Money in the Hobby

[ronniehatesjazz]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Was an article last year about the absolute worst things to have collected in the last 50 years. Had to send a copy to my parents as they touched most of the bases. Hummels. Yadro. Norman Rockwell plates. Check check check.

Beanie babies were there of course. But the biggest disaster was Thomas Kinkaid paintings. What a debacle that turned into. People were paying big bucks for those and the market just got saturated. Every shopping mall in America was selling them. Poor guy died before it all collapsed. Probably for the better.

The king of kitsch! I was only a kid during the Kinkade craze and had no insights to what passed for good art (still probably don't) but I still remember thinking how cheesy the one my great aunt had in her living room looked.