boxes, wondering if they are worth anything.

[Anonymous]

hopfully the link works and a picture shows up, are they boxes worth anything??thanks.


might have to right click and go to view image to see it.

[ndbprr]

couldn't see it.

[cacole]

Just an empty box? Yes, I have seen empty Athearn boxes offered for sale on e-bay and at flea markets.

What your's may be worth is a matter of rarity.

[IRONROOSTER]

The HO collectors market is not as robust or well established as the O gauge 3 rail collectors market. So value may be hard to establish if at all, short of an auction. BTW from the picture it looks like you have a locomotive in the top box. Locomotives in original boxes are usually worth more than locomotives without the box, but again with HO there really is no established price except for brass (and the last brass price list is old).
Enjoy
Paul

[Big_Boy_4005]

I would have to say that if there is no collector value to the train, then there's no collector value to the box. As Paul said, in the 3 rail O market, and the standard gauge market too, empty boxes can fetch crazy prices. The older and more unusual the hgher they can go. I've seen boxes sell $500, and heard of some going for over $1000, but these boxes belong to trains that sell for upwards of $10,000 and more.

[sebamat]

In HO I would say a empty box alone is not worth much.

On then other side an engine/car with its own box is more worth/easier to sell as without; probably because the idea is, well packeged in its box the model should have got a better treatment as without, and for the new owner the box make transport and storage easier and lower risk for damages.

sebastiano

[Darth Santa Fe]

If you have the engine that originally came in the box and put it in the box then it is worth something. But a box when it's by itself isn't worth much. (unless it's an X-BOX)

[samgolden]

I saw a post on Ebay for a Lionel 44 ton Switcher, and the next post was for the Box. The box sold for $18. but the loco was less.
Sam

[Big_Boy_4005]

More than 20 years ago I paid $5 for a Lionel box in an auction. The guys around me thought I was crazy, but I wanted it because I owned the car. It wasn't a bargain back then, but by today's standards it might be.

Out of curiosity, how much were those Athearn boxes going for, a buck or two for blue ones??? Weren't the old ones yellow??? Those might be worth more.

[Anonymous]

na these ant athern boxes, one is a linoel box, its grey and have the gs4 daylight in it painted in the amercian freedom train colours, the other one is a box that i beleave you got when you went on the daylight train back in the 60's, has a map on the back of its route, and that one is empty

[ben10ben]

Several months ago, I saw a box for a Lionel 736 sell on Ebay for $800. The engine by itself would only sell for $300, or probably twice as much in a decent condition box. The box that sold for $800 was in exceptionally nice condition, but I couldn't see paying that much for one and not getting the train that should be in it also.