Most silver "art" bars are worth around melt value. But that doesn't mean they aren't popular. In fact, they have quite a following, and the prices are right. It's hard to go wrong buying silver at near melt.
However, many of the odd industrial silver bars (from any era) can bring a significant premium over melt on eBay.
Are people still colelcting those casino chips? I am not so sure how polular they ever were when there were always a few dealers tucked in the back corners of typical coin bourses a few years back.
Most silver "art" bars are worth around melt value. But that doesn't mean they aren't popular. In fact, they have quite a following, and the prices are right. It's hard to go wrong buying silver at near melt.
However, many of the odd industrial silver bars (from any era) can bring a significant premium over melt on eBay. >>
There is also a strong and growing market for many of the coins, tokens and medals made by the Franklin Mint. While few pieces are worth as much as they sold for they are very high quality lim- ited mintages and some are increasing in price.
<< <i>Are people still colelcting those casino chips? I am not so sure how polular they ever were when there were always a few dealers tucked in the back corners of typical coin bourses a few years back. >>
These, too, are hot as ever but it seems growth may have slowed.
<< <i>Those paintings by that artist Thomas Kinkaid (the one who has stores in the malls). I hear those are worth cents on the dollar.
I originally was going to say Modern coins but i won't be around to enjoy the party! >>
Here's a neat link of Kincade spoofs. Awful Thomas Kincade They have another one at that site too. >>
Kincaid angered a lot of people who bought his paintings at inflated prices at mall stores when he later sold a huge number of overstocked pictures to some chain store who got rid of them at very cheap prices.
I always thought they were cheesy looking with most of them having that light from a window look.
Roadrunner's suspicions are correct - the quality rare early (pre-WWII) baseball card market is quite strong, especially for choice condition and player. Cobb's, Wagners, Mathewson and the like are all much more now than even the heyday of the go-go 80's-90's market. Post WWII, condition rules the day even more so, and with Mantle leading the way, those cards remaining in superb gem (PSA 8-10) are still setting remarkable price records.
<< <i>I'll start: Beer cans. Popular as a collectible in the mid-1970's. Market crashed after excessive new issues by the various beer companies. >>
I had a great beer can collection in the 80's. I had over 500 cans. I bagged them up when I had to move to Florida and sold them for $0.50 a can. There were some rare ones, but I had to move in a hurry. I was deatly ill and needed to move where someone could take care of me. Then the bottom fell out of beer cans and I wasn't that sorry I sold them for what I did. It took several bags and boxes to hold them all and no way I could fit them in the car to drive to Florida.
Pez dispensers were really "hot" for a while. I have several of those that, at one time, were worth quite a bit. eBay was basically started to sell Pez dispensers. I still buy them once in a while. Hahaha!
Jonathan
I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
I still have a book I put my matchbook covers in. It is fun to look back on them and the places I went or my friends went. Everyone knew I was a matchbook collector and they would bring me books from places they went. Since smoking is so frowned upon now, there are not very many matchbooks being given out anymore. Sad, really.
Jonathan
I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
I had four great collections before I went off to do my PhD and left them at my folks' place for safe keeping, my mistake.
-The coin and currency collection was stolen. -My huge Beatles LP collection (every American/British/German/Dutch/....) were sold in a yard sale by my mom for a quarter a piece. Now there's an argument for matricide. -Beer can collection of variable quality numbering in the same neighborhood, hundreds of flat and cone tops.........discarded at the landfill. -Ah my stamp collection, including some great triangles and very early Australian issues. I rescued it. Stopped to see a friend in South Philly on the way to the airport and someone popped the trunk and stole everything in there. Police recovered a lot of things, but not the stamps except for some lousy first day covers. At least the insurance company would pay catalogue prices for the stamps in the claim.
Yeah, bottlecaps, banana stickers, returnable Coke bottles with the original bottler's city on the bottom, matchbooks -- Pep Boys was the best for a juvenile boy with a hole punch, S&H green stamps, NFL stickers from the gas station the season Dallas and Miami were in the Superbowl, license plates, car chrome (I had a lot of great model plates from classic cars at the scrapyard), National Geographic magazines (more people collected them before there was cable TV and the Internet), and the list goes on.
I remember back in High School, everybody had to have Yo-Yo's, Duncan Butterfly, etc...
There was one kid who had all of the Yo-Yo's, I believe he even spent over $100 on a couple of his Yo-Yo's. And he was really good! He did all of these crazy tricks, and he thereafter referred to as Yo-Yo Master.
Maybe it was just popular in my School?? >>
We had some guy come to our junior high school and he did Yo-Yo tricks. After the show, everyone in school bought them. Finally the school had to ban them from the school as people were bringing them and practicing tricks all the time.
Jonathan
I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
<< <i>Yeah, bottlecaps, banana stickers, returnable Coke bottles with the original bottler's city on the bottom, matchbooks -- Pep Boys was the best for a juvenile boy with a hole punch, S&H green stamps, NFL stickers from the gas station the season Dallas and Miami were in the Superbowl, license plates, car chrome (I had a lot of great model plates from classic cars at the scrapyard), National Geographic magazines (more people collected them before there was cable TV and the Internet), and the list goes on. >>
I wasn't aware these were ever popular. I've got a few set aside. Also have some Easter seals which are surprisingly affordable all the way back to the 1930's.
<< <i>Those paintings by that artist Thomas Kinkaid (the one who has stores in the malls). I hear those are worth cents on the dollar. >>
They always were.
How about Precious Moments crap. Back in the early 90s when I was house shopping, one of the places we checked out had a big cabinet full of those awful things. There was even a PM convention nearby.
<< <i>Are people still colelcting those casino chips? I am not so sure how polular they ever were when there were always a few dealers tucked in the back corners of typical coin bourses a few years back. >>
I don't think vintage baseball cards carry nearly the weight that they did six to seven years ago. I feel they are grossly over-rated and over valued. JMHO.
Collected telephone insulators for years had about 800 in all colors yellow, purple, green, blue, carnival glass, milk glass, etc... got to heavy to keep moving sold them about 10 years ago but kept about a dozen of my favorites.
Some people collect dirt - small bottles of it from various parts of the US or the world for that matter. All dirt is not the same and has certain distictions that people understand and learn about.
Water is another collectable, usually from famous rivers like the Potomac, Mississippi, Suwannee etc. Just fill up a little jar and label it.
Telephone cards. A major effort was made to promote these between roughly 1993 and 1997. The effort was a near total failure. I seem to recall at least one coin dealer who got into them heavily eventually went bankrupt.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback.
<< <i>Telephone cards. A major effort was made to promote these between roughly 1993 and 1997. The effort was a near total failure. I seem to recall at least one coin dealer who got into them heavily eventually went bankrupt.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback. >>
I have a hunch that all of the electronic media cards are going to be highly sought after someday. I don't have many set aside but I've got a few very unusual ones.
<< <i>Telephone cards. A major effort was made to promote these between roughly 1993 and 1997. The effort was a near total failure. I seem to recall at least one coin dealer who got into them heavily eventually went bankrupt.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback. >>
I have a hunch that all of the electronic media cards are going to be highly sought after someday. I don't have many set aside but I've got a few very unusual ones.
We may not live to see it though. >>
Many of the numismatic related telephone cards had very low printings. Some of the ones I have are the June, 1996 IPMS (Memphis); July, 1996 Greater Chicago Coin Expo; Feb., 1997 Long Beach Expo; March, 1997 ANA Cleveland; June, 1997 Long Beach Expo; June, 1997 Mid-American Coin Convention and November, 1997 Michigan State Numismatic Society. I'm still holding my breath...any action yet?
I think record albums have seen their day and will eventually not be worth much. It is amazing that back in the 1070s, 1980s, and early 1990s, record collectors were everywhere. There were record shows and everything. When CDs came to life, all that seemed to have fallen apart.
World's Fair memorabilia. One of my most cherished possessions is a (1964-65) NYC World's Fair ID braclet that my Dad gave me for my 9th birthday. The back was inscribed "Love Dad, September 24, 1964". My father was a NYC cop at the time and worked undercover at the World's Fair. He has since passed away and that little ID braclet (with it's cheesy World's Fair insignia on the front) hold's a special place in my heart.
Mom threw out my early 60's baseball cards when I was in college - never even asked.
this appears to be a common thread and maybe a maternal conspiracy!! Same thing happened to me. Butall that time I was fearing the school teachers who with their ninja like skills would appear out of nowhere to confiscate my cards. Of course this was right after I won 2 fistfulls of brand new cards from flipping newbies. AH, those were the days!
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<< <i>Beer cans and silver bars.
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Most silver "art" bars are worth around melt value. But that doesn't mean they aren't popular. In fact, they have quite a following, and the prices are right. It's hard to go wrong buying silver at near melt.
However, many of the odd industrial silver bars (from any era) can bring a significant premium over melt on eBay.
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<< <i>Old bottles and war medals. >>
The old bottle market tanked once but I'm not sure military tokens, medals and the like has ever been more popular.
<< <i>
I originally was going to say Modern coins but i won't be around to enjoy the party! >>
You can say it but I know the better moderns have never been more popular or higher priced.
<< <i>
<< <i>Beer cans and silver bars.
>>
Most silver "art" bars are worth around melt value. But that doesn't mean they aren't popular. In fact, they have quite a following, and the prices are right. It's hard to go wrong buying silver at near melt.
However, many of the odd industrial silver bars (from any era) can bring a significant premium over melt on eBay. >>
There is also a strong and growing market for many of the coins, tokens and medals made by the
Franklin Mint. While few pieces are worth as much as they sold for they are very high quality lim-
ited mintages and some are increasing in price.
<< <i>Are people still colelcting those casino chips? I am not so sure how polular they ever were when there were always a few dealers tucked in the back corners of typical coin bourses a few years back. >>
These, too, are hot as ever but it seems growth may have slowed.
<< <i>
<< <i>Those paintings by that artist Thomas Kinkaid (the one who has stores in the malls). I hear those are worth cents on the dollar.
I originally was going to say Modern coins but i won't be around to enjoy the party! >>
Here's a neat link of Kincade spoofs. Awful Thomas Kincade They have another one at that site too. >>
Kincaid angered a lot of people who bought his paintings at inflated prices at mall stores when he later sold a huge
number of overstocked pictures to some chain store who got rid of them at very cheap prices.
I always thought they were cheesy looking with most of them having that light from a window look.
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<< <i>pokemon cards! Guess what?
Thanks. Gotta edit this one.
<< <i>I'll start: Beer cans. Popular as a collectible in the mid-1970's. Market crashed after excessive new issues by the various beer companies. >>
I had a great beer can collection in the 80's. I had over 500 cans. I bagged them up when I had to move to Florida and sold them for $0.50 a can. There were some rare ones, but I had to move in a hurry. I was deatly ill and needed to move where someone could take care of me. Then the bottom fell out of beer cans and I wasn't that sorry I sold them for what I did. It took several bags and boxes to hold them all and no way I could fit them in the car to drive to Florida.
Pez dispensers were really "hot" for a while. I have several of those that, at one time, were worth quite a bit. eBay was basically started to sell Pez dispensers. I still buy them once in a while. Hahaha!
Jonathan
<< <i>match book covers
foutain pens >>
I still have a book I put my matchbook covers in. It is fun to look back on them and the places I went or my friends went. Everyone knew I was a matchbook collector and they would bring me books from places they went. Since smoking is so frowned upon now, there are not very many matchbooks being given out anymore. Sad, really.
Jonathan
-The coin and currency collection was stolen.
-My huge Beatles LP collection (every American/British/German/Dutch/....) were sold in a yard sale by my mom for a quarter a piece. Now there's an argument for matricide.
-Beer can collection of variable quality numbering in the same neighborhood, hundreds of flat and cone tops.........discarded at the landfill.
-Ah my stamp collection, including some great triangles and very early Australian issues. I rescued it. Stopped to see a friend in South Philly on the way to the airport and someone popped the trunk and stole everything in there. Police recovered a lot of things, but not the stamps except for some lousy first day covers. At least the insurance company would pay catalogue prices for the stamps in the claim.
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Baseball cards are still hot. I sold a dozen or more cards this year for over a grand each.
I have one of those collectable (?) Jim Beam bottles. It was a gift.
All my stamps are worthless.
I still regret being forced (by my mom) to sell my comic collection when we moved back when I was a kid. (Grrrrr!)
I had a matchbook collection, it was pitiful.
NOBODY has mentioned bottle caps. I had a many different ones. That was from back when you needed a bottle opener, no twist offs in my collection.
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<< <i>Yo-Yo's?
I remember back in High School, everybody had to have Yo-Yo's, Duncan Butterfly, etc...
There was one kid who had all of the Yo-Yo's, I believe he even spent over $100 on a couple of his Yo-Yo's.
And he was really good! He did all of these crazy tricks, and he thereafter referred to as Yo-Yo Master.
Maybe it was just popular in my School??
We had some guy come to our junior high school and he did Yo-Yo tricks. After the show, everyone in school bought them. Finally the school had to ban them from the school as people were bringing them and practicing tricks all the time.
Jonathan
<< <i>Yeah, bottlecaps, banana stickers, returnable Coke bottles with the original bottler's city on the bottom, matchbooks -- Pep Boys was the best for a juvenile boy with a hole punch, S&H green stamps, NFL stickers from the gas station the season Dallas and Miami were in the Superbowl, license plates, car chrome (I had a lot of great model plates from classic cars at the scrapyard), National Geographic magazines (more people collected them before there was cable TV and the Internet), and the list goes on. >>
I wasn't aware these were ever popular. I've got a few set aside. Also have some Easter seals which are surprisingly affordable all the way back to the 1930's.
<< <i>Those paintings by that artist Thomas Kinkaid (the one who has stores in the malls). I hear those are worth cents on the dollar. >>
They always were.
How about Precious Moments crap. Back in the early 90s when I was house shopping, one of the places we checked out had a big cabinet full of those awful things. There was even a PM convention nearby.
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<< <i>Are people still colelcting those casino chips? I am not so sure how polular they ever were when there were always a few dealers tucked in the back corners of typical coin bourses a few years back. >>
Indeed they do!!
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and has certain distictions that people understand and learn about.
Water is another collectable, usually from famous rivers like the Potomac, Mississippi, Suwannee etc. Just fill up a little jar and label it.
The Pez collection is one of the highlights of the town.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
Mom threw out my early 60's baseball cards when I was in college - never even asked.
My stamp collection is worth nearly nothing.
And I am happy I got rid of all my cone top beer cans before the bottom fell out.
But coins - at least I am still having fun with them.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
1. Paper cigar bands;
2. Wood cigar boxes;
3. Metal cigar and cigaette boxes;
4. Car hood ornaments;
5. Bubble gum wrappers;
6. CrackerJack prizes;
7. Cereal boxes;
8. Fast food restaurant promotional toys;
9. Beer and Sode Bottle Caps;
10. Tipparillos (as in the leggy, buxom, cute girl in the 40's & 50's night club, dance hall hawking "Cigars, Cigarettes, Tipparillos");
11. Records;
12. Airline Travel bags, stewardess caps, and pilot's wings;
13. Cancelled passenger train tickets;
14. Old railroad spikes;
15. Barbed wire;
16. Vintage gas station pumps;
17. Space flight patches for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space flights;
18. Political campaign buttons and other items; and
19. Movie posters.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback.
<< <i>Telephone cards. A major effort was made to promote these between roughly 1993 and 1997. The effort was a near total failure. I seem to recall at least one coin dealer who got into them heavily eventually went bankrupt.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback. >>
I have a hunch that all of the electronic media cards are going to be highly sought after someday. I don't have many set aside but I've got a few very unusual ones.
We may not live to see it though.
<< <i>
<< <i>Telephone cards. A major effort was made to promote these between roughly 1993 and 1997. The effort was a near total failure. I seem to recall at least one coin dealer who got into them heavily eventually went bankrupt.
I still have several of the numismatic telephone cards. I'm holding my breath while waiting for them to make a big comeback. >>
I have a hunch that all of the electronic media cards are going to be highly sought after someday. I don't have many set aside but I've got a few very unusual ones.
We may not live to see it though. >>
Many of the numismatic related telephone cards had very low printings. Some of the ones I have are the June, 1996 IPMS (Memphis); July, 1996 Greater Chicago Coin Expo; Feb., 1997 Long Beach Expo; March, 1997 ANA Cleveland;
June, 1997 Long Beach Expo; June, 1997 Mid-American Coin Convention and November, 1997 Michigan State Numismatic Society. I'm still holding my breath...any action yet?
<< <i> I'm still holding my breath...any action yet? >>
Not much. You'll still see a few classified ads to buy sell and trade them but there is no apparent mass market yet.
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