"Stalingrad Game Flea Market find!" Topic

Hi all. Just picked this up at a flea market. Complete, near-mint and unpunched. 1974 edition of Avalon Hill's Stalingrad.

Does anyone know if this is the complete game? It has two boards that match up side to side, a battle manual (the rules), an updated rules addendum booklet, a weather table, a combat results table, a time record, an unpunched sheet of cardboard counters, an Avalon Hill game catalog, circa 1974, and a friendly note from AH telling m not to fret that I have two boards instead of one, as it's by design. The box is in fine shape, everything in it looks near mint!

I looked it up on Boardgame Geek and a copy in similar condition is selling for 99 Euros! Is this accurate or is that seller way off?

Thanks in advance.

Online sales prices can be a bit hit and miss, because a lot of sellers will put inflated prices and hope someone bites.

If its basically unpunched, that greatly increases the value though. Nice find!

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Should be able to find out here.

The game looks complete, near mint. There is only that one unpunched counter sheet, which is what collectors look for.

I doubt it is worth close to 99 Euros though.

Still have mine. I used to play by mail.
Good game.

Funny. I just saturday bought a unpunched PANZER BLITZ at a yard sale.

I have the game in my collection, but the woman said she would sell it for $1 USDusd(it was marked "make me an offer") so I bought it.

Mean to say, I think of it as a rescue, as it mostlikely would have been thrown out if unsold.

Excellent Find! For collector's that an absolute Mint copy!

Now you just need to find the guy that'll pay the collector price. I'd suggest eBay since that's an international market.

where the hell you guys live where yard sales yield such fine treasures?

This is the 2nd great Avalon Hill find of mine.

2 years ago, I found a unpunched first edition GETTYSBURG! That was at a town wide yard sale(I live in a small town in the hills of north east PA.). The old woman who sold it to me said her late husband had "hundreds" of board games, but her daughter tossed them all after claiming she listed them for sale on craigs list.

This is total BS as my wife and sister in law alert me to ANY wargame stuff that surfaces there. As this womans house is about 3 blocks from my home, I would have gotten to them very quickly.

My bet is the womans daughter decided that her late fathers games were garbage, and just tossed them. The gettyburg game was in a bigger box in the attic, and she thought someone would like it.

She asked me for $3. USD Its still unpunched.

That's several years before my old copy, dated from around the same time but must have been a later print run, which had a single, fold-out four-panel board and the counters in blue and pink, plus a different AH catalogue.

Recently sold for about $20 USD or so. But it was definitely punched, and the board had been marked up with pre-1939 borders for flavor.

Congratulations. Price seems a bit unrealistic unless you find THE collector.