Featured Antiques of the future

Not all of them but credit cards already sell very well. Particularly AMEX. Starbucks cards are already highly collected too, as another member mentioned.

 

On another site there was a reseller that was lucky enough to attend an estate sale that was from an early employee of Apple. Apparently there was all kinds of early employee only and promotional items that were worth $$$$. I posted about it here on this forum but I can't seem to locate the thread. The prices realized were incredibly eye opening.

 

So much stuff is so poorly made now that I can’t see most of it having an audience in the future. Sure some things that weren’t meant to be kept (or meant to last) forever will become valuable but I can’t imagine much will. My guess, which I guess isn’t much of a stretch would be luxury items. Watches, pens, purses...I guess that doesn’t take a crystal ball though.

Awesome! I believe it!!! I have done very well with promotional materials. Some meant for public and some for employees. No Apple though.

 

My take is to look for something decorative, well made, made by hand, impossible to fake (or very very hard to fake) made out of rare and expensive materials and in a trade lost to history. Now I know what you are thinking, you think this task would be almost impossible but I have found at least 8 such trades in history just from one country and since I've been collecting the prices have risen by 4-10x at least. I started collecting Indian antiques around 10 years ago using the above method, Nagina carving, Sadeli, miniature Indian watercolors, good Indian carving, Hoshiarpur, vizagapatam, ceylon ebony carving, monghyr inlaid work. Then you have Khatam from Persia. All of these types of antiques were very affordable 10 years ago and I expect there are many more from countries all over the world.

 

I think the antiques of tomorrow are those that 1) evoke childhood or nostalgia of their youth to the person collecting and 2) are often overlooked at the time and thrown away which makes them rarer. Think toys and marbles. Some marbles are worth a small fortune now and I’ve lost count of all the books I gave away as a child and I am now buying back!