And, of course, any of those items on ebay and elsewhere, new or used,
with or without a box or a label, automatically becomes NOS "Nice Old
Stuff".
Bill
ZoboHerald@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/23/2003 12:35:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Ryoung@navcomtech.com writes:
>
>
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>>...I've had sellers argue that
>>anything that's been on the shelf for over a year is "NOS" ... sometimes
>>when it isn't even the right brand !
>>
>>
>
>Technically, some such items might better be labeled as "NORS" or New Old
>REPLACEMENT Stock. A genuine Lucas lens in an old red and black box would be
>NOS. (The same genuine Lucas lens in a current green Lucas box is just a new
>part; eventually it might become sort of "NOS"!) An old Beck-Arnley "replica"
>of that same Lucas lens would be NORS.
>
>--Andy Mace
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