compared with most TSR stuff and each has a nice aura about them.
I bet a lot of them are really original as well! Plus you probably get them cheap unless it has been identified as a desirable "rare". I wish that I had a good RPG collection sometimes
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:31 pm Post subject:
scribe wrote:
Not to mention that it is likely the only 'guaranteed authentic' Jade Hare you could find on the market place.
I was just wondering what actually authenticates this item?
I read through the old Acaeum thread and all it mentions is that the buyer (before Len) got it from a friend who says it may or may not have come from the TSR library. The seller sold 2 copies and there aren't any names mentioned about the original purchaser or how they came to obtain 2 copies from the TSR library.
At the time (Dec 2002), your opinion and Len's suggested that the cardstock cover authenticated the item. Today, in my opinion, a cardstock cover would be sending up all the warning signals. And unless it was authenticated by a former TSR employee I would be skeptical.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:20 pm Post subject:
I think it was confirmed to foulfoot, off forum (by an x-tsr employee?), that the items with the cardstock cover were indeed produced by TSR with a specified number of them made..... 10?
I think it would be difficult to reproduce a cardstock slick. The coverless version would be much easier.
Also, there have been numerous people of varying degrees of anonymity who were in possession of items from those old TSR days. I wouldn't be surprised if those items legitimately (mostly) found their way out of the vaults of TSR, only to re-appear years later in auction. _________________
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