"What non "Collectibe related businesss have you seen at coin shows.
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At the coin show in Santa Clara , CA they had a bath tube refitter .and artifical grass vendors.
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I've seen antiquities sold at coin shows, but no artificial turf or bath tubs!
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About 30 years ago there was a young lady? who approached me in the parking lot at a coin show. It was all coin related to a certain extent. You know, like,......coins would be exchanging hands, but it wasn't exactly directly related to what was transpiring on the brouse floor........ If you get my drift.
Someone was selling what appeared to be Native American artifacts at a Long Beach show.
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There's a fairly large dealer that sells ancient artifacts such as scarabs, spear points, oil lamps, jewelry, etc.
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About 20 yr ago a really pretty blonde Cali woman came by my table at a show called me couple days later (evening) about coming over help her son about his world coins collection. She had a very pleasant voice super Cali accent, seemed well off about 40 miles west of me. I was commuting 45 south to work MBA Sr Cost Analyst and dead tired, drained from 12 hr day. I recommended they get Krause catalog. In retrospect wish had asked her meetup somewhere drinks /dinner somewhere half way or near me. Then c what really is up. I recall a dealer / coin club friend I shared tables with after relaying incident telling me “I don’t think that is about coins.”
Sharks teeth, fossils, jewelry, baseball cards, arrow heads... all in the last week.
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Bee keeping supplies, dolls, beanie babies, ammunition boxes, pet adoption, precious metal IRAs, coin-shaped candy and molds, knock-off watches.....other assorted junk dragged in from flea markets.
I saw a woman sitting with her husband trying to sell what I think was Avon products at the LBCS a few years ago
I've bought a number of non coin (but collectables I guess) related items at several coin shows. I bought a football signed by Joe Namath, a baseball signed by most of the ~1980's Houston Astros, a 1963 mint condition Mickey Mantel baseball card and last year I picked up a like new March 1990 issue of Playboy. a.k.a. "The Trump Presidential edition"
At the Dalton Show, I did see a coin dealer from Texas with nothing but proof sets.
Probably 50+ in a case with the remainder of the case with slabbed proofs.
Seemed odd to come from Texas with just those to offer.
Maybe he was there only to buy?
He had quite a few visitors waiting behind me and I got the impression he had cherrypicked them already.
I yielded to the onlookers since it was almost time to head to the airport.
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Windows and gutters.
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One coin show I was at had Basement Insulation Panels that you put up if you had an ugly wall you wanted to Hide. or maybe they had them there so you could hide your Safe?? don't know they didn't even have anybody there just wanted to fill that empty bourse space!
Is that issue of Playboy still "like new"?
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Usually antiques, but the oddest I have seen is storm windows on sale at the Denver show.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
There are many terrific things to collect. There are dealers that sell coins, politicals, stock and bond certificates and just historical things that extend beyond a sentence description. My advise is simple... Enjoy having the opportunity to see stuff like this because you may rarely have the chance to see it again. And that exposure just may leave enough of an impression that you may undertake the challenge of collecting something you had not thought of until you actually saw it in hand.
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Small toys,Cereal premiums,pocket knives, baseball cards. Items that will fit in a display case
At my local monthly show several years ago I saw a person sell one of the regular dealers several thousand rounds of ammo. Had to bring it in on a flatbed cart. Probably not that weird if you think about it. Saw the same dealer selling ammo a short time later at a show in Dalton, GA.
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Around here jewelry, sports cards, political memorabilia.
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How is the Santa Clara show? I wanted to go but I am on crutches after recent toe surgery, hope you had a good time there, thanks
It seems like the show has been on the decline with each show have less dealers it seems and the two business unreleated guess it pays the bills. Guess even the US Mint figured out that setting up a few shows back was not worth ii as the food concession as well.
It was the same dealers as before. Witter coins had on display a 1943 S Bronze Lincoln Cent.
Attendence seemed really light on Friday,
Lots of jewelry !!!
I have seen jewelry, arrow heads, scarabs and baseball cards at coin shows... the jewelry was usually being sold by the wife of a coin dealer at the same table....Cheers, RickO
Went to a show after returning to the US and hoped to buy some early 20th century medals, this was the only thing I left the show with - a Parrott gun shell that was dug up in Port Hudson Louisiana, the battle raged there from 22 May to 9th July 1863 and was part of the Vicksburg campaign. The detonator on this one failed as they often did and had to be defused after it was dug up. It weighs more than 20 lbs.
At FUN one year there was a guy selling printed music memorabilia like posters and ticket stubs from all sorts of bands. I was overjoyed to score a mint Grateful Dead ticket stub to a show I attended once. I fact, I can’t remember one particular coin I bought that year but that framed stub hangs on my wall to this day.
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To be fair, the blanks did have old nickels soldered into them.
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Jewelry, rocks, and a display where you could pan for gold.
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I would say hands down jewelry is the biggest other item.
The funniest I have heard of was an old time dealer who has passed I knew. Heard about it later folks wanted to kick him out of a show for having a full table piled high with socks for sale!!!!
Nothing different than what has already been mentioned at coin shows, but there was someone from Verizon selling FIOS internet home service at a sports card show in Massachusetts.
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Thanks for the update