Trees were "expensive" at Belleclare,
a 4-5 year old fig tree would be priced at $495-695,
some even more,  some not for sale at any price.

So to see one of these trees today, 8-10+ years older
with a resell price of $800 or more,
although "expensive" for a single tree to many,
considering the rarity and age of such a specimen,
many would consider the price a bargain.

Even the old sales records indicate they were charging
$149-199 for 3 year old trees in the very early 90's,
before they became nationally known.

Actual mother trees from the nursery,
the actual trees they used to propagate cuttings from,
some still exist,  they are around 20 years old or more,
couple closer to 30 years of age.
Atreano, Petite Negre, San Pietro, Pops Purple, White Barese,
Gialina, and others still survive and flourish to this day.

I would guess there are several hundred "first generation" trees
that still exist, trees that were propagated from the mothers
and sold to customers.

I would call trees propagated from these trees as "second generation"
provenance can get murky and there might be a thousand or more of these
and potentially "third, fourth, fifth ...."  generation trees.

Guessing, I would think about 60-70% of the Belleclare list might exist
in "first generation" trees.

We might have to do a Belleclare variety head count one of these days  :-)

Belleclare Nursery

   Those price tags are from a couple of trees I purchased
from a collector a few years ago. He saved them from his purchase at Belleclare.

They were easily accessible for me, so I took a picture,
I have many more price tags from Belleclare. I guess when people paid
allot of money for the tree, they liked to save the "proof"

I have a considerable amount of ephemera from the Belleclare Nursery.

Below are some photographs from the Belleclare archives,
photos were taken by Chris Dipaola.
There are thousands of photographs, these are just a few that were
handy for me to photograph right now, notice the heavy use of lime,  enjoy.









This photograph was identified by Chris as being a Pop's Purple

Glad you enjoyed some of the documents I posted.

I have allot more to dig through and will hopefully
be able to organize most of it this winter.

I think you are making a large assumption on what happened
to the mother trees,
based on what you might on saw on your one visit to Belleclare
at closing time.
Just because you didn't see the mother trees,
does not mean they were sold,
that is an assumption on your part,
and I will leave it at that.
Figgies don't give up their babies that easily  :-)
And there was more than what was in his small backyard.

There was actually TWO "pop's trees"
two different varieties,
pops purple was one.
It still alive and well.

According to Chris,
Martha purchased 25 trees from him after
the filming of the show,
so potentially Martha has some unique specimens,
maybe she will trade cuttings, lol :-)

I'm off to China for a couple of weeks on business,
will try to post more when I return.
Time permitting on this trip,
I might make a visit to see what is supposedly
the oldest fig tree in the world, 500+ years.
The single tree takes up an entire acre of land.