Most of the egg coddlers described by this web site are no longer available for direct retail sale. [That does not necessarily mean that it is rare or valuable ... see FAQ #4.] Egg coddlers that are no longer manufactured and sold at retail are available from the "secondary market." This makes the hunt as much of an adventure as the final acquisition. Shops that sell antiques and collectibles are a good place to start, online and "brick & mortar." Antiques/Collectible auctions seem to be the place where many egg coddlers are trading hands these days. eBay seems to be the biggest online auction site, although there are many others. Like many collectibles, individual sales/swaps between collectors is also common. Feel free to use our Marketplace Bulletin Board to try to find a trading partner. If you are trying to buy/sell coddlers, you will have better success with eBay or another online sales site.
We have seen egg coddlers for sale at Replacements.COM, from several different manufacturers. Type in coddler into their search page to find what they currently have.
If you have seen an egg-coddler that does not match anything on our web site, either in your collection, or on sale (or that you plan to sell), please do contact us. Digital images of the item are extremely helpful in identifying manufacturers, patterns, and variations. If you have photographs that you can't digitize, please send them by postal mail to: Egg-Coddlers.COM, P.O. Box 207, Glen Echo MD 20817-0207, U.S.A.. Please do indicate whether you wish the photographs returned to you once we have scanned them.
There are several fundamental reasons for this policy. The most important reason is that we feel that such valuation data is often arbitrary, and causes unhealthy speculation in the "coddler marketplace".
As with most collectibles, the value of a particular object is based entirely on what a seller is willing to accept from a buyer, both being able and willing to conduct their part of the transaction under mutually agreeable terms. The fact that of the matter is that online auctions, such as eBay have had an amazing impact on the coddler marketplace. On the one hand, there are many more sellers who can make their goods visible to a much larger audience of buyers who are able to see what is available and add it to their collections. On the other hand, the auction venue creates an additional factor, what I call the "winning hysteria," that tends to push the final price of auction items, even those that are available through retail channels, to amazingly high closing prices.
We don't believe that maintaining a running tally of prices paid at auction for specific coddlers would be constructive. Such a tally would also be extremely difficult to maintain accurately, and could also be perceived as a serious "conflict of interest." All site editors and contributors are buyers, collectors, and/or sellers of egg coddlers for their own collections. Rather than create the possibility of inappropriate appearance, we simply will stay away from the valuation issue entirely.
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