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I've just been on a streak lately of checking out the value of old things I own, and was wondering if anyone else had anything to list that would be interesting. It can be original LP vinyls, Laserdiscs, comics, toys, paintings, entertainment memorabilia, movie props, anything... I'm really interested to see what everyone has to say.
I have an ancient paid of Staffordshire dogs that sit on my mantle A ceramic chicken and rooster that sit in my kitchen from the 30's and a pair of candlestick holders that are Dutch from around the same time. Plus - I collect antiques
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Post by oatmealschnappz on Apr 16, 2007 15:31:07 GMT -5
I have a couple of rarities.
Original "Popeye" movie sndtrk LP (mint) Original Gwar "Hello" red vinyl (only 200 copies printed) (mint) Original Village People "Macho Man" picture disc (autographed & unopened) Original "Deep Throat" sndtrk LP (mint) Original Rabbit In The Moon "Phases Of An Out Of Body Experience" LP Original Rob Swift "Soulful Fruit" LP (mint) Original "Lessons Live" LP (featuring Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, Double Dee & Steinski, Q Bert...) Original Kid Koala "ScratchHappyLand" 10" ep (banned) (mint) Original Jimpster "Martain Arts" LP (mint) Original "Futre Primite Sound Session" Live cd (featuring Cut Chemist & Shortkut) Original "Rhinestone" sndtrk Lp (mint) Origianl Jackie Chan "? (I can't read Japanese)" LP (mint) Original Orbital "Halcyon" 12" single (mint)
"EraserHead" Autographed DVD ( open but never played)
Maybe not "valuable" in the traditional sense but, very valuable to me!
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All my valuables are of the autograph variety. I used to collect sports cards like a fiend, back in the day. I have quite a few autographed. These are a few......
Mike Mussina Mo Vaughn Joe Montana Mike Singletary Hershel Walker Reggie White Charles Barkley Richard Hamilton
If anyone wants one of these I'd be more than happy to part with one or all of them. It's so hard to unload old sports cards.
Danbird, you should go to a memorabilia show/auction where that one guy buys people's entires collections. I know that describing someone as "that one guy" doesn't really help, but he is famous for having one of the largest card collections in the world.
I've thought about selling my dad's collection of baseball/basketball sets from '68-'75, but I think my mom would murder me.
I have an original 'Capitol label' copy of Sgt. Peppers which was bought less than a week after its release. It's certainly not in mint condition, but there aren't any skips.
in the 'rarity' column... I still have - and use daily - a circa 1965 Midland solid-state stereophonic receiver. They don't make 'em like they used to.
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Apr 16, 2007 21:07:53 GMT -5
Rookie LaDainian Tomlinson card, rookie Willis McGahee, rookie Clinton Portis, rookie Ken Griffey Sr., and my favorite, a rookie Ronnie Lott card. I too used to collect a lot of sports cards, but have eased up a bit. Got a bunch more too.
Post by spookymonster on Apr 16, 2007 21:16:12 GMT -5
I had approximately 5k Magic:The Gathering cards that I'd bought in 1994, right before it hit big. Kept them in pristine condition all these years. Finally went thru them this past February. Several cards were worth over $150 a piece; the most valuable one fetched $400. All told, I made just over $3k for about 2 weeks work.
My friend has a slightly better collection (maybe $4-5k, by my estimates). I've been trying to convince her to let me sell it (40/60 split, I figure), but she's been too lazy to get them out of her attic.
yeah, i have THOUSANDS of sportscard under my bed. I used to be WAY into collecting but the insert cards just killed it. I can't decide whether to keep them for my son or just sell them.
I have a bg26 first printing type B. It's Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane poster at the fillmore 9/2-9/5, 1966. I have a little poster collection going, and that one is my favorite. All Bill Graham and Family Dog stuff.
Almost forgot my autographed Zappa "Sheik Yerbouti" I really need a bar to hang all the crap I've got.
Post by poopzilla33 on Apr 17, 2007 10:53:43 GMT -5
when is was young i loved comics so i ahve some nice comics. my uncle doesn't work anymore he just sells his old comics, and for every birthday he gives me a rare one. this year he gave me all of crisis on infinate earths. i also own the comic where frank miller drew daredevil for the first tiem, and all of secret wars (including the first appearance of spidermans black costume). i don't have any rediculous 100,000$ comics but i have a feeling in the future my collection will be worth at least that
I have a ton of UK punk 7" vinyl which I should go through one day and a Complete Control T-shirt that Joe Strummer gave me. It would be more valuable to me if I hadn't added 40lbs in the meantime...
Also: - PiL's Metal Box, in the Metal Box - Klark Kent (Stewart Copeland), Don't Care on green vinyl ( I should should try that on eBay with the renewed interest in The Police) - Joy Division's 12" Atmosphere on translucent purple vinyl - Bow Wow Wow's Flick Pack Pop in the cigarette box packaging and more...
When I was around 9-14 years old, I collected Baseball cards fanatically. Almost every day after school my mother would drop me off at the local Sports Cards store and I would spend every penny of my allowance (less than $5 a week if I remember correctly), and annoy the living sh*t out of the owner. That man took soooo much money from me over the years, that he probably put up with me for that exact reason.
Well, I ended up getting him back on two fateful afternoons in 1996.
There was a box of cards that he was selling for .75 per pack, and me being the broke little kid I was, I bought a few. After opening the first one, I proceded with the second and noticed a strange looking card sitting atop the rest. I stared at it for a moment and then realized what I had found: An AUTOGRAPHED Mickey Mantle card worth (today) about $800. I said "Hey look what I got," still not knowing the full impact of my find. he FREAKED THE F*UCK out and, red faced, congratulated me. He offered to give me boxes and boxes of cards in exchange for the autograph, but I replied "No thank you," and walked out the door.
A great story, but it doesn't end there...
A week later, a friend of mine was in town. He was around the same age, and into collecting cards as well. So we were hanging out at the card shop for about 30 minutes before he had spent the entirety of his allowance and was ready to go. I was still looking around for a little while, so he asked me if he could borrow enough change to get a pack. I agreed, and 5 minutes later, he opened a pack of the same cards and found the same AUTOGRAPHED MICKEY MANTLE!
Now, the odds of finding ONE was something like 1:250,000 packs. We had found TWO from THE SAME BOX of cards.
The owner got really flushed after that. Hooting and hollering. He grabbed the box of remaining packs and started ripping every one of them open. And he didn't find a thing. Serves the bastard right.
I've been kicking myself for years for loaning my friend that money.
The card resides in my safety deposit box to this day.
"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." -- Marcel Duchamp
As well as the baseball card mentioned above, I have quite a few movie props laying around the house. My father was a special fx and set construction guy, and my mother was an on-set nurse. They worked on Fried Green Tomatos, Robocop 2, The War, In the Heat of the Night, Looters, Backdraft, and quite a few others.
Along with the few autographs and props, I have a bunch of stories as well.
As a kid, I was able to get paid as an extra in a made-for-tv-movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from Bewitched). Little did I know, but the kids that I was hanging out all day while on-set were Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose father was directing the film.
My fater often told me about a Rod Stewart video he worked on, meeting Hulk Hogan, and the secrets of making fake blood look real.
My mom has told me about working with pre-X-Files David Duchovney (who was very nice), and pulling a splinter from the hand of the then unknown, young Brad Pitt. "He was cute, but he didn't seem that spectacular," she has always claimed.
The funniest thing by-far was her impressions of these 2 rappers she worked with who were trying to get into film: Ice-T & Ice-Cube!
"They were so mean," she would always say, "All they ever say is 'motherf*cking this and motherf*uck that."
"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." -- Marcel Duchamp
Post by jambandjohn on Apr 17, 2007 20:46:04 GMT -5
My grand dad was the cargo master on the USS United States back in the fifties. He took care of the personal belongings belonging to VIPs traveling between the US and Europe and often received "thankyou" gifts for his services. One ironic gift (which I now own) was a rifle with a telescopic sight given to him by Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, father of the future president...
Issue 1 volume 1 of The Rolling Stone First John Byrne drawn X-Men Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, origina ps1 package, not greatest hit Suikoden 2 Penguin action figure from Batman: The Animated Series First Sabretooth appearance Marvel Heroes, 9-11 tribute, magazine size, first printing, autographs from all artists/writers involved. Old Beatles bobbleheads Original copies of most Beatles albums (some in awful condition, some in good) other stuff I can't remember.
^ ha, funny story about that one: When I lived in Mississippi, I went to the comic shop down the street and it was in the DOLLAR BIN! Guy that ran the shop was kinda a slacker and never categorized anything according to value, except reallyold and really brand new stuff. I found a ton of other gems for a dollar there as well: Gambit's first appearance, Mystique's first appearance, formentioned John Byrne comic, Rogue's first, issue one of the first Wolverine mini-series. Iknow, I'm a nerd/geek/spaz.
Post by poopzilla33 on Apr 17, 2007 23:04:53 GMT -5
^wow some fantastic finds. like i said earlier in this thread. my uncle doesn't have to work anymore, he just lives off his old comics, so they're def worth investing in
Oh, that's right, the symbiote is in the new movie, yeah man, I'd hang on to that! That's one I don't have, but I do have the first full appearance of Venom, drawn by Todd McFarlande, that one I actually had to shell out over 70 dollars for, but I feel it'll be worth it someday, maybe soon with the movie. BTW, is Venom supposed to be in this one?
Post by magnoliabread on Apr 18, 2007 22:01:52 GMT -5
bos1969 said:
I have a few things that are interesting
I have an ancient paid of Staffordshire dogs that sit on my mantle A ceramic chicken and rooster that sit in my kitchen from the 30's and a pair of candlestick holders that are Dutch from around the same time. Plus - I collect antiques
That's cool - - my family also has a pair of Staffordshire dogs! They were acquired somehow circa the civil war, and then passed down in the family to the youngest son each time. Which pissed me off to no avail growing up, since I was a girl.
Post by lizardking0729 on Apr 18, 2007 22:08:56 GMT -5
mothersky said:
Nice, especially At Lorley.
Yeah its worth a few hundred but I doubt I would ever sell it...if only I had my turntable still working, I need to get that fixed and listen to that album, maybe i will go out and do that right now...
