First Editions
What Makes Them So Valuable
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First Edition Books can be found at just about every thrift store, flea market, goodwill, yard sale and even some antique shops. They are piled in boxes in attics, garages, and closets of nearly every house and they are worth money. Some may be worth a few dollars, others much more, and some can bring hundreds or thousands.
Are we talking about just old used books here? No. First Editions and Used books are really a vast category unto themselves and there is a lot of money to be made in both. Used Books and magazines will be covered separately at a later date.
While there are a few simple factors that determine the value of a First Edition one of the most important is condition, condition, condition. Most First Editions found in the areas mentioned above will fall into the grade of Fair to Very Good.
Still, with the right knowledge and applying the correct methods, several hundred dollars or more worth of First Editions can be found with minimal effort every day for fifty dollars or less.
Numismatics
What Can A Penny Actually Buy
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What can a penny buy? Everything. Find the right one in your pocket change or change jar and you could pay off your credit cards or house. Having a knowledge of Numismatics and applying the correct strategies and methods can completely change your financial life. The possibilities and profits can be unlimited.
Numismatics (or collectible coins) is perhaps one of the most vast among all things collectible and has been around since ancient times. Even the sub-categories of Numismatics called Exonumia, Notaphily and Scriptophily are in themselves beyond vast. The methods and strategies for buying, selling and collecting coins are endless and the profits can be a comfortable income, if not astronomical.
In the Numismatic category several important topics will be discussed at length. Where and how to buy and sell, determining coin conditions, using price guides accurately, networks, coin types, mint errors, numismatic markets, securing the profit margin and grading companies just to name a few.
Fishing Lures
Turning A Few Dollars Into Hundreds
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Entire tackle boxes of lures can be found at yard sales, flea markets, estate sales and auctions for under $15 and can be the equivalent of a small treasure chest. Lures can be found in thrift stores and junk shops, in a tangled clump, used, faded, and dinged, up which can have the resale potential of several hundred.
While fishing lures are basically everywhere, it is important however to have a good knowledge of a lures year, type, grade and maker. These play many critical factors in the methods and strategies of buying, selling and pricing.
There are basically two types of collectors. Those who collect pre-1940's lures and those who collect lures from the 1950's to the 1990's. There is a vast difference between the two types of collectors, prices, methods and strategies. For all intents and purposes, we will cover fishing lures in two separate categories beginning with the common 1950's to 1990's and pre-1940's shortly after.
Collectible Brass
How To Triple Your Money
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In every antique shop and flea market brass items can be found in great abundance. Brass lamps, brass animal figurines, brass planters, brass vases, brass pitchers, brass everything can be found and bought for much less than its actually worth. There are several ways to double, triple and even quadruple the original investment and several methods to use.
Many factors and methods come in to play when considering the profit margin of Brass. Knowing where and how to buy Collectible Brass is just as much of a critical factor as knowing where and how to sell it. Also of great importance is being able to identify the makers mark and history.
Also to be thoroughly discussed in the category of Collectible Brass will be the methods and strategies of reselling. Building medium size collections, pairing items, and individual items all have several methods that are effective and have great potential for strong profit margins.
Hummels
Finding Them And Selling Them
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Hummel figurines have been both mass produced and mass collected since around 1935. They are common and overlooked at yard sales, thrift shops, and flea markets and are definitely a great example of forgotten gold.
While the Hummel market has saw a decline in prices over the past few years due to a verity of factors which should have been, and probably was expected, they still carry a nice profit margin and they do sell quite easily if simple methods are applied.
In the Hummel category the rule and method of realistic pricing and realistic expectations is of great importance and will be covered very thoroughly. That, combined with the knowledge of where and where not to buy them sets a simple strategy for successful selling and great profits.
Cast Iron Toys
Finding Yard Sale Gold
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The verity of cast iron toys that have been produced are nearly endless and can still be found in numerous places such as yard sales, thrift shops, flea markets, antique shops, even places like goodwill and estate sales. Often these items are overlooked and forgotten and a great many of them could correctly be called cast iron gold.
There are several methods that can be used to provide a nice profit margin with cast iron toys. Some of the methods discussed will include restoring, assemblage, parts, and repairing just to name a few. Many strategies for how and where to buy and sell will also be thoroughly covered.
One of the most critical things when buying cast iron toys of course is knowledge, having the ability to properly identify the piece. Reproduction and late production pieces are abundant. While a profit can still be made with them, it can rarely compare to the price of an original, even a restored or repaired original.
Collectible Stamps
How To Find Them Buy Them Sell Them
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The U.S. Postage Stamp dates back to July 1, 1847. With them came the collectors or philatelists as they have become known. There are just as many different types of collectors as there are different issues of stamps.
The category of stamps is extremely vast, being second only, if not equal to Numismatics. Since there beginning in 1847 nearly a limitless verity of stamps have been issued. Nearly everything can be found on stamps, political figures, famous people, historical figures, events, animals, flowers, trains, planes, cars, trucks, and on and on, not to mention the different denominations and verity types or foreign stamps that can be found.
A good solid stamp collection with a retail value of a $1000 can be assembled quite easily for $300 or less. There are many strategies and methods, both simple and advanced, for buying and reselling collectible stamps.