Wondering if anyone has seen any recent collecting shifts, trends, etc. in our hobby over the past few months, year that are noteworthy?
In my corner of the hobby, it seems like a lot more pre/WW2 era Japanese paper is coming onto market from Japan. Pricing is high for some reason, but it seems like several Japan based dealers have high prices on their items when they hit ebay. Unfortunately, this will not bode well for collecting in the future when people are looking for "vet captured" items and are offered finds from post war Japan. It will make vet. provenance and capture stamps/paperwork/written kanji even more important since the history of the items can't be taken at face value any more.
How about other aspects of our hobby? Helmets, uniforms, swords, etc. Any big changes? Drop off in interest? I am interested to hear your thoughts.
Thanks!
Tom
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