 Poster: A snowHead
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I've been offered two pairs of vintage wooden skis, they've been kept in a barn for years, dirty, dusty but lovely old things, don't want to insult them with a naff offer but then I dont 'need' them I just like them! Any ideas on a fair offer?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well you can buy firewood for about a fiver a bundle.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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See ebay. If they are actually wooden, not 1970s jobbies, and nothing seriously desirable I'd offer them £100 for both. I'm kind of possibly on the lookout for some, and that's what I'd offer.
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Friend paid £50 for a nice pair.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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If you are more than 100miles from the Alps - about £20 each. Close to the Alps £100 each. Still looking for a truckful to take to the Street Sales in Tignes!
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£100 for the pair sounds about right to me.
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I think if the skis have intact bindings (probably Kandahar cable type bindings?) they'll be worth more than if the skis have missing/broken bindings.
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Bought some for antique shop in edinburgh for 40.
1930 kastle from arlberg.
Wood with screw on metal edges.
One slightly broken cable binding.
Think that was a bargain, 50-100 seems fair
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£100 for the pair sounds about right to me
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Not clear, sorry. I meant £100 for the pair of pairs. 
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Thanks everyone, pretty unanimous then £100 for both  I will try and post some pics later.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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the ones with Christiania on are certainly old - the city was re-named Oslo in 1925! The ones with the lines not going straight down look a bit strange - I saw lots of old skis in several museums in Norway recently and they all had straight longitudinal grooves! But maybe they are a special edition. Very interesting. Are they very long? some were 3m.
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You know it makes sense.
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I paid about £100 for a lovely old pair in Herefordshire of all places and some 1920's snow shoes for £70.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@feefee, the old skis in the Norwegian museum all had some kind of grooves down their length IIRC.
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