Collecting

[Dujon]

I used to collect postcards plus the obligatory stamp collection that we children compiled in those days. I know that one of my stamps Gibbons valued at over $400 some twenty-odd years ago so I'd like to find where I've stored the album! I do still have two Senior Service albums - complete with tassels - fully populated, and a pile of unmounted duplicates. These are cigarette cards with proper photographs displayed. I have no idea as to their age but I'd guess at 60+ years. I doubt that they're worth much but are certainly interesting to browse from time to time.

Like others who have posted I do have a penchant for keeping things 'because they might come in useful'. They rarely do. My wife and I recently had a clean out of the garage and my workshop and my two other storage areas; it's amazing what one collects. Still, I made a couple of thousand dollars from the exercise so I'm not complaining and Mrs D is positively beaming.

Mind you, I raised with my wife the subject of what I might collect to fill the huge amount of space we have cleared. All I received in response was a stony silence and a stare that would frighten the devil. It looks like my collecting days are well and truly over.

[2399]

I now have 6 WCW or nWo Nitro Streetrods.

I have nWo Giant & Konnan and WCW Disco Inferno.

There were 5 at the Collectors Fair; I didn't get WCW Larry Zbyszko and Someone Biggs.

I got nWo Kevin Nash, WCW Booker T and Raven

[keveh]

I'm a completist for DVD trilogy series etc (LOTR and Star Wars etc)

Do you buy the box sets? I'be always been tempted to build up a collection but you never know when to buy them.

With things like LOTR you know its finished, so you can go and buy the trilogy. But with TV shows for example, you could buy a box set one year and then they'll bring out another the year after when another series is available.

[hisroyalgingerness]

Doctor Who DVDs, not missing many of those. And that's after replacing the VHS's...

[TANGODANCER]

I used to collect postcards plus the obligatory stamp collection that we children compiled in those days. I know that one of my stamps Gibbons valued at over $400 some twenty-odd years ago so I'd like to find where I've stored the album! I do still have two Senior Service albums - complete with tassels - fully populated, and a pile of unmounted duplicates. These are cigarette cards with proper photographs displayed. I have no idea as to their age but I'd guess at 60+ years. I doubt that they're worth much but are certainly interesting to browse from time to time.

Stamps, football cards (including those pics from the back of Turf Cigarettes, big heads, little bodies, Lofty, Billy Wright, Tommy Lawton, Roy Bentley, Billy Steele, John Charles, the Comptons etc,etc), seashells and scrap-books were the order of my days as a kid Dujon. I've still got somewhere a completed album of Ships of the World cards from out of packets of Typhoo Tea. Used to love those scrap books with pictures of all sorts of things pasted in with flour and water glue.

[jimbo_bwfc]

Got a few hundred DVD's but at the moment I'm trying to collect classic football shirts. Not bought want one for a couple of months for financial reasons but have a few decent ones. I've started by trying to collect shirts I personally like and/or ones with names of players on the back that I like.

[bobo the clown]

Well, we (my son, though of course I bought them) a fist edition of each of the Harry Potter series. Not too exciting except the first one maybe, which has a signature in it by the author.

[a1]

Well, we (my son, though of course I bought them) a fist edition of each of the Harry Potter series. Not too exciting except the first one maybe, which has a signature in it by the author.

arent those worth a bucketload of money ?

by bucketload i mean 8 grand .

the unsigned ones'll be 500 quid each as well.

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[bobo the clown]

Well, we (my son, though of course I bought them) a fist edition of each of the Harry Potter series. Not too exciting except the first one maybe, which has a signature in it by the author.

arent those worth a bucketload of money ?

by bucketload i mean 8 grand .

the unsigned ones'll be 500 quid each as well.

:://

What ???

Excuse me, I need to pop out for a bit .....

[thebish]

Well, we (my son, though of course I bought them) a fist edition of each of the Harry Potter series. Not too exciting except the first one maybe, which has a signature in it by the author.

arent those worth a bucketload of money ?

by bucketload i mean 8 grand .

the unsigned ones'll be 500 quid each as well.

:://

What ???

Excuse me, I need to pop out for a bit .....

check it out on here:

http://www.catchthesnitch.com/books/first_editions/

An unsigned first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone" may be worth between £3,000 and £4,000. A signed copy may be as much as £10,000. One of the first edition "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone" hardbacks was sold for £10,575 at a Sotheby's auction in early 2002
An unsigned first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" may be worth between £400 and £600. A signed copy may be worth £1,500
An unsigned first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" may be worth £1000. A signed copy may be worth between £2,000 and £3,000. Note: This book will only be worth this amount if it contains a printing error in the first chapter, where a line was mistakenly placed between "burnt" and "so much" in the extract from "A History of Magic"
First editions of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" are not particularly valuable because so many were printed
An unsigned deluxe edition set of the first four books may be worth £1,000 with a signed set worth between £2,000 and £3,000

[bobo the clown]

Amazed. I need to check it all out. The elder son & his mate got into the first book very, very early on, hence the first edition. They then took to getting the new books as close to day 1 of publication and ended up in those queue's that used to happen at midnight on each new launch. By that point First Edition runs probably were in 6 figures, maybe 7 even.

He went to a lecture by her one day and took the first one along & she signed it for him. We viewed it would have some value ... a bloody shame he didn't take the whole set I suppose. Lazy sod.

I'll need to take a check on it to make sure it is that one which was signed & it is a valid first edition, tho pretty sure it is from memory and talking of it over the years.

The big question is "to sell, or not to sell ...". As in the end it's just a book. The value surprises me .... massively ... but it will only rise. It would, of course, ballon in value if she croaked.

mmmmm, ideas, ideas.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Kill her and maximise your investment.

[Gary the Enfield]

Amazed. I need to check it all out. The elder son & his mate got into the first book very, very early on, hence the first edition. They then took to getting the new books as close to day 1 of publication and ended up in those queue's that used to happen at midnight on each new launch. By that point First Edition runs probably were in 6 figures, maybe 7 even.

He went to a lecture by her one day and took the first one along & she signed it for him. We viewed it would have some value ... a bloody shame he didn't take the whole set I suppose. Lazy sod.

I'll need to take a check on it to make sure it is that one which was signed & it is a valid first edition, tho pretty sure it is from memory and talking of it over the years.

The big question is "to sell, or not to sell ...". As in the end it's just a book. The value surprises me .... massively ... but it will only rise. It would, of course, ballon in value if she croaked.

mmmmm, ideas, ideas.

Drinks on you at the next London match then, Bobo?