I would like some serious advice, on selling some photographs.
Serious advice please.
My grandad passed away a few years ago. Left me some cash, I bought a fuck off great big motorbike with it. :D
Left my dad lots of stuff, including his entire photography collection. My grandad worked for London Transport, nearly his whole life. Reserved occupation during the war, making "special projects" instead of fixing buses, and retired in 1977.
He was also a member of L.T photography club. He took hundreds, if not thousands of photographs, slides, and cine-film in and around various L.t bus depots, training centres, skid pans. We have hundreds of quality photos and slides, of Regent Threes, Route Masters (my knoledge of buses ends there) in various places, being stripped down, rebuilt, on skid pans, one offs etc
Now, I've noticed that there is some sort of sub-species of trainspotter out there, the BUS SPOTTER. We've also noticed on eBay, individual postcards of a L.T bus selling for ?5 or ?6 each. Specialist books still come out, and retail at a fair bit.
What is the best way do you think to get a few quid from this?
We would like at some point, for these photos to be used in subsequent history/specialist books if possible. but would quite like to make a few quid too.
I've no dellusions of them being worth a fortune, but I'd hate to just let someone else make the cash on the back of them outside of the family.
My grandad passed away a few years ago. Left me some cash, I bought a fuck off great big motorbike with it. :D
Left my dad lots of stuff, including his entire photography collection. My grandad worked for London Transport, nearly his whole life. Reserved occupation during the war, making "special projects" instead of fixing buses, and retired in 1977.
He was also a member of L.T photography club. He took hundreds, if not thousands of photographs, slides, and cine-film in and around various L.t bus depots, training centres, skid pans. We have hundreds of quality photos and slides, of Regent Threes, Route Masters (my knoledge of buses ends there) in various places, being stripped down, rebuilt, on skid pans, one offs etc
Now, I've noticed that there is some sort of sub-species of trainspotter out there, the BUS SPOTTER. We've also noticed on eBay, individual postcards of a L.T bus selling for ?5 or ?6 each. Specialist books still come out, and retail at a fair bit.
What is the best way do you think to get a few quid from this?
We would like at some point, for these photos to be used in subsequent history/specialist books if possible. but would quite like to make a few quid too.
I've no dellusions of them being worth a fortune, but I'd hate to just let someone else make the cash on the back of them outside of the family.
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(i) getting hold of the publication houses of the specialist books you mention, and writing to them with your archive to see if they know of a likely writer to commission to do research on them, with rights/cash remaining with you?
(ii) approaching the London Transport museum - www.ltmuseum.co.uk for specialist advice - they might host a display of the work and pay you for the pleasure?
(iii) there must be bus-spotting forums out there in the ether....if you were brave you could join a few and see what the general buzz was on these photos that you have?
(iv) write to Boris johnson and see if he wants to use them in a publicity campaign to get Londoners on buses!
(v) there are some websites which advertise selling your photos for money - one I've heard of is www.sellmyphotos.co.uk but I don't know how it works, in truth
Definitely worth cataloguing what you have though, as that would help with any enquiries from publishers or auction houses should you want to offload the lot in one go and get a fair price for them.
A nice thing to have.... :)