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AC/DC Collection

billybones

billybones

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Went into the city today to take a look at the AC/DC memorabilia collection at the museum and it was pretty impressive. Once I`ld finished that, I decided to take a look at the other exhibits and that`s when I started to feel scared...

Seems a lot of the things shown I had as a kid and now someone is calling it old.

Anyway getting to my question, does anybody have or wish they had kept from their childhood that may be worth a pretty penny these days??

I used to collect coins and stamps when I was about 10 and I think if I still had them now they might be worth a bit more then I had paid for them.

Please don`t include your porn collection.::)
 
I love record album art. I collect vinyl LPs. The problem with CDs these days is that their artwork is batshit boring.

I've got the Beatles Abbey Road album, the Olivia Newton John "physical" album and the Jane Fonda workout LP among many others. They were all icons of their era. And yes I even have "harry secombe sings disco"!!

I also collect currency and have many of the Australian cloth dollar notes of the 80s. I don't collect any of these for speculate value though some do. Nice to know I guess you've something of value but for me it's more nostalgia. Sad truth is that it may mean bugger all to the next generation and end up in opp shops somewhere or landfill.

Do you remember a comedian (can't be bothered googling it) who was a member of the Doug Anthony Allstars way back?Well he's a Star Wars collector and has actually rented an ENTIRE house - he doesn't live in it - for his Star Wars collection. And he NEVER reveals where the house is as it's quite valuable these days.
 
I used to have a nice record collection including a (still working) record player from the early 50ies. (LOL guess most of the kids now aday don't even know how to work a record player.)
And believe it or not I used to have a little 'library' with nearly 900 books....some of them 19th century. I did give it all away when I started travelling and moving around a lot (collections are a real pain when you are on the move.) Do I miss them? To be honest.....no! I find it very liberating not possessing lot's of stuff. (Everything I treasure and need fits in one backpack....the rest can be easily replaced.)
Before the royal wedding they interviewed an Australian woman who has got the biggest royal collection. She and her husband use only the top part of the house, the collection occupies the ground floor. Each to their own.:occasion14

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Partly related to OP's topic - just something Rochelle said.

Many people derive a huge satisfaction and comfort from books. Many of us have read great books never to read it again, sometimes we do but there's something about being surrounded by books.

As I type this, I'm the smallest bedroom in the house. It's got a jarrah floor and a whole lot of cheap assembled bookcases I bought from WA Salvage as it was closing down and yes, they're full of books. I've got a cheap old portable radio/stereo player and my PC here. It's my favourite room in the whole house and has the most comfortable chair for me to spend hours reading in.

I love it. Books - if friendships were better on this board, I'd organise an evening get together for all of us to meet over coffee and I'd show you all the second hand bookstores in my favourite locality. Might still do that.
 
As you said BBC off topic But the humble old secondhand bookshop would have to
be one of my fave places to visit whenever I get to Perth
But back on topic I often bought LP's just for there artwork I even bought an album by Marillion only because I thought the cover was cool. I still have many a hundred albums Worth bugger all to anybody else but I wouldn't part with them or any books ever
 
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