Comments on: Collector’s Minute: Changing Times and Market Trends

By: Mike Wilcox

Mike Wilcox — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:56:26 +0000

The article actually does cover other items and trends past and present, including furniture, coca cola memorabilia, sports cards,television memorabilia and comic books. The articles tend to focus on single items to illustrate the point of the article, the case in point for this article being Trends, fads and value.

By: Susan Busa

Susan Busa — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:50:42 +0000

I found this article rather lacking in any value unless your are fortunate enough to own one of these two lunch boxes. I thought the writer would go into some detail on a variety of antiques and their holding value instead of generalizing on the markets ups and downs as we all know is the case.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:37:26 +0000

Lately, I see a number of items at local thrift shops that I can now afford since e-Bay has driven down the prices and current trends are leaving such items in the dust. Once considered hard to find (not the case any more) there is also much less demand for these items.
Happily for me, Wedgwood plates and boxes of the lovely jasper ware kind with the white decoration against a darker background, are showing up for pennies compared to what they cost originally for retail sale, not to mention the crazy prices asked for Wedgwood at antique shows. These items are much too beautiful to stay down for long in my eye. I would be happy to have a room full of them and now I can afford them!!

By: Joyce Rau

Joyce Rau — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:16:45 +0000

Great points mad by Bill. For three years I have been taking antique research and collectible classes at a local high school. How soon I learned that everything I had been collecting was just junk. Take beanie babies for example, one would be lucky to get back what they paid for them. My kids wanted to hang on to them but won’t live long enough to see their rise again. We donated them to a childrens hospital, who were glad to have them. I agree with what Bill says, in most cases finding the manufacturer is key identification and value. Research is a real eye opener. Thanks

By: Bill Castle

Bill Castle — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:41:40 +0000

The items from the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s are now seeing the rise in value. Nostalgia collectors are always buying their childhood. Sometimes, that includes buying items they saw in their parent’s or grandparent’s houses growing up.

Some items vary in price through the generations, but never bottom out. These are true classics, items which have intrinsic artistic value. I suspect there are items added to this list by every generation.

The “made in China” issue effecting so many other areas of collecting are going to have negative repercussions on future collecting of items from this period. To be collectible, it is very useful for an item to be traceable to a manufacturer. That doesn’t happen as much right now. Perhaps this will improve as time passes.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:01:11 +0000

Oh so true. Items my parents collected in the 60s and 70s are of little interest to people of my generation (Boomer) and younger. If it no longer appeals to you, sell it now. There’s no guarantee than anything you keep will continue to hold value, much less increase.