Lt. de Martinet Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I found one of my old Metru Raus ( http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=47303 ) today, and noticed that it has a very noticeable white streak marbled in the plastic: Does anyone know what this is worth, or how often this kind of accidental marbling happens? I'm not planning on selling it, but it'd be nice to know. Thanks, Ryan Quote
Hewman Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 It's pretty hard to put an exact value on such things. Marbled bricks seem to be becoming more common in recent years and they do come up for sale on bricklink. I've seen some spectacular examples of marbling, looking like an almost 50-50 split of two colours and sometimes a very basic brick might go for a couple dollars rather than a few cents. I guess in your case being a bit more specialised piece there may be a niche market for this variant. Maybe a bionicle expert out there would have more idea, but bottom line is I don't think you'll be able to retire if you did sell it Quote
prateek Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 it probably got stressed out by something and came back to its original shape (?) a lot of my transparent bricks and bionicle pieces are like that. Quote
Lt. de Martinet Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 It's defiinitely NOT a stress mark. Quote
xenologer Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 I'll suggest that in this case its worth Less than that part would be normally. If it was a cool looking marbling, that was like uniform across the whole part, then maybe more, but in this case its just kinda an ugly scar on one side. Quote
Lt. de Martinet Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 I'll suggest that in this case its worth Less than that part would be normally.If it was a cool looking marbling, that was like uniform across the whole part, then maybe more, but in this case its just kinda an ugly scar on one side. I disagree. Misprints are worth more (at least a little) than the normal version because they're so rare. Collectors like defects -- There are thousands of the normal part, but how many are there like this? Quote
Sidorak The Hunter Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 You might get an extra dollar or two for it; I wouldn't expect much more than that. Quote
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