Electric Comet wrote in news:mgsf1k$chl$12
@dont-email.me:

what's the story with planes and the prices

what makes a plane worthy for a collector

just trying to understand why some are sought after and fetch a
high price and some don't even though they seems to be similar

Well, like anything that's collectable, it's mostly about
rarity. Some planes were only made for a short time, either
because the design was bad or the maker was not in business
very long, or they were simply so specialized that the demand
didn't exist; those planes are now very rare.

Others are common, but went thru many design variations over
their production lives, and since collectors have to have
"one of everything" the variations that had short production
lives become collectable.

If you really want to know, I'd suggest reading Patrick's
"Blood and Gore" (a compendium of posts from this very newsgroup
about 20 years ago):

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0a.html

John