Quotes About Collectibles

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more than 50 years old.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.

I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.

Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic—these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.

I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

Entire weekends in basements pitching dice and arguing over esoteric role-playing rules with obese, anemic boy-men who tote suitcases full of collectible trading cards.

I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

It;s called a flea market, because they sell old things that might have fleas living in them.

The land of the 45rpm record is the land of chaos.

gray pennies that had been made out of steel instead of copper during the Second World War.

There are a lot of weird things you might find in your basement or your attic that may have a lot of value.