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[Robot Man]

Just can't let my favorite thread in General slip to page 3!  Got up early this morning and this is what I found.

[1950's war comics]

Just can't let my favorite thread in General slip to page 3!  Got up early this morning and this is what I found.

Never have seen a water skiing trophy before ! , vintage trophies are really cool...

Edited November 5, 2017 by 1950's war comics

[Robot Man]

21 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

Just can't let my favorite thread in General slip to page 3!  Got up early this morning and this is what I found.

Never have seen a water skiing trophy before ! , vintage trophies are really cool...

Me neither. Had to buy it. Here is another one I got about 6 months ago. Love the design, color and patina.

[1950's war comics]

Me neither. Had to buy it. Here is another one I got about 6 months ago. Love the design, color and patina.

 

I never saw a jockey trophy cup before either !

I pick up an occasional vintage golf trophy now and then on eBay,..  and sometimes garage sales.....they have to be 1960's or before to be at all cool ,.. anything newer has too much plastic

if i go to a high school or college facility to watch a basketball game one of the first things i try to do is check out their trophy cases to see all the old cool looking trophies from years past

 

 

 

[Robot Man]

I've owned some real nice baseball and surfing trophies over the years. I like the same kind as you. Metal, figural and large. They sell as fast as I put them out at shows for real good money. This one will probably go fast.

[WolverineX]

Picked these up at a flea market .   first time I found Silver age out in the wild.  They are about VG to VF condition... not sure if its really worth much...

 

 

 

 

Edited November 6, 2017 by Wolverinex

[Cocomonkey]

Ah, I love flea markets...is this thread only for recent pick-ups, or can we post older finds here? 

[spreads]

12 minutes ago, Cocomonkey said:

Ah, I love flea markets...is this thread only for recent pick-ups, or can we post older finds here? 

Post away!

[Rhymenoceros]

Since we are sharing great finds that aren't comic related - here's one. I picked up this camera in a lot at a flea market recently. Just a box of random stuff and the price was right so I took a risk. There were a few cool other ones in the box that folded out... all worth about $10-20 each, but this one is different though looks pretty unassuming.

Apparently it's a super rare 1952 Leica copy, made in Western Germany. Only a few of these have been sold in the past 10 years at high end camera auctions for up to $1k - $2k in slightly better shape. Going to take it to a local camera shop this weekend and see if we can test it out. It's just 35mm so should be fairly easy but I'm not familiar with loading film on super old cameras and sounds like we might have to retrofit something. I've bought lots of vintage cameras over the years but never something that could potentially have some real value. 

 

[Robot Man]

53 minutes ago, Rhymenoceros said:

Since we are sharing great finds that aren't comic related - here's one. I picked up this camera in a lot at a flea market recently. Just a box of random stuff and the price was right so I took a risk. There were a few cool other ones in the box that folded out... all worth about $10-20 each, but this one is different though looks pretty unassuming.

Apparently it's a super rare 1952 Leica copy, made in Western Germany. Only a few of these have been sold in the past 10 years at high end camera auctions for up to $1k - $2k in slightly better shape. Going to take it to a local camera shop this weekend and see if we can test it out. It's just 35mm so should be fairly easy but I'm not familiar with loading film on super old cameras and sounds like we might have to retrofit something. I've bought lots of vintage cameras over the years but never something that could potentially have some real value. 

 

Any Leica camera is a winner. I don't know if a copy of one is a good thing. But I would assume even it has some value. Probably a good purchase!

[WolverineX]

2 hours ago, Rhymenoceros said:

Since we are sharing great finds that aren't comic related - here's one. I picked up this camera in a lot at a flea market recently. Just a box of random stuff and the price was right so I took a risk. There were a few cool other ones in the box that folded out... all worth about $10-20 each, but this one is different though looks pretty unassuming.

Apparently it's a super rare 1952 Leica copy, made in Western Germany. Only a few of these have been sold in the past 10 years at high end camera auctions for up to $1k - $2k in slightly better shape. Going to take it to a local camera shop this weekend and see if we can test it out. It's just 35mm so should be fairly easy but I'm not familiar with loading film on super old cameras and sounds like we might have to retrofit something. I've bought lots of vintage cameras over the years but never something that could potentially have some real value. 

 

What are you going to do with it?

[Rhymenoceros]

Probably sell soon. I have lots of shelf display cameras that I like the looks of more that aren't worth nearly as much. Not sure the best way to sell. Need to do more research. 

[Phantalien]

On 11/6/2017 at 6:55 PM, Wolverinex said:

Picked these up at a flea market .   first time I found Silver age out in the wild.  They are about VG to VF condition... not sure if its really worth much...

 

 

 

 

The comics that are upside down are worth the most especially compared to the mirrored ones.   Some sort of printing error I am sure but it is best to see the notes on them once they are graded.

(congratulations of finding SA in the wild that's not Dell or Classic Illustrated)

Edited November 9, 2017 by Phantalien

[WolverineX]

35 minutes ago, Phantalien said:

The comics that are upside down are worth the most especially compared to the mirrored ones.   Some sort of printing error I am sure but it is best to see the notes on them once they are graded.

(congratulations of finding SA in the wild that's not Dell or Classic Illustrated)

Since they are only 4.5-6, I wasn't sure if I should grade it.  Would you? 

[Diamonddave]

37 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Since they are only 4.5-6, I wasn't sure if I should grade it.  Would you? 

If you're slabbing cause you like them and want to protect them, sure. If you are slabbing to resell, not worth the price of grading and shipping.

[01TheDude]

Isn't that the same picture? The second one being the image upside down (180 rotation), the third being the first picture using mirror image ...

[WolverineX]

7 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

Isn't that the same picture? The second one being the image upside down (180 rotation), the third being the first picture using mirror image ...

Yes, I have no idea how to delete them

[STORMSHADOW_80]

Just picked this beauty Iron Man 1 up at an estate sale for $110. Shoutout to @Dreamtoreal1 for giving me a heads up.  The sale was listed at the last minute and I would have missed it. Thanks buddy   

I also posted this book in the PGM section 

[Dreamtoreal1]

1 hour ago, STORMSHADOW_80 said:

Just picked this beauty Iron Man 1 up at an estate sale for $110. Shoutout to @Dreamtoreal1 for giving me a heads up.  The sale was listed at the last minute and I would have missed it. Thanks buddy   

I also posted this book in the PGM section 

happy to be able to give an assist   and congrats! that's a beauty right there Art 

[STORMSHADOW_80]

10 minutes ago, Dreamtoreal1 said:

happy to be able to give an assist   and congrats! that's a beauty right there Art 

Thanks Pablo!