08-23-2015, 07:16 AM
Good Sunday morning to you all. To quote the weather forecast for today, "plentiful sunshine..., high temps around 108..." Just dandy, hard to believe that they had a pre-season football game last night about 10 miles to the south of us. I'd hate to see their bill for the A/C there since I'm sure they had the cover on the stadium closed.
You're right, I watch "Antique Roadshow" a lot and their take is that an object is valued by what someone is willing to pay for it. For the longest time we bought Rockwell plates, not for their "collectible" value, but because we liked the artist's work. If you look at the back of these plates marketed as collectible, you will see that they manufactured thousands of these everyday for hundreds of days and used to claim that some of them resold for much more than their original price. That's what they claimed, but you can find some of these at Goodwill for a fraction of their original selling price. Again, following the Antique Roadshow, we buy things because we like them, not for their value as collectibles.
BR60103 Wrote:Don: collectible is as collectible does. Factors are desirability, scarcity, popularity and condition.
I don't buy anything labelled "Collectible" or "COLLECTIBLE!!!!" on the cover (unless there's something desirable inside.)...
You're right, I watch "Antique Roadshow" a lot and their take is that an object is valued by what someone is willing to pay for it. For the longest time we bought Rockwell plates, not for their "collectible" value, but because we liked the artist's work. If you look at the back of these plates marketed as collectible, you will see that they manufactured thousands of these everyday for hundreds of days and used to claim that some of them resold for much more than their original price. That's what they claimed, but you can find some of these at Goodwill for a fraction of their original selling price. Again, following the Antique Roadshow, we buy things because we like them, not for their value as collectibles.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD