When i decided to sell my collection, it was mostly gone in 2 days ( i held back a shelf of favorites). I thought I had collected every trapping book that was available; it was quite extensive including magazines like FFG HTT Fur News, old Trappers World. Every piece I sold I had read. The education comes from the reading and the ads. The ads always listed lessons for sale etc. The common stuff will always be available; the problem is most do not not want to read anymore as: CD's, tapes, you tube the web has made it easier; the problem with that is most of it is all rehash. How many ways to make a pocket set or dirt hole. Collecting paper is like coin collecting, rarity, pedigree, type, condition and popularity. Whats hot and whats not. Spends some time looking for the more difficult stuff and you will get an education. If you want a challenge try to find Ray Blacks Evolution of a Beaver Trapper, E.F. Keith's Fox Trapping or Roy Kuykedals (spelling) Fur Harvester (coyote book), read the old magazines and find out when private lessons and methods were offered. Names like E Krepps, E N Woodcock, see E J Dailey as a skunk trapper and read about the wilderness with Raymond Thompson and Neil Lindsey. As far as price goes that depends on what the market will bear, e bay is a guide line just as the trapper shed is on the site. Don;t try to sell coyote material to a muskrat trapper. I now have more paper than when I started and i seem to sell material at the shows I attend and do a far amount of phone sales from people that are looking. Rule of thumb 3 to 5 on common paperbacks. Rae stuff another ball game. MAGS 50 cents to 35 dollars. Dont forget that some mags are favored due to the articles and authors.

When i decided to sell my collection, it was mostly gone in 2 days ( i held back a shelf of favorites). I thought I had collected every trapping book that was available; it was quite extensive including magazines like FFG HTT Fur News, old Trappers World. Every piece I sold I had read. The education comes from the reading and the ads. The ads always listed lessons for sale etc. The common stuff will always be available; the problem is most do not not want to read anymore as: CD's, tapes, you tube the web has made it easier; the problem with that is most of it is all rehash. How many ways to make a pocket set or dirt hole. Collecting paper is like coin collecting, rarity, pedigree, type, condition and popularity. Whats hot and whats not. Spends some time looking for the more difficult stuff and you will get an education. If you want a challenge try to find Ray Blacks Evolution of a Beaver Trapper, E.F. Keith's Fox Trapping or Roy Kuykedals (spelling) Fur Harvester (coyote book), read the old magazines and find out when private lessons and methods were offered. Names like E Krepps, E N Woodcock, see E J Dailey as a skunk trapper and read about the wilderness with Raymond Thompson and Neil Lindsey. As far as price goes that depends on what the market will bear, e bay is a guide line just as the trapper shed is on the site. Don;t try to sell coyote material to a muskrat trapper. I now have more paper than when I started and i seem to sell material at the shows I attend and do a far amount of phone sales from people that are looking. Rule of thumb 3 to 5 on common paperbacks. Rae stuff another ball game. MAGS 50 cents to 35 dollars. Dont forget that some mags are favored due to the articles and authors.

PaulB, I would love to see it, I think other readers would like to see it also.

Thanks

any info on a small magazine The Pennsylvania Trapper put out by Gard Stephens Curwensville Pa in 1935,How many issues or how long it was printed? thanks