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As others have said - it's a bit variable. I collect these too, and paid nearly 4k for one off a dealer (I'm slightly less stupid now) that arrived in terrible condition and with miserable optics during the silly pricing phase when I'd spent nearly a year trying to find one. I picked up another, complete and in perfect condition with exquisite optics for half that a year later.
The fact is, as a working telescope they really aren't especially good or practical. But as one devotee of them has said, 'you spend more time looking at them than through them'.
So if there's more than one collector around you should be able to get a good price for it :-). If it's got every accessory intact and working then you are at one end, if, like mine, the fine motion controls are missing and the coating gone from the optics, it's not really worth more than a few hundred.
Where are you located?
Cheers,
Andrew.
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