What are good Collectibles to buy?

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I don’t get why VHS tapes are popular. Please explain.

VHs tapes like home videos of famous people? I could see maybe that going for a lot of money. A 1989 copy of Ghost Dad starting Bill Cosby? Maybe not so much

Back to the Future sealed, original VHS 1st edition from 1989. $75k

Bratz dolls

the best collectibles are the items that you like and wouldn't care if they lost value over time.

Facebook stock if you bought 1 year ago. It's up 70%. 70%!!!

Jeff Foxworthy: Rich people invest in stocks & bonds. Rednecks invest in commemorative plates.

Navel lint balls

Back around 1983 I purchased two James Dean films on VHS from Colony Records on Broadway; East of Eden & Rebel Without a Cause. I think they cost me about $$50 each, which for me was not cheap. I probably viewed them less that 5 times each over the years, the tapes and their cases are in immaculate condition. I sold them both on Ebay to the same buyer as a package purchase for $325.00. He seemed to be one of those completists who needed to have everything for his collection and in top condition. It may seem like a good return on my money, but considering the coast of inflation over 4 decades, at best I basically just got my money back.

Madame Alexander dolls.

Autographs - authenticated - can be worth a lot. Start collecting people who are alive now.....when they croak, the price goes up.

I have known people who collect local artists’ work. The comment, “If he dies, I’m making bank!” Has been said more than once.

I think asshole patrons are bart of the suffering for artists. Serves them right. I annoy people with artistic vision.

There are no such things as collectibles that are good investments.

Erte prints.

*smirk

Maude lunchbox

Franklin Mint!

Tools that work but make sure you use them. Same goes for kitchenware. Stuff that is well made stands the test of time.

Can I interest you in a truckload of Beanie Babies, OP?

What are good tools and kitchenwares these days? So much is made in china and made to be disposable.

Colonial duck decoys, platinum and diamond Art Deco jewelry, New York lake painters from the turn of the 19th to 20th century..

1950's and 1960's costume jewelry like your Bubbe wore to a bar mitzvah. Gaudy crap is worth a fortune. What ancient fagalas buy this stuff?

OP, do you ever look at RubyLane or 1stDibs?

Just wander in and allow an addiction to wash over you. Stay away from plates right now - that’s for when you’re jonesing at a strip mall value village.

I have never opened Disney VHS tapes, like Little Mermaid, etc. I wonder if they’re worth anything…

The general consensus I got is that eBay flooded and killed the small collectibles market, and it's never recovered.

Old Masters are holding and gaining in value, OP.

Caftans. Earrings.

Comic books!

This whole field will probably die with Gen X, if not the Boomers. Young people think nothing exists if it's not online, so as a rule they are not into collecting Stuff. Maybe some of the more spectrumy ones.

I know people who have spent thousands on collections that nobody wants now.

Nothing us regular people can afford appreciates significantly in value.

those fucking funko pop dolls or whatever they're called. I see pros getting celebs to sign those. I guess they are this century's version of benie babies

California Raisins from 1986

Maude merchandise like lunchboxes, action figures, and figure playsets.

Garbage Pail Kids merch

R22 fegeleh!

[quote]California Raisins from 1986

Aren't they moldy by now?

Cher Mego dolls from 1975

FTX Crypto coins.

All I know is, don’t believe one of those auction houses at those local shows where they ask you to take your collectibles and they tell you their worth (similar to Antiques Roadshow, on a local scale). I took a Ruth Taylor White “Wine Map Of California” I bought at an antique store for about 35 dollars. White was well known for those whimsical pictorial map lithographs of the 20s, 30, and 40s. I was told it was worthless. I just looked it up and found that at a few auction galleries it’s priced at between $1,500 and $3,000.

[quote] What are good tools and kitchenwares these days? So much is made in china and made to be disposable.

R20, depends on what you need and would use on a regular basis.

On eBay, I bought an unused set (4) of Oneida ("cube"0 Michelangelo flatware. I also bought some nice, white bread and butter plates (stoneware) that I use for snacks, small things.

Supposedly, the older Cuisinart food processors are better than what is manufactured, now. Same with the old Kitchen Aid mixers (the gears are all metal).

I wouldn't collect anything with the sole intention to re-sell it.

Madame Alexander Dolls obviously

[quote]This whole field will probably die with Gen X, if not the Boomers. Young people think nothing exists if it's not online, so as a rule they are not into collecting Stuff. Maybe some of the more spectrumy ones. I know people who have spent thousands on collections that nobody wants now.

This.

For years, my Mom was a paralegal for an elder law practice, and she frequently did estate sales for people who downsized, passed away, or moved into assisted living. Up through the ... 2010's (?) it was really good business, and you wouldn't believe the crap people would buy.

Not anymore. You can't give stuff away. Younger people (and when I say younger I mean 40's and under) just don't collect crap on the whole, and any kind of media (records, tapes, DVDs, etc.) is outdated. You may get the weird collector, but that's it.

Even comic books are digitized. You can read Marvel's entire 80+ year catalog on their app for $70 a year. Same with DC.

[Quote] whole, and any kind of media (records, tapes, DVDs, etc.) is outdated

You speak out of a misinformed ass! Vinyl LPs are collected in 2023. Look at the world outside of your ass and see…

R43 you appear to have missed a sentence

[quote]You may get the weird collector, but that's it

Vinyl isn’t a weird collector unless your vinyl is a big Liberace collection. New and vintage vinyl is popular with gen z, milleni, gem x and boomers in a big worldwide way in 2023 whether you are aware of it or not. This is FACT not fiction.

R42 is a big shut in

Beanie babies. Guaranteed return on investment!

Gold coins.

I love gold AND silver!

Tiffany favrile glass.

Oil paintings

Ask any woman who married a Wildenstein!

Buy my vintage Smurf radio. It’s pristine!

Who can afford the square footage to house a collection of anything in 2023?

Tandy desktop computers!

Turds.

Trump NFTs

Roseville Pottery

r17 that is Juliana jewelry, highly collectible by a lot of people. Most don't wear it but use it to look at or frame it and hang it on a wall. In the last few years all my Juliana has gone to China. I don't know if they are reproducing it or just collecting it.

sorry that post was meant for r22 not r17

R59 The Chinese frame old American paste. Who knew.

My mom left me a lot of costume jewelry—some Eisenberg, some Bakelite that’s about all I know. From the 1940s thru the 1960s. I’m not sure if I should sell it or where. It’s just sitting in boxes and I’m overwhelmed.

r62 If it doesn't appeal to you and you have no other family members to pass it on to sell it. You can sell on any number of places. If you post a few pics I will help you with what I can and give you a rough estimate of what it may be worth.

That is so kind of you, r63. I don’t have the courage to get to the boxes right now as I’m dealing with a death in my family and another sometime soon. But if you keep this bookmarked, I will take you up in the future on your generous offer. If not, I can try to start a thread about selling/jewelry. Thanks again; you’re a gem. :)

Aww, you both are so sweet. Good luck to you, R64.

Thank you, r65.

Costume jewelry is crap. Use it for Xmas decorations.

Roseville Futura

Anything Art Deco.

I shuttered my personal whore house at 60 so I have a couple Fenton lamps to sell and a ton of miscellaneous Marie Thérèse lustres and victorian boudoir furnishings.

Wedgewood Fairyland Lustre

Anyone want a painted ceramic Puss in Boots childrens' lamp from 1961? Has a nice half-circle lampshade too.

I have some Moorcroft, they don’t seem to lose value and look lovely.

I have sufficient, r72.

"Facebook stock if you bought 1 year ago. It's up 70%. 70%!!!"

At a time when most people haven't been there in years? Strange.

Basquiat

If it looks like a *treasure*...

Vintage electric fans, especially ones with period design (art deco, moderne, industrial. Italian ones made by Marelli and Pezzoni get pricey.

Beanie babies!

MY BOOK OF COURSE

California Raisin resin figures sold at Hardees’ during the 80s.

Love that Brexit tariffs are making continental profiteering raids difficult for the UK collectible queens.

Clarice Cliff

Erector sets

Rockwell Kent for Vernon Kilns

I like that piece at R85 and had no idea he did such collaborations.

That's from his *Our America* line, r86. I'm also partial to his Salamina...

Genuine art deco anything.

A classic...

Two words...

Ruba Rombic

that's gorgeous but a lot of uranium.

If you can do Maga/Anime figurings and such, there's a killing to be made there.

Hello Kitty personal vibrators

If they had Keroppi the frog, I'd jump on it (as it were).

Lalique Crystal.

watches