Rare Vinyl From The Heartland (9/4/08)
Last night, I met up with Mike Garber, WorthPoint’s vinyl record Worthologist and owner of Zero Street Records in Omaha, NE to see how things were going in the record collecting world. Mike just returned from a buying trip in Colorado and said that he had a good time finding records for the store and for trade. More >>

Jukebox EPs (9/4/08)
Recently, I purchased a collection of vintage jukebox EPs dating from the mid 60′s to early 70′s. These EPs differ from regular 45s, in that they had small spindle holes and played at 33 1/3 rpm. They would contain four to six tracks from any given artist’s album and were not sold to the general public. More >>

Bootlegs (9/4/08)
I think everyone who is a collector has something as part of their colletion that they have no real justifacation for owning. For me, it’s old bootleg albums. I’ve accumulated over 250 of these things in the past few years and god knows why…I never listen to them. Regardless, their history and taboo nature in the record collecting field is pretty facinating. More >>

$3 Million Record Auction (9/4/08)
Every once in a while, there is a collector-related story that receives major media attention, yet, gets a collective moan from a majority of collectors that it should be most relevant to. Remember that Velvet Underground acetate that “sold” on Ebay for over $150,000? More >>

Pam Grier Collectibles Attract Varied Interest (9/4/08)
Pam Grier told an audience at Winston Salem’s 2008 Riverrun International Film Festival that when she went to meet director Quentin Tarantino, he told her he had written a movie with her in mind. More >>

Lon Chaney Collectible Poster Turns Up In Sub Shop (9/4/08)
It’s not unusual to discover movie poster collectibles in unlikely locations. This time, the Phantom was hanging out in a sub shop. More >>

The Rocket Man and Me (9/4/08)
Years ago, in 1954, when I was 7 or 8, I saw a little film called “The Rocket Man,” at the Columbia Theatre in the small town where I grew up. I was about the same age as the young boy, played by George “Foghorn” Winslow, known for his gravelly voice. More >>

Incredible Leonard Schrader Lobby Card Collection Sells (9/4/08)
One of the most amazing American collections of movie memorabilia known has sold to an as-yet unnamed foreign buyer. More >>

The condition of movie paper–and how it affects prices (9/4/08)
Let’s start with the absolute basics: all serious collectors desire items that are as near perfect as possible, and the closer to perfect an item is, the higher the price it can command. More >>

Unprecedented movie memorbilia collection to be auctioned in December (9/4/08)
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a movie memorbilia collection some say is second only to that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be auctioned off in mid-December of this year. More >>