At what point do you call it rare or a good find?

Not related to ship forum but I consider a rare kit!

Tamiya 1/35 humvee with bushhummer 25mm machine gun! I can't get it any more...
(A stop production and v hard to get kit is a rare kit)

My knowledge of early plastic sailing ship kits produced by toy companies is extremely murky. I know ITC did a Sea Witch on about 1/128 scale, which later reappeared in an Aurora box and most recently in a Lindberg one. (At least I assume they're all versions of the same kit. I've only actually seen the contents of the Aurora version - and that was a long time ago.)

The Aurora Sea Witch that I bought (back in 1970 or thereabouts) had hideous injection-molded sails cast integrally with the yards. It also had a sprue of miniature people who looked like crude ripoffs of Revell ones. I don't know whether the original ITC version had sails or not.

The photo of the Marx kit on ebay is too vague to say much about, but it looks kind of like what I remember about that ITC/Aurora Sea Witch - with the very notable exception of the sails. The Marx ones pretty clearly are vac-formed.

I don't know what sort of relationship may have existed between ITC and Marx; I suppose it's possible that it's the same kit. But I'm inclined to doubt it.

Looks to me like a real historical curiosity - but probably not much of a scale model. There's no way I'd pay a thousand bucks for this thing. But (contrary to what my wife might tell you) I'm not a collector.

Had this kit for about two days a couple of years back.It is rare not a kit you want to really build.The lithograph metal deck was so so.Someone said that Lindberg got the the molds next.Thats correct they reissued it here a couple of years ago.That guys pricing was off the map also no bidders.Get the Revell
Cutty Sark four times the model and a heck of lot cheaper.
Rod

This is a rare find. What determines if its a good find depends on the buyer.

It boils down to collector or builder. A collector may buy it for that price, then sit on it another five years and earn a small markup when he sells it again. But a builder wouldn't want to pay the price because it loses it's collector value once it's assembled and painted ... at least for the first hundred years or so ... LOL!

I have to admit, that is a rare kit. I have one and have only ever seen one other. If you collect kits, this buy it now is probably still high as I do not recall sailing ship kits bringing in the bg buck. Marx's giant Chris-Craft kit is probably a far choicier kit form them. This kit though, I believe was issued by Lindberg not to long ago although I do not know if it had a printed steel deck... probably not. An early PT boat kit from Lindberg (1950's) was issued with a printed cardboard deck but was later reissued with a molded plastic one.

I think I may consider his price if he has it plated in 24 karat gold.