Siddur ARI on eBay

Jabotinsky commenting: I actually have around 70 letters of the rebbe rashab, 120 of the frierdikeh rebbe, 10 of them hand written does any body know what these would go for? (obviously those of the rebbe reshab are all ksav yad)

Schneur Zalman of NY: The market never lies; placing them on the block is one way to find out their value. Another way is to check recent auction catalogs from places like Kestenbaum and Froelich etc and see what similar items went for in recent shows. An Israeli concern led by Rabbis Rosenfeld and Winograd of Jslm has a CD available that among other information supplies auction prices for BOOKS. I would guess that the potential buyers would be from the general Chassidic community (Hungarian), as Lubavitchers are not that much into collectables. In my 25 years in YU I have never encountered a Chabad person interested in collecting rare books or Kisve yados etc. I have met Bobover, Satmar, Nitra, Belzer etc who are dealers, buyers, collectors, but never met a Chabad man "vos kocht zich in alte seforim un kisve yados". Of course that community has experts in the field Chitrik, Mundshine, Levine (who does not buy books as far as I know the Lubavitch community does not supply him with an acquisitions budget!!!) Naftali Krauss and I am sure others, but collectors, perhaps but not that I know of. And while we are ion the subject lets mention the gadol hador in bibliography of rare books - Reb Chaim Lieberman another Lubavitcher. I would guess depending on the contents that these letters are worth about $1,200-1,600 a piece but before anyone gets excited, that�s a guess. Good luck.