5/16/2023 0 Comments Junkit contactsBlurriness fractures around and into the edge of my glasses’ frames, making me feel dizzy and peculiar, as if I am occupying a different universe: a parallel, less urgent, and dimensionally-warped world. Sometimes, if it’s the weekend, or a particularly hopeless day, I put on my glasses instead of my contact lenses, and rebel in the seasick world of semi-sightedness. I get out of bed, remember my way around the bedroom and the bathroom (as we all do at night, in the dark, in those half-alive hours of habit) and head straight for my eyes in their pools of saline. I wonder if this is part of what makes it so hard to get up every day. I wake up and what I see is light and colour and the memory of what my sighted self knows my bedroom looks like distorted into an approximation of reality. Find me someone in a pair of glasses – much easier today amongst my gently fashion conscious, 30-something friends than the enviably Disney-eyed companions of my schooldays – tell me their prescription and I’ll take that pathetic minus number, see it, and rocket it mathematically skyward: I have worse eyesight than 99 per cent of people I ever meet. True, I can mildly impress a limp reveller with my hyper-mobile elbows, I can fit my entire fist into my mouth, and once I nearly met my (suffocated, messy) end during a self-initiated bet about whether I could do the same with an entire box of Crispy Crème donuts. Pre-1975 pieces start to get interesting and are worth researching,” says Crisafulli.ĭon’t just clean out your “junk” this spring, examine it closely to potentially maximize its value.I’ve got one party trick. “The golden rule is the older the sports card or item, the more valuable it usually is. Top condition brings the highest prices, but even used equipment can be valuable. Pre-1950s uniforms and catcher’s masks, helmets, and other equipment are highly collected, especially when endorsed by star players. Your family’s sporting goods, such as balls, gloves, and bats, can be valuable. Tin signs from the 1960 and earlier can be highly prized, but reproductions aren’t. Ads from magazines aren’t valuable, but those used as store displays and for other marketing purposes can be pricey. Set aside old advertising posters depicting sports stars and food, tobacco or sporting goods brands. And when it comes to photos, look for old markings on the back, such as photographer, publication and date stamps. Look for early “real photo” postcards from the 1900s through the 1940s, which are photographs printed on postcard backs.Īs with sports cards, star power matters, so preserve those Babe Ruths as opposed to images of your great grandma’s baby cousin once removed. However, photographs and postcards depicting sports stars and ballparks can be significant. We all have keepsakes of vacation destinations, but most aren’t valuable. If you want to sell sports items for the most money, consider a specialty auction, such as Love of the Game, which has the expertise to properly research sports ephemera and maintains bidder lists of collectors specializing in sports. If you have very old cards from the 1880s through the 1930s, look for tobacco, gum, and candy brands, such as Old Judge, Piedmont, Sweet Caporal, Goudey, or American Caramel. Do you have cards of Hall of Famers, such as Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner or Ty Cobb? Even non-stars from the early days of a sport can be worth big bucks, especially if the cards have no creases and retain sharp corners and original gloss. To help, Crisafulli is sharing some tips: Older is Usually PricierĬards from the 1960s and earlier are collectible, and those from before the 1940s can be worth a lot of money, especially those depicting stars. The key is understanding what makes old sports collectibles valuable.
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