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Collectors will pay shockingly high prices for rare versions of otherwise common items. Take, for instance, a signed first edition of J. And that doesn’t even come close to the amount paid for the most valuable book sold at auction. In some cases, a company made a one-of-a-kind item designed to fetch top dollar, but most of these are collectibles that grew in value naturally, from coins and stamps to bobbleheads and Beanie Babies.

Let’s hope the buyer didn’t eat it. Another sweet item satisfies two sets of collectors: Beatle maniacs and cereal collectors. The year-old cereal was not included, but it did include the prize inside, a set of rub-ons. There were originally eight total, but this collector had six. Topps continued to release new series of Garbage Pail Kids cards through the s, but one card sold for over seven grand on eBay.

It was the first card in the first series, and because of its placement it was often cut in such a way that the centering would be off from left to right, making finding a perfect card incredibly difficult.

For more great trivia stories, please sign up for our free newsletters. Charles Lindbergh Matchbook Many restaurants and bars give away free matchbooks. For those lucky enough to have a matchbook from a Charles Lindbergh celebration dinner in , you could strike it rich, so to speak. Only four matches had been used. Hidden Mickey Disney pins from recent years already fetch thousands on eBay, so if you obtained a pin from a long-past limited batch, you could be sitting on a fortune.

It was in mint condition, so it probably did not smell like bologna sandwiches. If the bidder had just waited, McDonald’s ended up producing the sauce again after the “Rick and Morty” publicity.

Back in the ’60s, boys didn’t want to play with pink cars. It doesn’t use regular numbers anyway, so those 20 symbols are probably meaningless when it comes to hit points or dexterity rolls. Golden Brick Lego building bricks seem like they’re a dime a dozen. But from to , Lego gave out 10 golden bricks to its partners and employees of 25 years. Loveless Delaware Maid Historic daggers, swords, and other blades can go for millions, especially if previously wielded by historical figures.

This blade was made in the s during Loveless’ time in the Merchant Marine. Princess Bear Beanie Babies were the collectible toy craze of the ’90s, and their specialized varieties made many collector’s believe they would be wise investments.

Unfortunately, most Beanie Babies don’t sell for much more than you paid in the ’90s today. This was the Princess Diana memorial bear from , but if you look on eBay, you’ll see not all Princess Bears sell big. The stuffing makes all the difference. Original Barbie Most kids are lucky if their Barbie dolls survive with their heads intact.

Distinctions of the first edition Barbies feature round holes with copper tubes in the feet, and eyes with white irises instead of blue, according to The Richest. Special-edition Barbies with actual diamond jewelry have sold for hundreds of thousands at charity auctions.

The First Christmas Card In , 1, of these cards were sold for a shilling apiece. Sir Henry Cole sent this one to his grandmother. John Calcott Horsley drew the pictures of a family enjoying festive drinks and doing good deeds for the poor. This one may seem generic except for its history.

Only two of the astronaut dispensers were made for the World’s Fair making them extremely rare. Now, where’s the other one? It was untorn meaning the original owner never even got to see the game! Torn stubs from Mickey Mantle games and others have still gone for thousands.

Theodore Hook, Esq. Okay, so the postcards you pick up in gas stations on the road probably won’t be worth much. This was reportedly the first postcard ever sent , and Theodore Hook mailed it to himself in Pikachu Illustrator If you want to catch ’em all, this one will cost more than many people’s annual salary.

While each Pokemon card has different values and attributes, this rarity was the prize of a CoroCoro Comic Illustration Contest.

Less than 40 exist, and only 10 are in top condition. This one sold at Heritage Auctions in New York Yankee Bobbleheads are fairly common tchotchkes in the likenesses of celebrities. Sports bobbleheads even more so, as many are given away as promotions to ticket holders. It wasn’t even a famous player, just a general Yankee. They were bigger then, standing 14 inches tall. Original Levi’s Most people wear their jeans until the holes in the knees rip all the way up to the thighs. Randy Knight landed a pair of the very first jeans, found in an abandoned silver mine in the Mojave Desert and still wearable.

Let’s hope he doesn’t cut them into jean shorts. The corkscrew certainly qualifies as vintage. The London Bridge was demolished in , and a piece of it was used to make the corkscrew. Since the bridge was built in , that is a truly antique bar utensil. Only 1, were released. In , someone paid 87 grand to “add 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool. Prolific teddy bear manufacturer Steiff made the Teddy Girl in Robert Henderson was the owner from the day he was born and kept it with him as a colonel in World War II, according to Just Collecting.

Joe The G. Joes you played with in your backyard probably wouldn’t qualify, but the very first G. Creator Don Levine himself sold the G. Joe prototype after keeping it for decades. Well, in , only 31 Vincent Black Lightnings were ever made.

A mint-condition bike with its original paint was always going to be worth six figures. This one was owned by Jack Ehret and it’s the one he used to break the land speed record in That kind of history is priceless. Coca-Cola Factory Error Every once in a while, a can of Coke comes off the assembly line empty, but still sealed. Don’t open it! This bottle was admittedly rare — it was brewed for Sir Arthur Belcher in to celebrate his Arctic expedition.

Who’s got the other bottles? At those prices, let’s hope they didn’t drink the money away! An international version of the film’s poster , without German text, made it more valuable. You’d have to be a movie star yourself to afford this, and Leonardo DiCaprio was rumored to be the proud owner.

But, hey, you can still get an “Inception” poster for under 20 bucks. The Beatles’ White Album Collecting vinyl has made a comeback since true audiophiles prefer the physical media to CDs or digital. While first pressings of classic albums can be worth a lot, you really can’t beat the very first record of The Beatles’ White Album owned by Ringo Starr himself. Macallan Peter Blake Now that’s a stiff drink. Macallan only made 12 bottles of this Scotch in When they released it in , Peter Blake designed the label.

Blake had previously worked on the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album cover. When Bonhams put bottle No. Louis Cardinals game to see if Mark McGwire could break the record for most home runs in a season. One of those was “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane. There are apparently three Mint 10 grade Mantles out there. Action Comics 1 The debut appearance of Superman was truly a landmark for the comic book industry.

Both were graded a 9. We know the dollar isn’t worth what it used to be, especially when the very first U. Owned by shoe designer Stuart Weitzman who is donating the proceeds of the sale to charity , this gold coin was pressed in but never released because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had banned Americans from owning gold the same year in an attempt to end the nation’s banking crisis.

Somehow 20 of the coins survived, however, and now are hot items when they come up for auction. So you don’t get much rarer than this. In , a postmaster in British Guiana now Guyana ran out of stamps. A local newspaper printed some emergency stamps and this is the only known surviving 1-Cent Magenta today.

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Coca-Cola Factory Error Every once in a while, a can of Coke comes off the assembly line empty, but still sealed. Don’t open it! This bottle was admittedly rare — it was brewed for Sir Arthur Belcher in to celebrate his Arctic expedition.

Who’s got the other bottles? At those prices, let’s hope they didn’t drink the money away! An international version of the film’s poster , without German text, made it more valuable. You’d have to be a movie star yourself to afford this, and Leonardo DiCaprio was rumored to be the proud owner. But, hey, you can still get an “Inception” poster for under 20 bucks. The Beatles’ White Album Collecting vinyl has made a comeback since true audiophiles prefer the physical media to CDs or digital.

While first pressings of classic albums can be worth a lot, you really can’t beat the very first record of The Beatles’ White Album owned by Ringo Starr himself.

Macallan Peter Blake Now that’s a stiff drink. Macallan only made 12 bottles of this Scotch in When they released it in , Peter Blake designed the label. Blake had previously worked on the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album cover. When Bonhams put bottle No. Louis Cardinals game to see if Mark McGwire could break the record for most home runs in a season. One of those was “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane. There are apparently three Mint 10 grade Mantles out there.

Action Comics 1 The debut appearance of Superman was truly a landmark for the comic book industry. Both were graded a 9.

We know the dollar isn’t worth what it used to be, especially when the very first U. Owned by shoe designer Stuart Weitzman who is donating the proceeds of the sale to charity , this gold coin was pressed in but never released because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had banned Americans from owning gold the same year in an attempt to end the nation’s banking crisis. Somehow 20 of the coins survived, however, and now are hot items when they come up for auction.

So you don’t get much rarer than this. In , a postmaster in British Guiana now Guyana ran out of stamps. If you are a collector and not an investor, and you want to add to your collection, then there is a vast supply of classic stamps available from dealers. Buying from them carries risk, and you may probably wind up with a few stamps that are unwittingly inferior. In the old days of collecting—that is, when stamp collectors used to actually buy their stamps at stamp shops from stamp dealers—it was easy to get a quick education about stamps.

An honest and above-board dealer would never try to sell poor quality stamps to an experienced collector—he wouldn’t stay in business long. A reputable dealer would often give advice to new collectors, and that sage wisdom would stress that the condition of the stamp was of major importance. The hobby of stamp collecting should be a happy refuge. One of the benefits of stamp collecting is that there is an inherent market for stamps, the way there isn’t in bottle cap or matchbook collecting, for example.

It can be fun to put together a unique collection that says something about your personality. But don’t expect your quirky collection to have much resale value, unless you spend some serious money putting it together. Romanesque art developed in the period between about to the rise of Gothic art in the 12th century, in conjunction with the rise of monasticism in Western Europe.

The style developed initially in France, but spread to Christian Spain, England, Flanders, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere to become the first medieval style found all over Europe, though with regional differences.

Romanesque architecture is dominated by thick walls, massive structures conceived as a single organic form, with vaulted roofs and round-headed windows and arches. Reliefs are much more common than free-standing statues in stone, but Romanesque relief became much higher, with some elements fully detached from the wall behind. Large carvings also became important, especially painted wooden crucifixes like the Gero Cross from the very start of the period, and figures of the Virgin Mary like the Golden Madonna of Essen.

Royalty and the higher clergy began to commission life-size effigies for tomb monuments. Some churches had massive pairs of bronze doors decorated with narrative relief panels, like the Gniezno Doors or those at Hildesheim , “the first decorated bronze doors cast in one piece in the West since Roman times”, and arguably the finest before the Renaissance.

Most churches were extensively frescoed; a typical scheme had Christ in Majesty at the east altar end, a Last Judgement at the west end over the doors, and scenes from the Life of Christ facing typologically matching Old Testament scenes on the nave walls.

The “greatest surviving monument of Romanesque wall painting”, much reduced from what was originally there, is in the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe near Poitiers , where the rounded barrel vault of the nave , the crypt , portico and other areas retain most of their paintings. Romanesque sculpture and painting is often vigorous and expressive, and inventive in terms of iconography —the subjects chosen and their treatment.

Though many features absorbed from classical art form part of the Romanesque style, Romanesque artists rarely intended to achieve any sort of classical effect, except perhaps in Mosan art.

At the same time grotesque beasts and monsters, and fights with or between them, were popular themes, to which religious meanings might be loosely attached, although this did not impress St Bernard of Clairvaux , who famously denounced such distractions in monasteries:. But in the cloister, in the sight of the reading monks, what is the point of such ridiculous monstrosity, the strange kind of shapely shapelessness?

Why these unsightly monkeys, why these fierce lions, why the monstrous centaurs, why semi-humans, why spotted tigers, why fighting soldiers, why trumpeting huntsmen? In short there is such a variety and such a diversity of strange shapes everywhere that we may prefer to read the marbles rather than the books. During the period typology became the dominant approach in theological literature and art to interpreting the bible, with Old Testament incidents seen as pre-figurations of aspects of the life of Christ, and shown paired with their corresponding New Testament episode.

Often the iconography of the New Testament scene was based on traditions and models originating in Late Antiquity, but the iconography of the Old Testament episode had to be invented in this period, for lack of precedents.

New themes such as the Tree of Jesse were devised, and representations of God the Father became more acceptable. The vast majority of surviving art is religious. Stained glass became a significant art-form in the period, though little Romanesque glass survives.

In illuminated manuscripts the bible became a new focus of intensive decoration, with the psalter also remaining important. The strong emphasis on the suffering of Christ and other sacred figures entered Western art in this period, a feature that strongly distinguishes it from both Byzantine and classical art for the remainder of the Middle Ages and beyond.

The Gero Cross of , at the cusp of Ottonian and Romanesque art, has been called the first work to exhibit this. Jonah swallowed by the whale , capital in the nave of Mozac Abbey. Gothic art is a variable term depending on the craft, place and time.

The term originated with the Gothic architecture which developed in France from about with the rebuilding of the Abbey Church of St Denis. As with Romanesque architecture, this included sculpture as an integral part of the style, with even larger portals and other figures on the facades of churches the location of the most important sculpture, until the late period, when large carved altarpieces and reredos , usually in painted and gilded wood, became an important focus in many churches.

Gothic painting did not appear until around this date has many qualifications , when it diverged from Romanesque style. A Gothic style in sculpture originates in France around and spread throughout Europe, becoming by the 13th century the international style, replacing Romanesque, though in sculpture and painting the transition was not as sharp as in architecture.

The majority of Romanesque cathedrals and large churches were replaced by Gothic buildings, at least in those places benefiting from the economic growth of the period—Romanesque architecture is now best seen in areas that were subsequently relatively depressed, like many southern regions of France and Italy, or northern Spain. The new architecture allowed for much larger windows, and stained glass of a quality never excelled is perhaps the type of art most associated in the popular mind with the Gothic, although churches with nearly all their original glass, like the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, are extremely rare anywhere, and unknown in Britain.

Most Gothic wall-paintings have also disappeared; these remained very common, though in parish churches often rather crudely executed. Secular buildings also often had wall-paintings, although royalty preferred the much more expensive tapestries, which were carried along as they travelled between their many palaces and castles, or taken with them on military campaigns—the finest collection of late-medieval textile art comes from the Swiss booty at the Battle of Nancy , when they defeated and killed Charles the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , and captured all his baggage train.

As mentioned in the previous section, the Gothic period coincided with a greatly increased emphasis on the Virgin Mary, and it was in this period that the Virgin and Child became such a hallmark of Catholic art. Saints were also portrayed far more often, and many of the range of attributes developed to identify them visually for a still largely illiterate public first appeared. During this period panel painting for altarpieces, often polyptyches and smaller works became newly important.

Previously icons on panels had been much more common in Byzantine art than in the West, although many now lost panel paintings made in the West are documented from much earlier periods, and initially Western painters on panel were very largely under the sway of Byzantine models, especially in Italy, from where most early Western panel paintings come.

The process of establishing a distinct Western style was begun by Cimabue and Duccio , and completed by Giotto , who is traditionally regarded as the starting point for the development of Renaissance painting.

Most panel painting remained more conservative than miniature painting however, partly because it was seen by a wide public. International Gothic describes courtly Gothic art from about to , after which Gothic art begins to merge into the Renaissance art that had begun to form itself in Italy during the Trecento , with a return to classical principles of composition and realism, with the sculptor Nicola Pisano and the painter Giotto as especially formative figures.

The transition to the Renaissance occurred at different times in different places – Early Netherlandish painting is poised between the two, as is the Italian painter Pisanello. Outside Italy Renaissance styles appeared in some works in courts and some wealthy cities while other works, and all work beyond these centres of innovation, continued late Gothic styles for a period of some decades.

The Protestant Reformation often provided an end point for the Gothic tradition in areas that went Protestant, as it was associated with Catholicism. The invention of a comprehensive mathematically based system of linear perspective is a defining achievement of the earlyth-century Italian Renaissance in Florence , but Gothic painting had already made great progress in the naturalistic depiction of distance and volume, though it did not usually regard them as essential features of a work if other aims conflicted with them, and late Gothic sculpture was increasingly naturalistic.

In the midth century Burgundian miniature right the artist seems keen to show his skill at representing buildings and blocks of stone obliquely, and managing scenes at different distances.

But his general attempt to reduce the size of more distant elements is unsystematic. Sections of the composition are at a similar scale, with relative distance shown by overlapping, foreshortening , and further objects being higher than nearer ones, though the workmen at left do show finer adjustment of size.

But this is abandoned on the right where the most important figure is much larger than the mason. The end of the period includes new media such as prints ; along with small panel paintings these were frequently used for the emotive andachtsbilder “devotional images” influenced by new religious trends of the period.

The trauma of the Black Death in the midth century was at least partly responsible for the popularity of themes such as the Dance of Death and Memento mori. In the cheap blockbooks with text often in the vernacular and images cut in a single woodcut , works such as that illustrated left , the Ars Moriendi Art of Dying and typological verse summaries of the bible like the Speculum Humanae Salvationis Mirror of Human Salvation were the most popular. Renaissance Humanism and the rise of a wealthy urban middle class, led by merchants, began to transform the old social context of art, with the revival of realistic portraiture and the appearance of printmaking and the self-portrait , together with the decline of forms like stained glass and the illuminated manuscript.

Donor portraits , in the Early Medieval period largely the preserve of popes, kings and abbots, now showed businessmen and their families, and churches were becoming crowded with the tomb monuments of the well-off. The book of hours , a type of manuscript normally owned by laymen, or even more often, laywomen, became the type of manuscript most often heavily illustrated from the 14th century onwards, and also by this period, the lead in producing miniatures had passed to lay artists, also very often women.

In the most important centres of illumination, Paris and in the 15th century the cities of Flanders , there were large workshops, exporting to other parts of Europe. Other forms of art, such as small ivory reliefs, stained glass, tapestries and Nottingham alabasters cheap carved panels for altarpieces were produced in similar conditions, and artists and craftsmen in cities were usually covered by the guild system—the goldsmith ‘s guild was typically among the richest in a city, and painters were members of a special Guild of St Luke in many places.

Secular works, often using subjects concerned with courtly love or knightly heroism , were produced as illuminated manuscripts, carved ivory mirror-cases, tapestries and elaborate gold table centrepieces like nefs.

It begins to be possible to distinguish much greater numbers of individual artists, some of whom had international reputations. Art collectors begin to appear, of manuscripts among the great nobles, like John, Duke of Berry — and of prints and other works among those with moderate wealth.

In the wealthier areas tiny cheap religious woodcuts brought art in an approximation of the latest style even into the homes of peasants by the late 15th century. The oldest Byzantine icon of Mary, c. Romanesque statue of the Virgin as Seat of Wisdom , 12th century. The ” Ravensburger Schutzmantelmadonna”, painted limewood of ca , Virgin of Mercy type. Attributed to Michel Erhart.

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