http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/defining-1980s-collectors-point Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Wed, 22 May 2013 03:31:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/defining-1980s-collectors-point/comment-page-1#comment-14387 Sara Dustin Mon, 10 May 2010 11:52:20 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490815#comment-14387 The 1980s: I was yard saleing heavily for my antiques business in the 1980s,and ,since they were so abundant and cheap, started picking up the finest, cleanest examples of kid's plastic toys from the boxes of them presented on the ground, next to the tables, and storing them away in my cellar. Now I'm glad I did, because my circus Disney character mugs and the Mc Donald's Berstein Bears Happy Meals toys are now selling---if low end---in this hard economy. Also, I love them. The ones from the 1980s are really well made and attractive. Particularly like the "changers", Mc Donalds food line items modeled in plastic that unfold into transformer style robots. Even though the stuff resonates strangely with the depression glass and linens, which is not moving at all. The 1980s: I was yard saleing heavily for my antiques business in the 1980s,and ,since they were so abundant and cheap, started picking up the finest, cleanest examples of kid’s plastic toys from the boxes of them presented on the ground, next to the tables, and storing them away in my cellar. Now I’m glad I did, because my circus Disney character mugs and the Mc Donald’s Berstein Bears Happy Meals toys are now selling—if low end—in this hard economy. Also, I love them. The ones from the 1980s are really well made and attractive. Particularly like the “changers”, Mc Donalds food line items modeled in plastic that unfold into transformer style robots. Even though the stuff resonates strangely with the depression glass and linens, which is not moving at all.

]]> http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/defining-1980s-collectors-point/comment-page-1#comment-13878 zac Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:28:32 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490815#comment-13878 the 1980's: You had Miami Vice, teal, fuchsia and mauve as you mentioned. Shoulder pads in grey euro suits, Doc Martens, Elvis clocks with the swinging legs, Kartell plastics were big, flip clocks, neon was big, especially surf wear. Vuarnets and Oakley frogskins. There were a lot of yuppy appliances like espresso and pasta machines while they were still made in Italy. The 80's were a retro 50's thing. It was from Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Oh yeah, Nagel girl prints, definitely 80's. Guys like Keith Haring were influential in the 80's, Kliban Cat was popular. Garfield and Bloom County. Max Headroom. Blondie. Mountain Bikes came on the scene in the 1980's. A Ritchey from 1982 is worth big bucks. Things were moving offshore by then. It's harder to find collectibles because people tend not to collect made in Taiwan or made in China. Back in the 70's things were still made in America, made in Denmark, Germany, Japan, etc but in the 80's that changed. That's why you can't find any good stuff. It turned to crap. There's some stuff but it was a weak decade. One more thing I've been dealing on ebay huge over the years that is decidedly 80's, balans chairs. See ya, Zac the 1980′s:
You had Miami Vice, teal, fuchsia and mauve as you mentioned. Shoulder pads in grey euro suits, Doc Martens, Elvis clocks with the swinging legs, Kartell plastics were big, flip clocks, neon was big, especially surf wear. Vuarnets and Oakley frogskins. There were a lot of yuppy appliances like espresso and pasta machines while they were still made in Italy. The 80′s were a retro 50′s thing. It was from Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Oh yeah, Nagel girl prints, definitely 80′s. Guys like Keith Haring were influential in the 80′s, Kliban Cat was popular. Garfield and Bloom County. Max Headroom. Blondie. Mountain Bikes came on the scene in the 1980′s. A Ritchey from 1982 is worth big bucks. Things were moving offshore by then. It’s harder to find collectibles because people tend not to collect made in Taiwan or made in China. Back in the 70′s things were still made in America, made in Denmark, Germany, Japan, etc but in the 80′s that changed. That’s why you can’t find any good stuff. It turned to crap. There’s some stuff but it was a weak decade. One more thing I’ve been dealing on ebay huge over the years that is decidedly 80′s, balans chairs.
See ya,
Zac

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