The Collectible Page

Over the years, thanks to the fact that there are three or four Goodwill stores within a short driving distance of my house plus a ValuVillage store between two of them, I seem to have collected a fair number of things that may or may not be of value.  Whether they are worth anything or not isn't really why I bought them in the first place.  Much of it had to do with their 'neatness' quotient, their silliness and mostly I picked them up simply because I didn't want someone else to have fun with them until I did.

Today, August 13, 1998, I set up the video camera and captured some pix of many of the items I am talking about.  Check out what I have, check back later in case I add some more items and drop me a note HERE to share your thoughts with me.  If you have more information I would love to hear from you.

If you would like to know the value of things that you have, you must remember that things, like real estate, have no intrinsic value.  Gold has some intrinsic value, collectibles are only worth what someone will pay for them.  Same as real estate.  The best place by far to check out values of a vast array of different things, is Ebay.  (Just type ebay in the address box at the top of your browser and you will be whisked there as if by magic.)  Ebay is the most current source of collectible information that I know of.  Magazines are already old when you get them.  Flea markets are full of people who already paid too much for most items and, in my humble opinion, they charge way too much for the things they sell.  Use the search engine onsite, making sure you check off the part that says 'past auctions' and you will have a very good idea of what your widget is worth.

1. A couple of gruesome guys from Mattel, dated 1988.  I have no info on them.  Only one has a gun now, although they both did at one time.

2. Two Oreo bendies, one with wheels and the other a fridge magnet, with a Chips Ahoy guy, also a fridge magnet.

3. A couple of old books, one about the Brooklyn Dodgers dated 1945 and the other about the Yankees dated 1943, both by Frank Graham.  Neither has a dust jacket but they are both in great shape.

4. A little pop-up puppy in a plastic basket, made in Japan.  No date and it doesn't work anymore but might if I could get the wind-up handle off.  Any ideas about how I might do it would be appreciated.  Does it twist off like a screw?

5. Esquire's First Sports Reader, edited and with an introduction by Herb Garffis, dated 1945.  Has a dust jacket which is ripped but the book itself is in good shape.  Has an article by George Halas and another about women's softball.  Interesting and historical stuff.

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