23 Assorted BRANDED WINE PANELS. SIDE /End Tops / Wood Diff. Sizes. Nice Lot!

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MIXED BAG of 23 Great assorted panels in different sizes. Pictures are just examples. you will receive panels from crates that have NOT been used in a display. they will have holes on edge from where the nails or staples were only. A Great assortment of 23 panels in good to excellent condition. PANELS WILL VARY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS. Selling my collection of wine panels. These are very difficult to get and get rarer by the day. My project is done and I will be listing more...
MY WOOD PANEL THESSIS or Here is my 2 cents worth: Wood wine boxes and panels get rarer everyday. They are extremely hard to get and even harder to accumulate in any meaningful way. FACT. The same as corks being now replaced by synthetics and screw tops every year more of the wineries are switching to cardboard containers. The reason for this is obvious, mostly price but also just plain convenience of ordering a cardboard box as opposed to manufacturing a wooden crate. Of course it is also much easier to have a pallet of cardboard boxes that just need to be propped open and taped into shape as needed as opposed to the amount of space needed to store assembled wood crates. In my estimation which I believe to be correct approximately 99.99% of all crates are destroyed!!! Either broken down and trashed or burned. That’s a fact. Now keep in mind that the majority of the panels that are sold on eBay by me and a few others are used for some sort of display in a restaurant or home or change form by artists and designers. Those eventually will also be destroyed. People move, restaurants close, tastes change. For a collector like me this is a nightmare. Any panel that is dated is no longer made and there are very few left to be able to collect a series of vintages from a particular brand is virtually impossible. It is only recently that anyone has even put some sort of value on these. It really is extremely difficult to get the wood panels and in the very near future there will be none. My main collection was accumulated over 25 years and I am able to get more from a few dwindling sources. For those collectors that have not altered their panels by “a design” of some sort, I believe they will be rewarded in the future. I have made the decision to sell everything and turn the wine panels into a short term business only because I want to get rid of all the things that I have accumulated in my lifetime. But that’s another story…