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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: George Dreher
I'm looking forward to the upcoming catalog auctions. Has anyone else noticed an increasing influx of tobacco card buyers just in the last six months who were strictly antique collectors previously? I've been getting sniped by antique collectors who are making ridiculously high bids on vintage cards across the board. When researching their history, almost everything that comes up is antique furniture, chandeliers, etc. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: peter chao
George, |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: davidcycleback
Maybe their basements have no room for more chairs, but enough for tobacco cards. When there's no space for tobacco cards, they will switch to stamps then to Presidential hairs. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: George Dreher
Yes Peter, I can understand why someone would branch out to other collectibles and I do collect many other types of things such as historical documents, autographs and coins, etc. I was just surprised by the number of antique collectors who have begun buying up sportscards with no previous interest before six months ago. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Joe
Believe it or not, there are still some purists who adhere to the belief that in order to be truly considered an "antique," an object must be at least 100 years old. And what card set turns 100 in a couple of years, huh? huh? |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Speaking of hair collectors....I notice that Mastro sells a lot of celebrity hair. I notice that it's all authenticated by some guy named Reznikoff (I think?) - my question is how does he go about authenticating hair? |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Jason
That is interesting, and an astute obervation regarding a new group of buyers... |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: peter chao
Guys, |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: barrysloate
The thing about collecting hair is it all kind of looks the same...and how do they authenticate it? |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Jason
a little punchy after your recent auction? |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: barrysloate
Thanks Jason- and I stole that joke from from Chico Marx, it wasn't original. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: peter chao
Barry, |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: davidcycleback
Keeping lockets of a loved one's hair has been around for a long time. You can find Daguerreotypes with the pictured person's hair in the holder. If a man was to go to war, he would take his wife's photo and hair locket and she his. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: barrysloate
I have a small collection of portrait miniatures that date from the 1830's-40's, and one of them has a lock of hair placed in the back. It's a little eerie when you think how long the woman in the painting has been dead. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Rob Fouch
I have a snippet (not even a lock) of hair from the famous abolitionist John Brown. I guess there's no way to be absolutely certain it's authentic, but David's right, it's all about provenance. The guy I bought it from is a renowned hair collector and belongs to a hair-collecting society of some sort. The snippet (it's tiny, tiny) came with copies of all kinds of paperwork on where it came from and how he got it. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: howard
People collect hair!? Hell, I don't even have my OWN hair anymore! |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Fred C
Hair collecting... interesting... |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: davidcycleback
Bing Crosby willed a bunch of his personal effects to his almuni Gonzaga University. Two students were going through the boxes and came across what they thought were dead rodents. Turned out to be his toupees. ... Bing did not like to wear toupees, but his movie directors insisted. |
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antique collectors purchasing tobacco cards
Posted By: Joe D.
on this forum... where I was introduced to a new type of collectible.... |
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