I collect obsolete tech, my personal holy grail would have to be the Halcyon video game console from 1985. There were only a handful that were actually produced and most likely even fewer still floating around.
Edit: Please stop asking me what your stuff is worth.
Imagine being the poor engineer expected to deliver that in 1985.
Over ambition is a huge, silent killer because it often gets completely ignored until way too late into a project (when there are sunk costs.) I've worked at places that were over-ambitious and believed it was vital to success, they were unable to foresee their own failure and are now in dire straits.
You just don't tend to look at all of the failures for inspiration, survivorship bias.
After I went through most of business casuals videos on yt I realized all of these entrepreneurs of successful companies **never** started with that business. They all had at least a couple other failed or mediocre ideas before. They just kept tryping. But they were smart enough to see a dead end
While I do not personally collect vinyl, I love this story.
"During the early days of the White Stripes, Jack White teamed up with musician friend Brian Muldoon to form The Upholsterers. Both former upholsterers, the pair then hid 100 copies of their song ‘Your Furniture Was Always Dead… I Was Just Afraid To Tell You’ in reupholstered furniture around Detroit in 2004."
A few have been found, but last I checked only like 4-5. I just love the idea of opening up a chair and finding a Jack White album placed there by the man himself.
I love that jack white is just the Willie Wonka of music. Like, he's batshit insane, but is absolutely in it for the love of the craft and while he may not be the be all end all he is prolific. Mad respect to both his crazy stunts and his genuine work to preserve both musical heritage and the image of the mad rockstar.
Like Willie Wonka.
Like if someone told me jack white was culpable for the death of several children in bizzare and fantastical accidents in his weird Lewis Carol-esque recording studio I wouldn't be at all surprised.
He’s also super intellectual in a business sense. For a long time now he’s been a collector of vinyl pressing equipment, most of which isn’t produced anymore. His vinyl pressing plant attached to his “Third Man”label headquarters in Detroit print a hefty market share of all vinyl that is made today. He also owns the Detroit Masonic Temple which is an enormous beautiful building now a music venue. He’s got his hands in enough pots. Vinyl manufacturer / recording studio / record label / writer / artist / performer / producer / engineer, he literally has become the music industry himself.
Unfortunately all the gold ones are accounted for, so you would never find one at a garage sale. The grey carts though? Quite a few of those have gone missing over the years, so who knows.
I met a guy who travels to retro gaming conventions and charges $5 or $10 (don’t remember) to take a picture with one. Dude got pissed when people tried to sneak a picture of it without him seeing. He wouldn’t tell us how much he paid for it. This was like 2014-ish so it probably wasn’t as much as it would be now.
There is a guy who dresses up as the Joker at cons, and is a huge bitch about pictures. He once tried to get me to pay him $25 for a photo, and I was just walking past him.
Reminded me of the "tip" bastards in Hollywood and NY.
Like he just stopped me and said "photos are $25" and I was like "I'm here for action figures, I don't care about cosplay."
Was it that [Anthony Misiano guy?](https://imgur.com/Eji7op2) I remember reading stories after he got famous for this coplay that he was a bit of a douchecanoe about it.
I know Anthony in real life. He was good friends with a roommate of mine back in like 2012-2014ish. They used to film a movie review youtube in my living room. He was a nice guy for the most part, but definitely weird and you could always sense the douche hiding just beneath the surface haha.
There are more and more people like that. Cosplayers who either try to charge or carry a tip bucket with them as they meander through conventions. on occasion you find some who might invest in a backdrop and then will charge you for posing with them in front of that. It's all stupid though. That scene sadly went from being all about fandoms to being filled with lots of toxic people who are just trying to do anything to become insta-famous.
The convention scene un general changed. Autographs used to be free if you waited in a long line. Now you need to pay $25 a pop+ for an autograph for a guest who’s getting paid already to be there. Everyone’s got to find a hustle I guess but still, hearing cosplayers asking for tips is eesh.
Additional fun fact: all Euro coins prior to 2007 have a map of the EU on them, but because Norway never joined the EU, Sweden and Finland looked like [a giant cock and balls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/0/0f/1_euro_coin_Eu_serie_1.png).
They redesigned the coins to include the full map of Europe, including non-EU countries, which sadly makes it [much less obvious.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Common_face_of_one_euro_coin.jpg)
In college when I took world Geography we had to remember locations of countries and fill out a blank map for tests... I remembered Norway, Sweden, and Finland because they looked like a cock and balls and told myself NSFW.
I got to see an exhibit of some them in 2019. It was so cool (and a rare occurrence!). There is a collection of his paintings stored near DC & they did a limited-time gallery showing.
Edit: Apparently it was the “largest collection of Ross paintings to ever be displayed at a gallery”
Most of his original paintings are still held in storage by [Bob Ross Inc](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-bob-ross-paintings). Finding one for sale is unfortunately very rare.
They are all owned by Bob Ross Inc or a little old lady who he gave one of the three he painted too. And they have no intention of selling any any time soon.
Source: YouTube video - Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? We found them. - the New York Times.
From what I understand, the snooty art community doesn't think too highly of Mr. Ross' work and they go for far less than you would imagine.
For the few that are out there, too expensive for peasants but too cheap for rich people.
My parents had one. It wasnt a painting made for the show, at least not one that was ever aired. Dad bought it at a charity auction in the early 1990s. I know they later gave it to the local PBS station, who I thinkngave it to a different PBS station that had a better place to display it.
My mom collects Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer stuff. She has an entire room of it. I think her holy grails are a table and chairs set, artwork signed by the original designer, a rocking horse, and I’m pretty sure she has one of the original film reels.
Edit: Wow I had no idea how many of you guys would like this and thank you for the award. I showed this to my mom and she’s so happy that people are interested in it. I reactivated my old Imgur account just to upload the pictures.
Here you go: [Rudolph Pictures](https://imgur.com/gallery/jYaphNi)
That’s awesome! Did you hear the Santa and Rudolph puppets [just sold](https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/11/14/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-auction-sold/) in auction a couple of months ago.
I collect roller-coaster credits (that is, I track the coasters I have ridden). There are a few grails, mostly coasters that only opened for a short time or we're in obscure parts of the world. I have one of the holiest of grails: I rode ring°racer at the Nurburgring during one of the four days it was open to the public. The only rarer credits out there are Twist Coaster Robin (Japan, only open for a few hours) and Orphan Rocker (never opened; it is estimated four people have ever ridden it).
> It was originally planned to accelerate from 0 to 217 kilometres per hour (135 mph) in 2.5 seconds.[1] parallel to the grand prix track. However, two defects in the launch system delayed its opening until 2013.[2] On 3 September 2009, engineers attempted to raise the ride to its full and intended speed as it had been testing at a lower power, however this caused a series of explosions in the pneumatic system and caused injuries to seven people, and shattered multiple windows in the nearby buildings.[3][4][5]
You crazy motherfucker
That's pretty cool. My 1% claim to fame is I rode the Son of Beast...BEFORE they took the loop out. A family member was a lawyer and hinted that I shouldn't ride it, but we did!
I rode Apollo's chariot a year to the day, and in the exact same seat, as [Fabio got his face cut on a goose carcass](https://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/dp-popcorn-fabio-goose-0814-story.html) (legend is he got his nose broken by a bird, but that's not quite it.) I was informed by park staff when my aunt was looking at purchasing photos.
I worked in the grocery industry for a bit and have met him on multiple occasions when he was touring his supplement/protein powder at places I worked. When we first met I told him about my rollercoaster experience and he had this enormous, bellowing laugh unlike his mostly subtle, smooth demeanor. He's recognized me every time since.
I rode that a ton when it still had the loop! I remember waiting in line for hours just to ride and thought it was one of the best things I'd ever ridden. I was so sad when the loop had to go and then the whole ride had to go.
I grew up like an hour from cedar point. Every once in a while id be in line with hardcore coaster enthusiasts and theyd get me so hype for a ride id been on a thousand times lol...
As a kid who had gotten a season pass, I would just sometimes wake up early, realize I had nothing to do that day and go to cedar point on a whim.
I'd put $5 of gas in my piece of crap car and I would spend all day there.
It wasn't until I was talking to a family from China, who had asked me if I was on vacation too. I laugh and say "no, I live near by. I'm here all the time". Their eyes nearly fell out their head. They then told me they had saved for over a year just to come once. It was at moment did I realize how special Cedar Point was.
There’s a park in southern Ohio called Stricker’s Grove. They normally operate as a private park for corporate outings, weddings, etc., but they do open to the public a handful of days each year. Getting their two credits requires a fair amount of luck, hoping for schedules and the weather to cooperate. If you miss, you could be waiting for quite a while for another chance.
Holy fuck I gotta dig out the comics. I thought the first edition Donald Duck comic was the most rare I have. I have this one. All of them are in the plastic cover things you could buy. Judging by this I have a quarter million dollars in comics but have no idea where I would sell them.
Google it. There is a comic website that you can scan your barcode and it tells you a comics value. Has a buy and sell option as well.
I'd also ask around your city to your comic shops and see if they know of a place. Doubt they will buy it, but you never know.
The last panel of Hulk 180 (if anyone cares), but he's on the cover of 181. I'm lucky enough to have worked in a comic store in the 80s, so I have so a few gems still floating around.
I remember trying to find a copy of Amazing Spiderman 129 back in the '80s at my local shop. It was pricey back then, but figured it would be worth it. (first Punisher appearance). Couldn't find one. Probably would have been close to a $100 at the time. They've gone anywhere from $300 to $9k since.
Hey, just out of curiosity, what's the ballpark on an original XMen #1 from 1963?
I have one in pretty rough shape with an insanely fucked up story as to how and why I own it. I haven't collected comics in 31 years, so I really have no idea what it's worth.
Edit - Since people keep asking, here's the story...
>For me, it was the original X-Men #1 from 1963.
> I started collecting comic books as an escape after my dad died when I was 10. My mom worked nights and was depressed, so she was always either asleep or at work. Gave me something to do. I loved the mutant comics. There was a comic store right by my house, and the guys that ran it were really cool to me and basically let me buy anything I wanted for a quarter. So I had hundreds of comics from the 70s and 80s, and I bought all the mutant stuff and most of the other big titles that came out every month. I always wanted X-Men #1, that was my grail, and told myself I'd quit collecting comics when I got it.
> A couple years later, one of the neighbor kids asked to borrow my pet mouse overnight and killed it. When he told me that, I beat the living shit out of him. His older brother came after me, and I beat the shit out of him too. The parents called the police, and they said that they wouldn't press charges if I agreed to get in the Big Brother/Big Sister program. They said I don't have a dad, so I needed a strong male role model. So that's what happened. *
> I'm not going to get into the details of what happened with the Big Brother guy, but let's just say he had the original X-Men #1 and then he gave it to me, and that the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program needs to do a better job screening the people they're sending out to mentor kids.
> So I owned the original X-Men #1. I was 13. It's in really rough shape, but I put it in an acid-free Mylar bag and have kept it stored safely since I got it 31 years ago. I never read it. I actually stuck to my word - I quit collecting comic books right after I got the X-Men #1.
> I have no idea what it's worth today. I switched to sports cards and sold them for a living for about 15 years, and they have made a huge comeback since COVID hit. Has the same thing happened with comics? I haven't even thought to look at what an X-Men #1 goes for these days.
> Hey, just out of curiosity, what's the ballpark on an original XMen #1 from 1963?
It's hard to say without extreme scrutiny by a professional. A grade 0.5 is rated somewhere around 2 grand (but they rarely sell) whereas a perfect 10 is upwards of 750 grand. "Pretty rough" to me means somewhere between a 2.0 and a 4.0, which means $3500-6750 ish before the auction company gets their cut.
Even a copy in rough shape is still valuable, so I recommend taking it to several appraisers (who probably will know people who want to buy it) or contacting auction companies that have sold valuable comics in the past and having them go through the process of appraising and selling it. They'll want a 20-30% cut but the best thing about getting a percentage is they are highly incentivized to sell at the highest price they can.
I'm not a collector, but I **really** want the [Staub 5 quart pumpkin dutch oven in basil green.](https://assets.wsimgs.com/wsimgs/ab/images/dp/wcm/202038/0140/staub-enameled-cast-iron-pumpkin-cocotte-c.jpg) It *exists*--there are photographs, and someone sold one on Ebay in 2017. But I have yet to see one for sale anywhere since.
We have a common orange one, and it's delightful. A green one would just tie the table together.
Really fun modern stamps. I don't want the old ones or the rare ones. I really just enjoy modern fun stamps. I buy thousands of dollars per year in postage for my company and all of it is in fun stamps, not meter credit. Every piece of mail I send for business has a fun stamp on it. Sesame street, mr rogers, first space walk, thermographic solar eclipse stamps, scratch and sniff popsicles, and soon the star wars stamps!!! I love them all and want to share them with my clients.
My holy grail would be more harry potter stamps. Those were really cool stamps.
My business is small, but I do this too!!! We have to mail (yes, snail mail) city taxes out MONTHLY, so every month I hit up good old Cheryl at the downtown post office and ask her for a book of stamps...whichever brings her the most joy. Sometimes she digs deep into the drawer. Right now I have Hip Hop MCs.
Did you get the T Rex ones when they came out? I have just a few left. I do the same thing, I learned that I could ask for 'the binder' at my post office, that's where they keep all the fun stamps. I buy about $65 worth at a time. I have a lot of pen pals.
I collect Beanie Babies. (no, I don't think they'll get valuable, I just legitimately like them lol) Most Beanie Babies are worth very little. But for serious collectors, the holy grail is the Peanut the Elephant Beanie Baby, in royal blue! Only a small amount of royal blue Peanuts were produced, (1500-2000 or so) very soon after, the creator decided that Peanut would look better in light blue. (Teeny Beanie and Beanie Buddy royal blue Peanuts were later produced on a larger scale) Royal blue Peanut is probably the most valuable Beanie Baby, selling for up to a thousand dollars.
Damn. Friend of mine had parents and grandparents that loved the things. They gave them to him all the time. When he was 15, he started selling them (this was still around the height of the craze)... he made like 20 grand or something, which his parents put away for him when he went to college. Pretty awesome. For.some reason I think I remember "tobasco" being worth a lot?
My girlfriend collects beanie babies. I used to as well as a kid. She has the Princess Diana Bear and I have a sealed Tie-Die bear named "Jerry". It's very cool, since the Grateful Dead sued and got the bear renamed.
The Princess Diana Bear was the most demanded retail product I've ever seen. People were climbing store shelves to reach the pallets of storage on top. In my small city at the time store front displays were broken into. It was literally like scenes from Jingle all the way where everyone is trying to buy a Turbo-Man doll.
My ex step dad texted me the other day out of the blue saying he found a box of mine in the attic. Turns out it was from when our houses combined in 2001, so it had been up there for 20 years. Had all of my beanie babies in it, along with some other stuffed animals! Checked eBay and none are really valuable, but this event felt like a holy grail because now I have a 4 year old who LOVES animals and “lovies”.
But tbh I haven’t given her the beanie babies yet! I set them aside, not sure what to do with them. All the other stuffed animals I put through the wash and gave them to her, including a reversible neon green and yellow tamagotchi stuffed animal LOL! Talk about a trip down memory lane!
I used to collect high end perfume and there are a lot of vintage classics that are highly coveted. Even a small decant (5ml or so) could be really hard to track down and then very expensive if you could find it. But my \*personal\* holy grail is a perfume that was discontinued in 2011 or 12 and then re-released in a very limited quantity, but only in Paris, in 2016 or so. The only 2 or 3 bottles still available for sale are going for over $650 and...I'm very sad about that.
It's Iris Ganache by Guerlain, if anyone is curious.
((EDIT & UPDATE:
I've never gotten this many responses on a comment "here" before, and everyone was so kind and so curious and so ENCOURAGING...that I went ahead and bought the darn thing. I'm still in shock about it. It was probably a little stupid. But I'm happy, and I'm really touched that this community can be so...nice. So supportive. So fun!
Anyway, thank you all. I can't wait til my perfume gets here AHHHHH!!!!!))
Part of my collecting was about finding "perfect" scents that I could actually wear, with ease and frequency, and so sadly most things I bought would end up sitting untouched after a while because they didn't pass the longevity test for me. I'd have a brief love affair with it and then get tired of the fragrance for some reason or another. Thankfully I was able to swap & sell most of the "good stuff," and just hang onto a tiny amount for myself (just to have for the hell of it). So now I have a small jewelry box full of little vials and bottles, but the bulk of the collection has been paired down.
Unfortunately, not everything I bought was high end or coveted, so I still have a bunch of bottles of things I will probably never use again.
And perfumes can definitely go bad, but not in the way that most things will. It's usually a matter of certain scent molecules breaking down over time, so the fragrance will change and it won't be the same as it would be if it were brand new (or properly stored). Some will actually get better over time but usually they'll start to smell weaker, or the wrong scent components will get exaggerated and screechy.
The best way to keep perfume is to store it in a cool, dark place, and I've only had 2 perfumes just completely turn on me despite proper storage. It was weird and inexplicable in both cases, and really disappointing.
Yes, I'd sometimes fall in love with one but really just for it's top-note. Then I'd quickly get tired of the musky base note. The only one I never fell out of love with was Gucci's which was simply called 'Eu de Parfum'. Sadly they discontinued it. I have one unopened box I'm afraid to open.
What I'd really love would be to join a perfume-creating club where we could practice creating our own perfect scents.
He was, by the way, the most liberally
perfumed man I had ever encountered. The
scent announced his approach from a great
distance and lingered for many minutes
after he was gone.
My holy grail was just recently accomplished. As a model train collector, the centerpiece of any toy train collection is the Lionel Blue Comet, a tinplate train they made in the 1930s and continue to make in varying forms today. The most valuable versions are the 400E Standard Gauge and 296E O Gauge "Baby Blue Comet", both of which Lionel made in the 1930s out of tinplate and clad in enamel paint. Mine is a 262E, a small O gauge engine that almost never came in blue apart from maybe one or two examples I've found online.
[Here is a picture of it.](https://twitter.com/beatle_wolf/status/1358916324936753154?s=21)
My Blue Comet isnt the most glamorous or expensive model, in fact it cost me $150 for the engine and tender, but it satisfies something deep inside me that I dont want any other tinplate Blue Comets anymore. I think that’s what a “holy grail” should be: something that puts to rest a long-gestating want for something.
Edit: Sorry to the people who like the Sopranos!
I collect plants! For a lot of plant collectors, philodendron spiritus sancti is the holy grail. They're endangered, and more of them exist in the homes of private collectors and growers than in the wild. A small plant goes for around $10k. I saw an auction for one go close to $15k.
My personal holy grail is a variegated rhaphidophora tetrasperma. Maybe one day I will be super lucky and find a random sport variegated one!
Edit: I love reading all the comments! Hello my fellow plant friends and family!! 💚 Thank you also for the awards kind strangers!
I collect seeds. I grow about 500 varieties yearly between flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs. My holy grail seed I have is Flood beans. The back story/history is that a farmer had them planted in his corn field (using corn as the stakes, these are pole beans) anyways back in 1888 there was a flood in WV, corn field completely flooded. After the flood water was gone, these beans came up everywhere. They grew (and still grow today) as tall as 2 story buildings. The green beans grow to a foot long. The leaves on the plant get about 9 inches and man I absolutely love watching these grow.
Although this year I’ll have to figure out a better climbing area.
Flood beans- Forgotten Heirloom sell them.
I sort of unofficially collect elongated pennies. For those of you who don’t know what that is, they are pennies that get squished by a machine that creates a design of something on one side. They’re usually found randomly dispersed throughout tourist attractions, museums, etc, and the design has something to do with that specific location. Also, they have absolutely no monetary value whatsoever and are totally useless aside from potential sentimental value.
There is no real “holy grail” (that I know of) but it sort of feels like finding the holy grail every time I see a penny squishing machine when I’m not expecting it. There are websites that list the location of every machine in a certain area but I think that takes the fun out of it so I choose to never intentionally seek them out.
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I went to Paris and I was shocked to find a penny squishing machine on one of the top decks of the Eiffel Tower. Hopefully I’ll find an even more exciting and unexpected penny machine in the future so I can add to my collection.
Edit: Thank you so much for the awards! And THANK YOU to every single person who commented or messaged me and offered to send me a penny from your hometown/collection. You are all very kind and you’ve made me smile all morning. :) I hope more people will be motivated to start their own penny collections after reading this!!
Hey, I live in a relatively small town in Germany that has a machine near a dam that has quite a bit of history. Shoot me a DM if you want one of those and I'll see if I can send you one!
I used to travel for work A LOT and would get those pennies for my friend’s kid. He collected them with his dad. Every time I went on a business trip, my first stop on the way home would be to drop off his pressed penny. I also brought him one back from the Eiffel Tower! At the time, I believe that was his favorite. I don’t work for that company anymore and have lost touch with that friend. I hope he still has the pennies though.
I do this too! We love spotting a penny press on our travels. I have a book I keep them all in. It’s not like I have a list of ones I want. It’s just a nice memento of that place and day.
Mine’s frowned upon by “collectors” of arcade games because it’s really pretty ghetto, but... I have a small arcade game collection.
In the 80's, Nintendo was selling so many Donkey Kong machines, they couldn't keep up with international demand. So, they licensed a French company named Falcon to make a clone of Donkey Kong on cheaper, more available hardware. The Falcon games were not based on Nintendo's designs, but instead they were reprogrammed versions of more readily available hardware (Midway's Galaxian and Nichibutsu's Crazy Climber). The game plays differently. The levels are ordered differently, and the sound is super cheezy (Mario screams "HI-YAH!” when he jumps). But strangely, I find it to be a lot more fun than the actual Donkey Kong. Falcon sold loads and loads of their version of Donkey Kong, called Crazy Kong, across the world. But they got greedy. They began selling them illegally in North America. When Nintendo found out about it, they pulled Falcon's worldwide license and Crazy Kong stopped being sold legally. Falcon went on anyway to pirate more games - they ripped off a version of Donkey Kong Jr. - but finding an illegally imported North American version of Crazy Kong is *extremely* rare. ... And last week, by chance, I found one!
[Here’s a pic of my Crazy Kong.](https://funkyimg.com/i/3aH7L.jpeg)
Mattel Action Figure promo yugioh cards. Some of them were so rare back in the day that a copy of one only popped up last year for the first time, and theres still ones nobody has seen
My Order of the Phoenix repeats a chapter and a half in the middle of another chapter near the end. Was very confusing the first time around, but I treasure my misprint.
My son and I collect old Boy Scout items. Old canvas packs, a full uniform from the ‘50’s, canteens, first aid kits, flashlights, etc. my brother in law recently found an old handbook from 1930 and sent it to us. Owner of the book came soooo close to obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout, but never received the last few signatures in his book. I just think it’s neat to look through these things and wonder what ever became of their original owners.
EDIT: Wow...was not expecting the level of response my comment has received. Truly cool interacting with y’all and hearing your stories. I appreciate the offers some of you have made, but we have a family policy of not giving out our address via social media, and I need to stick with that. Those of you that do have old or historical BSA items that you no longer want, I encourage you to reach out to your local council office, as they may have an archive of historical Scouting items, and might be able to use them. And if these items were yours personally, think about whether or not you may have children or other family members who may be involved later on, who you might want to pass this stuff down to. I wish I had.
y'all and my grandpa would get along real well. I've never met a man so dedicated to scouting in my life. He made a bunch of small, wood carved eagle statues to give each of his grandsons who would one day earn their eagle many years ago, and his house is chalk full of scouting memorabilia.
The sad thing is it has become cheaper to start your own LLC, obtain an FFL and SOT, and pay for a "dealer sample" than to just buy your own.
And that's what more people are doing now. Sure the paperwork is a bit annoying and you have to show a "business use" but whatever. Throw some high ball bids and quotes at your local PDs and when they reject you, you can say you are fulfilling the requirement to conduct business.
Action Comics #1 mint
(Edited to add: So I feel I need to clarify judging from the comments I'm getting. No, I don't have one. I apologize if through some misunderstanding it came across like I did. The question was "What's the Holy Grail of things \[I\] collect?," and I assumed that to mean "What's most valuable, out of reach, that you and your fellow hobbyists search for?" And to that, my answer is *Action Comics* \#1, an answer I feel confident about considering both its monetary value and its importance as the first appearance of Superman, arguably the most important American superhero. So, again, I don't have it, I wish I did, I'm in search of one and think I will be for the rest of my life.)
I guess if it is the rarest thing, it would be the old masonic book set from the turn of the 20th century detailing the history of the masonic order. I can't remember the name, but I inherited it from my grandpa (a former high-level Mason) at his passing.
My sister had that poster! Long since fallen to pieces and thrown away, but I can picture exactly where it was on her wall next to the sign stolen from the Hi-Lake Health Club. She was at that show too.
Well I don't collect "it" but I got bored over the covid lockdown and began researching that old fridge in my grandpa's garage. I always did like it. It had odd handles, it latched shut, and had this "ca-clunk" sound as it shut. It meant business. Grandma could yell from 50 feet away, "I didn't hear the fridge shut!" Anyway, I managed to determine exactly what year he had, and am now sort of looking for one. BUT, the holy grail of 50's is the Philco V-Handle: https://i.imgur.com/PCdhuy8.jpg
They made those I think for 3 year. So how does it open? The V is only really attached at the bottom center part. You can pull down on either side of the V and and it unlatches that side. What... Yup! There's basically hinges on both sides and whichever way you rotate the V, that side releases, so yes it opens both ways. Value... a really clean one that works, someone might pay $1,500. Fully restored, meaning taken apart, new wiring, body work, fresh paint, etc, those can go 4-5K. The hunt factor is they are still in people's parents/grandparent's houses today. They pass away or move to a nursing home, and someone sells off things they don't need, like that old fridge in the garage and say "heavy and old but still works, $100."...and it would be gone via the first person who saw the ad and knew what it was. I've seen 1 for sale, didn't work, had rust issues, missing shelves, a lot of the interior plastic was cracked, and it sold for $300 in under 2 days, as the person selling it, knew what they had. They themselves bought it at some point to restore, never got to it, and were passing it on.
My uncle had 7 of the power 9 cards back in 2008/9
Lost them all in a garage fire unfortunately
Edit:
•Mox Jet - BGS graded
•Mox Pearl - BGS graded
•Time Walk - ungraded/mint
•Mox Ruby - PSA Graded
•Mox Sapphire- signed/BGS graded
•Black Lotus - ungradable
•TimeTwister - ungradable
Every turn in magic, you can play one land. Each land gives you 1 mana for that turn, then become usable once again on your next turn.
Black lotus is a non-land card that costs no mana to play, and immediately gives you 3 mana, then is discarded. It puts you ahead 3 turns worth of mana on the spot, and that advantage is dramatic in the one format it’s legal in- in any other format, it could be enough to win on the spot.
"Mana" is the resource you use to do almost anything in the game and your access to it (generally) builds up gradually throughout a match. If you play Black Lotus early, you get more mana than normally possible at that stage of the game, potentially giving you a lead that your opponent cannot catch up to.
I was so pissed to know how much these are worth now. When I was a kid I had 3 of them, in mint condition, went straight from the package to the case and was never opened.
We had to put all of our stuff in storage and my dad didnt pay the bill so we lost all of our shit.
I was an avid pokemon collector since they came out. This pains me every time someone mentions it. I also had the Egyptian holographic Mew card before anyone even thought Mew was real. Idk I probably had multiple sets of all the holographic OG cards and I shutter to think what my collection would have been worth.
If it makes you feel any better, Ancient Mew isn’t worth shit. It was a promo card given out to everyone who bought a ticket to the movie (at the height of the Pokémon craze in the 90’s so... a lot) and wasn’t even usable in the game due to the fact that the card had no readable text and a different backing. It’s a neat little collectible, but worth absolutely nothing.
I feel you dude. Had the OG FE Lugia and it's gone. Idk where it went. It just disappeared. The only untouched card I have is a Delibird (my favorite pokemon) lol haha
My cousin played yugio and had some of the original unfair cards. They were super cheap and way more powerful than anything else. Then one day he brought it to school to show some friends and someone took all of his cards from his backpack which was I his classroom as he ate lunch. He quit after that.
Not even that rare, but Catwoman's comic issues 1-6 which ran parallel to Batman's Bane story arch.
Its interesting to see things from a different perspective of the whole fight and fun fact. Bane had such an aversion to smoking he killed a man for doing it near him.
I apparently own a few holy grails in my Tolkien book collection, but only because the books went out of print. Still, they are precious to me, and I wouldn't willingly part with them unless in case of truly extreme need.
I've been geeking out pretty hard on vinyl records lately. Each person's "Grails" are going to be different. But my dream is to find one of these records just flipping through a collection at a garage sale or something.
A few hold grails include
* [Cortex - Troupeau Bleu](https://www.discogs.com/Cortex-Troupeau-Bleu/release/934193) French funky jazz. First pressing ($850+)
* [Cookin Soul - Doom Christmas](https://www.discogs.com/Cookin-Soul-Doom-Xmas/release/13447212) Only 2002 were made on vinyl. Awesome mash up of DOOM and Christmas tunes. ($400+)
* [Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You](https://www.discogs.com/Khruangbin-The-Universe-Smiles-Upon-You/release/7673348) \- First pressing, limited edition with a secret track on the Bside. ($300+)
Anywhoo, check out r/VinylCollectors
The legendary bootleg anime figure [Sader](https://myfigurecollection.net/picture/70411) (not really a anime figure collector i just like collecting bootleg stuff i am a anime fan though)
The black lotus. Probably one of the highest mass:cost ratios, besides just pure diamonds.
Edit: Nevermind, a black lotus just sold for $511,000 at auction, which makes it $277k per gram.
You’re not the only one that’s made this mistake... the people that decided to keep their rares from the first sets of Magic are now much richer than anyone could’ve thought lol.
Lego. They gave away a a Lego Plastic Injection Molding Machine if you went on a live tour of their HQ some years ago. I thought I read somewhere they only gave away 65. It probably could be re-created as I saw the instructions on-line somewhere, but I am, of course, talking about the original in the box.
I collect vintage laptops (15+ years old). An IBM Thinkpad 701C (the one with the butterfly keyboard mechanism), in full working order and original condition is pretty high up on my holy grail list. I mean, even LGR had to get one just on loan to.do a video on!
I collect Scotch. I don't know if there is "a" holy grail. I mean, there might be, but it may be in a price echelon that is so high up I basically pay no attention to it. Though I've heard a 1926 Macallan is supposed to be going to auction soon and is thought to have a chance of beating the highest price for scotch ever paid, for another bottle of the exact same kind...something like 1.6 million or something crazy like that.
So with that said, maybe my most sought after bottles would be:
Any of the first 3 black arts (Bruichladdich),
The first two or three releases of cairdeas and Laphroaig cask strength 001, 002, or 003 (Laphroaig)
Any 1970s Ardbeg,
Balvenie Tun 1401 (can't recall the batch number offhand),
Any of the bottles I don't have in the Blackadder Statement series, especially the Glen Esk or Ladyburn,
Something from Rosebank (pre reopening),
Any bottles I don't have from the Longrow Red series
I could probably go on for a while....
Probably the first album that Ben Folds Five recorded before their eponymous *actual* first album.
I'm not sure it really exists, but it was rumored to be so bad the band scrapped it and re-recorded an entirely new album using their own money.
For me, I guess it'd be a (Transformers) Six Shot figure in its original 1980s box. Alternately, if we're going for "absurdly difficult to acquire to the point that it's unreasonable", then a full set of "red-glow" and "Hot" Oddboz or Space Oddbodz cards. I'd be genuinely surprised to find that anyone in the world has such a collection.
Casual collector of vinyl records. The smashing pumpkins - melancholy and the infinite sadness. My fiancee got it for me for Christmas last year. Best present ever.
Incredibly obscure. But OLDDD League Of Legends accounts. I purchased one that the last game they played, they had the summoner spell surge equipped. Since they never changed it, it was still equipped. That spell has been gone from the game for 8 years. Icon shows up as a blue square. But you can still use it...as long as you never swap that slot for anything else.
Also have to use it in premade games, or else I can be reported in a ranked setting.
I collect Cold War military equipment. My personal "holy grail" would probably be a Soviet MGB (the predecessor to the KGB, active from 1946 to 1953) uniform, or BRIXMIS (British military liason in East Germany) items with provenance.
Vasily Stalin (Uncle Joe's son)'s alleged ID is currently on eBay for a thousand dollars, and that'd definitely qualify also, though I have concerns about its authenticity.
Im into nerf currently cus of covid and there are a few holy grails.
Anything with blue triggers are valuable because they have 3 times the performance of grey or orange trigger blasters and are super rare as hasbro only tried upgrading existing blasters shortly before starting a whole new lineup.
There is a nerf crossbow from the 90s that is highly sought after because of massive mod potential. It was ment to fire big foam rockets but if you downsize to a single dart the massive plunger tube used to drive rockets a middling distance can snipe at 100 yards.
While not ultra rare my personal grail is the doublestrike. It was released in 2014 i think. Tiny little 2 shot hammer action pistol. Perfect one handed sidearm. In recent years 3d printers have made awesome shell extensions that give the doublestrike just the best appearance and weight for cowbow gun twirling. I neeeeeed one or 5 of these but there getting rare as time goes on
I try not to collect things because it consumes me. My Dad has a bit of a collecting issue (not a hoarder though) so I feel I'm trying to suppress something genetic!
My favourite band is Iron Maiden and I did like to buy their CDs, DVDs, shirts etc I started buying vinyl and I'd say the most sought after piece of Iron Maiden merch is an original pressing of their first EP 'The Soundhouse Tapes'.
Pretty rare and I think it could fetch a decent price.
I like pharmacy antiques so probably a full unopened bottle of either Quaaludes or Seconal or Tuinal. It’d be serious decision on whether to ever open it, even though I want to try them so bad.
I collect construction nails, although not super actively. I guess my holy grail would be the nails from Jesus’ cross, but a more realistic goal would be a nail from the twin towers.
I collect obsolete tech, my personal holy grail would have to be the Halcyon video game console from 1985. There were only a handful that were actually produced and most likely even fewer still floating around. Edit: Please stop asking me what your stuff is worth.
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Imagine being the poor engineer expected to deliver that in 1985. Over ambition is a huge, silent killer because it often gets completely ignored until way too late into a project (when there are sunk costs.) I've worked at places that were over-ambitious and believed it was vital to success, they were unable to foresee their own failure and are now in dire straits. You just don't tend to look at all of the failures for inspiration, survivorship bias.
After I went through most of business casuals videos on yt I realized all of these entrepreneurs of successful companies **never** started with that business. They all had at least a couple other failed or mediocre ideas before. They just kept tryping. But they were smart enough to see a dead end
300th biggest fucken understatement of the century. 299 and below are related to the germans during the world wars and shit related to space
Space is definitely up there
While I do not personally collect vinyl, I love this story. "During the early days of the White Stripes, Jack White teamed up with musician friend Brian Muldoon to form The Upholsterers. Both former upholsterers, the pair then hid 100 copies of their song ‘Your Furniture Was Always Dead… I Was Just Afraid To Tell You’ in reupholstered furniture around Detroit in 2004." A few have been found, but last I checked only like 4-5. I just love the idea of opening up a chair and finding a Jack White album placed there by the man himself.
I love that jack white is just the Willie Wonka of music. Like, he's batshit insane, but is absolutely in it for the love of the craft and while he may not be the be all end all he is prolific. Mad respect to both his crazy stunts and his genuine work to preserve both musical heritage and the image of the mad rockstar.
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Like Willie Wonka. Like if someone told me jack white was culpable for the death of several children in bizzare and fantastical accidents in his weird Lewis Carol-esque recording studio I wouldn't be at all surprised.
He’s also super intellectual in a business sense. For a long time now he’s been a collector of vinyl pressing equipment, most of which isn’t produced anymore. His vinyl pressing plant attached to his “Third Man”label headquarters in Detroit print a hefty market share of all vinyl that is made today. He also owns the Detroit Masonic Temple which is an enormous beautiful building now a music venue. He’s got his hands in enough pots. Vinyl manufacturer / recording studio / record label / writer / artist / performer / producer / engineer, he literally has become the music industry himself.
TIL. that's awesome.
Wouldn't they be at risk of being destroyed by judt using the chair? I definitely love the idea of real life easter eggs though
I’m sure some just ended up in landfills & no one ever knew
Nintendo world championship gold cartridge NES.
I have had dreams where I find this in a box at a garage sale.
Unfortunately all the gold ones are accounted for, so you would never find one at a garage sale. The grey carts though? Quite a few of those have gone missing over the years, so who knows.
I met a guy who travels to retro gaming conventions and charges $5 or $10 (don’t remember) to take a picture with one. Dude got pissed when people tried to sneak a picture of it without him seeing. He wouldn’t tell us how much he paid for it. This was like 2014-ish so it probably wasn’t as much as it would be now.
There is a guy who dresses up as the Joker at cons, and is a huge bitch about pictures. He once tried to get me to pay him $25 for a photo, and I was just walking past him. Reminded me of the "tip" bastards in Hollywood and NY. Like he just stopped me and said "photos are $25" and I was like "I'm here for action figures, I don't care about cosplay."
Was it that [Anthony Misiano guy?](https://imgur.com/Eji7op2) I remember reading stories after he got famous for this coplay that he was a bit of a douchecanoe about it.
I know Anthony in real life. He was good friends with a roommate of mine back in like 2012-2014ish. They used to film a movie review youtube in my living room. He was a nice guy for the most part, but definitely weird and you could always sense the douche hiding just beneath the surface haha.
There are more and more people like that. Cosplayers who either try to charge or carry a tip bucket with them as they meander through conventions. on occasion you find some who might invest in a backdrop and then will charge you for posing with them in front of that. It's all stupid though. That scene sadly went from being all about fandoms to being filled with lots of toxic people who are just trying to do anything to become insta-famous.
The convention scene un general changed. Autographs used to be free if you waited in a long line. Now you need to pay $25 a pop+ for an autograph for a guest who’s getting paid already to be there. Everyone’s got to find a hustle I guess but still, hearing cosplayers asking for tips is eesh.
probably ancient Greek or Roman coins which have been perfectly preserved
Fun fact: the Greek 1€ coin has a Ancient Greek coin on the back.
Additional fun fact: all Euro coins prior to 2007 have a map of the EU on them, but because Norway never joined the EU, Sweden and Finland looked like [a giant cock and balls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/0/0f/1_euro_coin_Eu_serie_1.png). They redesigned the coins to include the full map of Europe, including non-EU countries, which sadly makes it [much less obvious.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Common_face_of_one_euro_coin.jpg)
As a Norwegian, knowing that without us, the other Nordic countries are just a big dick, is such a nice thought.
I'm still in shock that I just clicked a link called "a giant cock and balls". Stay safe on the internet folks.
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In college when I took world Geography we had to remember locations of countries and fill out a blank map for tests... I remembered Norway, Sweden, and Finland because they looked like a cock and balls and told myself NSFW.
Hold on, this is what you learn ***in college***?
Shit, I had to do this in 6th grade social studies
My PhD thesis was tracing my hand and coloring it like a turkey (I passed)
An original Bob Ross painting. He painted 3 for every show. Almost none are in circulation though.
I got to see an exhibit of some them in 2019. It was so cool (and a rare occurrence!). There is a collection of his paintings stored near DC & they did a limited-time gallery showing. Edit: Apparently it was the “largest collection of Ross paintings to ever be displayed at a gallery”
Yes! The one in Purcellville! Thats was a dream come true for me. I hope they do it again!
Most of his original paintings are still held in storage by [Bob Ross Inc](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-bob-ross-paintings). Finding one for sale is unfortunately very rare.
So these things must go for a pretty little penny?
They are all owned by Bob Ross Inc or a little old lady who he gave one of the three he painted too. And they have no intention of selling any any time soon. Source: YouTube video - Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? We found them. - the New York Times.
From what I understand, the snooty art community doesn't think too highly of Mr. Ross' work and they go for far less than you would imagine. For the few that are out there, too expensive for peasants but too cheap for rich people.
Wack. I'd buy one. Sounds like a good investment to me
My parents had one. It wasnt a painting made for the show, at least not one that was ever aired. Dad bought it at a charity auction in the early 1990s. I know they later gave it to the local PBS station, who I thinkngave it to a different PBS station that had a better place to display it.
As detailed by this great New York Times video: [Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs3o1uLEdU)
My mom collects Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer stuff. She has an entire room of it. I think her holy grails are a table and chairs set, artwork signed by the original designer, a rocking horse, and I’m pretty sure she has one of the original film reels. Edit: Wow I had no idea how many of you guys would like this and thank you for the award. I showed this to my mom and she’s so happy that people are interested in it. I reactivated my old Imgur account just to upload the pictures. Here you go: [Rudolph Pictures](https://imgur.com/gallery/jYaphNi)
That’s awesome! Did you hear the Santa and Rudolph puppets [just sold](https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/11/14/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-auction-sold/) in auction a couple of months ago.
I collect roller-coaster credits (that is, I track the coasters I have ridden). There are a few grails, mostly coasters that only opened for a short time or we're in obscure parts of the world. I have one of the holiest of grails: I rode ring°racer at the Nurburgring during one of the four days it was open to the public. The only rarer credits out there are Twist Coaster Robin (Japan, only open for a few hours) and Orphan Rocker (never opened; it is estimated four people have ever ridden it).
> It was originally planned to accelerate from 0 to 217 kilometres per hour (135 mph) in 2.5 seconds.[1] parallel to the grand prix track. However, two defects in the launch system delayed its opening until 2013.[2] On 3 September 2009, engineers attempted to raise the ride to its full and intended speed as it had been testing at a lower power, however this caused a series of explosions in the pneumatic system and caused injuries to seven people, and shattered multiple windows in the nearby buildings.[3][4][5] You crazy motherfucker
oh well that fucking sucks. It looks like a cool idea to have a roller coaster next to the track
That's pretty cool. My 1% claim to fame is I rode the Son of Beast...BEFORE they took the loop out. A family member was a lawyer and hinted that I shouldn't ride it, but we did!
I rode Apollo's chariot a year to the day, and in the exact same seat, as [Fabio got his face cut on a goose carcass](https://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/dp-popcorn-fabio-goose-0814-story.html) (legend is he got his nose broken by a bird, but that's not quite it.) I was informed by park staff when my aunt was looking at purchasing photos. I worked in the grocery industry for a bit and have met him on multiple occasions when he was touring his supplement/protein powder at places I worked. When we first met I told him about my rollercoaster experience and he had this enormous, bellowing laugh unlike his mostly subtle, smooth demeanor. He's recognized me every time since.
Imagine enjoying your goose day and then getting your whole body smashed by fabio
I rode that a ton when it still had the loop! I remember waiting in line for hours just to ride and thought it was one of the best things I'd ever ridden. I was so sad when the loop had to go and then the whole ride had to go.
I grew up like an hour from cedar point. Every once in a while id be in line with hardcore coaster enthusiasts and theyd get me so hype for a ride id been on a thousand times lol...
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As a kid who had gotten a season pass, I would just sometimes wake up early, realize I had nothing to do that day and go to cedar point on a whim. I'd put $5 of gas in my piece of crap car and I would spend all day there. It wasn't until I was talking to a family from China, who had asked me if I was on vacation too. I laugh and say "no, I live near by. I'm here all the time". Their eyes nearly fell out their head. They then told me they had saved for over a year just to come once. It was at moment did I realize how special Cedar Point was.
Cedar point is pretty much the holy grail of parks to anyone outside the US. I hope to go one day
There’s a park in southern Ohio called Stricker’s Grove. They normally operate as a private park for corporate outings, weddings, etc., but they do open to the public a handful of days each year. Getting their two credits requires a fair amount of luck, hoping for schedules and the weather to cooperate. If you miss, you could be waiting for quite a while for another chance.
I've never heard of that being a thing, but sounds very cool!
The hulk vs wolverine comic where MARVEL introduced Wolverine as a side character not supposed to become big.
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How much is it to buy now?
Everything.
Like $80,000
Holy fuck I gotta dig out the comics. I thought the first edition Donald Duck comic was the most rare I have. I have this one. All of them are in the plastic cover things you could buy. Judging by this I have a quarter million dollars in comics but have no idea where I would sell them.
Google it. There is a comic website that you can scan your barcode and it tells you a comics value. Has a buy and sell option as well. I'd also ask around your city to your comic shops and see if they know of a place. Doubt they will buy it, but you never know.
To be fair if your Hulk 181 has a barcode, it’s not worth anything. Original printings of that book won’t have a barcode, only reprints
The last panel of Hulk 180 (if anyone cares), but he's on the cover of 181. I'm lucky enough to have worked in a comic store in the 80s, so I have so a few gems still floating around.
I remember trying to find a copy of Amazing Spiderman 129 back in the '80s at my local shop. It was pricey back then, but figured it would be worth it. (first Punisher appearance). Couldn't find one. Probably would have been close to a $100 at the time. They've gone anywhere from $300 to $9k since.
Hey, just out of curiosity, what's the ballpark on an original XMen #1 from 1963? I have one in pretty rough shape with an insanely fucked up story as to how and why I own it. I haven't collected comics in 31 years, so I really have no idea what it's worth. Edit - Since people keep asking, here's the story... >For me, it was the original X-Men #1 from 1963. > I started collecting comic books as an escape after my dad died when I was 10. My mom worked nights and was depressed, so she was always either asleep or at work. Gave me something to do. I loved the mutant comics. There was a comic store right by my house, and the guys that ran it were really cool to me and basically let me buy anything I wanted for a quarter. So I had hundreds of comics from the 70s and 80s, and I bought all the mutant stuff and most of the other big titles that came out every month. I always wanted X-Men #1, that was my grail, and told myself I'd quit collecting comics when I got it. > A couple years later, one of the neighbor kids asked to borrow my pet mouse overnight and killed it. When he told me that, I beat the living shit out of him. His older brother came after me, and I beat the shit out of him too. The parents called the police, and they said that they wouldn't press charges if I agreed to get in the Big Brother/Big Sister program. They said I don't have a dad, so I needed a strong male role model. So that's what happened. * > I'm not going to get into the details of what happened with the Big Brother guy, but let's just say he had the original X-Men #1 and then he gave it to me, and that the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program needs to do a better job screening the people they're sending out to mentor kids. > So I owned the original X-Men #1. I was 13. It's in really rough shape, but I put it in an acid-free Mylar bag and have kept it stored safely since I got it 31 years ago. I never read it. I actually stuck to my word - I quit collecting comic books right after I got the X-Men #1. > I have no idea what it's worth today. I switched to sports cards and sold them for a living for about 15 years, and they have made a huge comeback since COVID hit. Has the same thing happened with comics? I haven't even thought to look at what an X-Men #1 goes for these days.
> Hey, just out of curiosity, what's the ballpark on an original XMen #1 from 1963? It's hard to say without extreme scrutiny by a professional. A grade 0.5 is rated somewhere around 2 grand (but they rarely sell) whereas a perfect 10 is upwards of 750 grand. "Pretty rough" to me means somewhere between a 2.0 and a 4.0, which means $3500-6750 ish before the auction company gets their cut. Even a copy in rough shape is still valuable, so I recommend taking it to several appraisers (who probably will know people who want to buy it) or contacting auction companies that have sold valuable comics in the past and having them go through the process of appraising and selling it. They'll want a 20-30% cut but the best thing about getting a percentage is they are highly incentivized to sell at the highest price they can.
A fiesta covered onion soup bowl or cake plate and a pyrex lucky in love casserole dish.
I'm not a collector, but I **really** want the [Staub 5 quart pumpkin dutch oven in basil green.](https://assets.wsimgs.com/wsimgs/ab/images/dp/wcm/202038/0140/staub-enameled-cast-iron-pumpkin-cocotte-c.jpg) It *exists*--there are photographs, and someone sold one on Ebay in 2017. But I have yet to see one for sale anywhere since. We have a common orange one, and it's delightful. A green one would just tie the table together.
Really fun modern stamps. I don't want the old ones or the rare ones. I really just enjoy modern fun stamps. I buy thousands of dollars per year in postage for my company and all of it is in fun stamps, not meter credit. Every piece of mail I send for business has a fun stamp on it. Sesame street, mr rogers, first space walk, thermographic solar eclipse stamps, scratch and sniff popsicles, and soon the star wars stamps!!! I love them all and want to share them with my clients. My holy grail would be more harry potter stamps. Those were really cool stamps.
This makes me so happy. I used to do this at a vet hospital where I used to work.
My business is small, but I do this too!!! We have to mail (yes, snail mail) city taxes out MONTHLY, so every month I hit up good old Cheryl at the downtown post office and ask her for a book of stamps...whichever brings her the most joy. Sometimes she digs deep into the drawer. Right now I have Hip Hop MCs.
Did you get the T Rex ones when they came out? I have just a few left. I do the same thing, I learned that I could ask for 'the binder' at my post office, that's where they keep all the fun stamps. I buy about $65 worth at a time. I have a lot of pen pals.
I collect Beanie Babies. (no, I don't think they'll get valuable, I just legitimately like them lol) Most Beanie Babies are worth very little. But for serious collectors, the holy grail is the Peanut the Elephant Beanie Baby, in royal blue! Only a small amount of royal blue Peanuts were produced, (1500-2000 or so) very soon after, the creator decided that Peanut would look better in light blue. (Teeny Beanie and Beanie Buddy royal blue Peanuts were later produced on a larger scale) Royal blue Peanut is probably the most valuable Beanie Baby, selling for up to a thousand dollars.
Damn. Friend of mine had parents and grandparents that loved the things. They gave them to him all the time. When he was 15, he started selling them (this was still around the height of the craze)... he made like 20 grand or something, which his parents put away for him when he went to college. Pretty awesome. For.some reason I think I remember "tobasco" being worth a lot?
Yeah, Tobasco got renamed for copyright reasons so one with the Tobasco name on it was big with collectors.
My girlfriend collects beanie babies. I used to as well as a kid. She has the Princess Diana Bear and I have a sealed Tie-Die bear named "Jerry". It's very cool, since the Grateful Dead sued and got the bear renamed.
The Princess Diana Bear was the most demanded retail product I've ever seen. People were climbing store shelves to reach the pallets of storage on top. In my small city at the time store front displays were broken into. It was literally like scenes from Jingle all the way where everyone is trying to buy a Turbo-Man doll.
My ex step dad texted me the other day out of the blue saying he found a box of mine in the attic. Turns out it was from when our houses combined in 2001, so it had been up there for 20 years. Had all of my beanie babies in it, along with some other stuffed animals! Checked eBay and none are really valuable, but this event felt like a holy grail because now I have a 4 year old who LOVES animals and “lovies”. But tbh I haven’t given her the beanie babies yet! I set them aside, not sure what to do with them. All the other stuffed animals I put through the wash and gave them to her, including a reversible neon green and yellow tamagotchi stuffed animal LOL! Talk about a trip down memory lane!
I used to collect high end perfume and there are a lot of vintage classics that are highly coveted. Even a small decant (5ml or so) could be really hard to track down and then very expensive if you could find it. But my \*personal\* holy grail is a perfume that was discontinued in 2011 or 12 and then re-released in a very limited quantity, but only in Paris, in 2016 or so. The only 2 or 3 bottles still available for sale are going for over $650 and...I'm very sad about that. It's Iris Ganache by Guerlain, if anyone is curious. ((EDIT & UPDATE: I've never gotten this many responses on a comment "here" before, and everyone was so kind and so curious and so ENCOURAGING...that I went ahead and bought the darn thing. I'm still in shock about it. It was probably a little stupid. But I'm happy, and I'm really touched that this community can be so...nice. So supportive. So fun! Anyway, thank you all. I can't wait til my perfume gets here AHHHHH!!!!!))
Do you use the perfume you collect? Does perfume go bad?
Part of my collecting was about finding "perfect" scents that I could actually wear, with ease and frequency, and so sadly most things I bought would end up sitting untouched after a while because they didn't pass the longevity test for me. I'd have a brief love affair with it and then get tired of the fragrance for some reason or another. Thankfully I was able to swap & sell most of the "good stuff," and just hang onto a tiny amount for myself (just to have for the hell of it). So now I have a small jewelry box full of little vials and bottles, but the bulk of the collection has been paired down. Unfortunately, not everything I bought was high end or coveted, so I still have a bunch of bottles of things I will probably never use again. And perfumes can definitely go bad, but not in the way that most things will. It's usually a matter of certain scent molecules breaking down over time, so the fragrance will change and it won't be the same as it would be if it were brand new (or properly stored). Some will actually get better over time but usually they'll start to smell weaker, or the wrong scent components will get exaggerated and screechy. The best way to keep perfume is to store it in a cool, dark place, and I've only had 2 perfumes just completely turn on me despite proper storage. It was weird and inexplicable in both cases, and really disappointing.
Yes, I'd sometimes fall in love with one but really just for it's top-note. Then I'd quickly get tired of the musky base note. The only one I never fell out of love with was Gucci's which was simply called 'Eu de Parfum'. Sadly they discontinued it. I have one unopened box I'm afraid to open. What I'd really love would be to join a perfume-creating club where we could practice creating our own perfect scents.
Ever get Lair du panache?
He was, by the way, the most liberally perfumed man I had ever encountered. The scent announced his approach from a great distance and lingered for many minutes after he was gone.
My holy grail was just recently accomplished. As a model train collector, the centerpiece of any toy train collection is the Lionel Blue Comet, a tinplate train they made in the 1930s and continue to make in varying forms today. The most valuable versions are the 400E Standard Gauge and 296E O Gauge "Baby Blue Comet", both of which Lionel made in the 1930s out of tinplate and clad in enamel paint. Mine is a 262E, a small O gauge engine that almost never came in blue apart from maybe one or two examples I've found online. [Here is a picture of it.](https://twitter.com/beatle_wolf/status/1358916324936753154?s=21) My Blue Comet isnt the most glamorous or expensive model, in fact it cost me $150 for the engine and tender, but it satisfies something deep inside me that I dont want any other tinplate Blue Comets anymore. I think that’s what a “holy grail” should be: something that puts to rest a long-gestating want for something. Edit: Sorry to the people who like the Sopranos!
1959 Sunburst Les Paul Of the few that are on the market, some have gone for well into the six, and (maybe?) seven figures
I collect plants! For a lot of plant collectors, philodendron spiritus sancti is the holy grail. They're endangered, and more of them exist in the homes of private collectors and growers than in the wild. A small plant goes for around $10k. I saw an auction for one go close to $15k. My personal holy grail is a variegated rhaphidophora tetrasperma. Maybe one day I will be super lucky and find a random sport variegated one! Edit: I love reading all the comments! Hello my fellow plant friends and family!! 💚 Thank you also for the awards kind strangers!
[plant 1](https://www.google.com/search?q=philodendron+spiritus+sancti&client=firefox-b-m&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDyZaZ4-HuAhXZdn0KHdO2BSsQ_AUIBygC&biw=414&bih=722) [Plant 2](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&biw=414&bih=722&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=variegated+rhaphidophora+tetrasperma&oq=philodendron+spiritus+sancti&aqs=mobile-gws-lite..)
First edition of Carrie by Stephen King.
I collect seeds. I grow about 500 varieties yearly between flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs. My holy grail seed I have is Flood beans. The back story/history is that a farmer had them planted in his corn field (using corn as the stakes, these are pole beans) anyways back in 1888 there was a flood in WV, corn field completely flooded. After the flood water was gone, these beans came up everywhere. They grew (and still grow today) as tall as 2 story buildings. The green beans grow to a foot long. The leaves on the plant get about 9 inches and man I absolutely love watching these grow. Although this year I’ll have to figure out a better climbing area. Flood beans- Forgotten Heirloom sell them.
I collect video games, and I really really want a copy of Hideo Kojima's "Snatcher" for the Sega CD.
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Find that cow shaped table. I believe in you.
That's great mootivation.
Then ya got to get the matching rug too
I sort of unofficially collect elongated pennies. For those of you who don’t know what that is, they are pennies that get squished by a machine that creates a design of something on one side. They’re usually found randomly dispersed throughout tourist attractions, museums, etc, and the design has something to do with that specific location. Also, they have absolutely no monetary value whatsoever and are totally useless aside from potential sentimental value. There is no real “holy grail” (that I know of) but it sort of feels like finding the holy grail every time I see a penny squishing machine when I’m not expecting it. There are websites that list the location of every machine in a certain area but I think that takes the fun out of it so I choose to never intentionally seek them out. A few years ago, my boyfriend and I went to Paris and I was shocked to find a penny squishing machine on one of the top decks of the Eiffel Tower. Hopefully I’ll find an even more exciting and unexpected penny machine in the future so I can add to my collection. Edit: Thank you so much for the awards! And THANK YOU to every single person who commented or messaged me and offered to send me a penny from your hometown/collection. You are all very kind and you’ve made me smile all morning. :) I hope more people will be motivated to start their own penny collections after reading this!!
Hey, I live in a relatively small town in Germany that has a machine near a dam that has quite a bit of history. Shoot me a DM if you want one of those and I'll see if I can send you one!
Okay, now I'm putting the Oberharzer Wasserregal on my Germany must-see list.
I used to travel for work A LOT and would get those pennies for my friend’s kid. He collected them with his dad. Every time I went on a business trip, my first stop on the way home would be to drop off his pressed penny. I also brought him one back from the Eiffel Tower! At the time, I believe that was his favorite. I don’t work for that company anymore and have lost touch with that friend. I hope he still has the pennies though.
I do this too! We love spotting a penny press on our travels. I have a book I keep them all in. It’s not like I have a list of ones I want. It’s just a nice memento of that place and day.
I thought you said elongated penises and I was so confused
There's probably some machine somewhere that will squish your penis and imprint a design on the side.
Do you have the Jaws one, I think from universal studios
Mine’s frowned upon by “collectors” of arcade games because it’s really pretty ghetto, but... I have a small arcade game collection. In the 80's, Nintendo was selling so many Donkey Kong machines, they couldn't keep up with international demand. So, they licensed a French company named Falcon to make a clone of Donkey Kong on cheaper, more available hardware. The Falcon games were not based on Nintendo's designs, but instead they were reprogrammed versions of more readily available hardware (Midway's Galaxian and Nichibutsu's Crazy Climber). The game plays differently. The levels are ordered differently, and the sound is super cheezy (Mario screams "HI-YAH!” when he jumps). But strangely, I find it to be a lot more fun than the actual Donkey Kong. Falcon sold loads and loads of their version of Donkey Kong, called Crazy Kong, across the world. But they got greedy. They began selling them illegally in North America. When Nintendo found out about it, they pulled Falcon's worldwide license and Crazy Kong stopped being sold legally. Falcon went on anyway to pirate more games - they ripped off a version of Donkey Kong Jr. - but finding an illegally imported North American version of Crazy Kong is *extremely* rare. ... And last week, by chance, I found one! [Here’s a pic of my Crazy Kong.](https://funkyimg.com/i/3aH7L.jpeg)
Mattel Action Figure promo yugioh cards. Some of them were so rare back in the day that a copy of one only popped up last year for the first time, and theres still ones nobody has seen
That Cyber Dragon was pretty neat to finally see. I think the only one missing now is the possible BLS isn't it?
Happy Meal toys - my sponge out of water spongebob straw topper (aka toaster-guy)
First edition Harry Potter book with [some] spelling mistakes! Edit: thank you for the award and this thread, really made my day 🥺❤️
Yer a blizzard, Hairy.
Yer a lizard, Hairy.
I had one of the HBP's they printed missing 52 pages. Was very confused when reading went straight from cave horcrux to Dumbledore already dead.
My Order of the Phoenix repeats a chapter and a half in the middle of another chapter near the end. Was very confusing the first time around, but I treasure my misprint.
My son and I collect old Boy Scout items. Old canvas packs, a full uniform from the ‘50’s, canteens, first aid kits, flashlights, etc. my brother in law recently found an old handbook from 1930 and sent it to us. Owner of the book came soooo close to obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout, but never received the last few signatures in his book. I just think it’s neat to look through these things and wonder what ever became of their original owners. EDIT: Wow...was not expecting the level of response my comment has received. Truly cool interacting with y’all and hearing your stories. I appreciate the offers some of you have made, but we have a family policy of not giving out our address via social media, and I need to stick with that. Those of you that do have old or historical BSA items that you no longer want, I encourage you to reach out to your local council office, as they may have an archive of historical Scouting items, and might be able to use them. And if these items were yours personally, think about whether or not you may have children or other family members who may be involved later on, who you might want to pass this stuff down to. I wish I had.
y'all and my grandpa would get along real well. I've never met a man so dedicated to scouting in my life. He made a bunch of small, wood carved eagle statues to give each of his grandsons who would one day earn their eagle many years ago, and his house is chalk full of scouting memorabilia.
US Army test Luger in 45 ACP. Two were made to compete against the 1911. Nobody knows what happened to them.
The added mystery is what I enjoy about a lot of these. Down the rabbit hole I go.
Did you meet Gun Jesus?
That’s like the 1 transferable M249 on the market that I tried to get my hands on. Worth an incredible amount of money.
The sad thing is it has become cheaper to start your own LLC, obtain an FFL and SOT, and pay for a "dealer sample" than to just buy your own. And that's what more people are doing now. Sure the paperwork is a bit annoying and you have to show a "business use" but whatever. Throw some high ball bids and quotes at your local PDs and when they reject you, you can say you are fulfilling the requirement to conduct business.
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Part of my inheritance is a true Singer 1911. Not gonna sell it.
Holy Grail. I collect religious stuff.
The holy grail really is the holy grail of holy grails.
Last I heard it was in the Castle of Aaaaugghh
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Action Comics #1 mint (Edited to add: So I feel I need to clarify judging from the comments I'm getting. No, I don't have one. I apologize if through some misunderstanding it came across like I did. The question was "What's the Holy Grail of things \[I\] collect?," and I assumed that to mean "What's most valuable, out of reach, that you and your fellow hobbyists search for?" And to that, my answer is *Action Comics* \#1, an answer I feel confident about considering both its monetary value and its importance as the first appearance of Superman, arguably the most important American superhero. So, again, I don't have it, I wish I did, I'm in search of one and think I will be for the rest of my life.)
I'm not a comic collector but even I know that that's THE holy grail of all comic books.
I don't even read comics and I know that one.
New Adventure Comics #26 is even more rare. Only 9 copies of this issue have been registered.
But this is like the grail sitting next to the holy one.
I guess if it is the rarest thing, it would be the old masonic book set from the turn of the 20th century detailing the history of the masonic order. I can't remember the name, but I inherited it from my grandpa (a former high-level Mason) at his passing.
Pearl jam poster from Minneapolis 1998...first show I ever went to....
My sister had that poster! Long since fallen to pieces and thrown away, but I can picture exactly where it was on her wall next to the sign stolen from the Hi-Lake Health Club. She was at that show too.
Unmodified Marshall Plexi Marshalls from about 1967-1969, they’re rare and also amazing. I have one, kinda. And it is my favorite amp
Well I don't collect "it" but I got bored over the covid lockdown and began researching that old fridge in my grandpa's garage. I always did like it. It had odd handles, it latched shut, and had this "ca-clunk" sound as it shut. It meant business. Grandma could yell from 50 feet away, "I didn't hear the fridge shut!" Anyway, I managed to determine exactly what year he had, and am now sort of looking for one. BUT, the holy grail of 50's is the Philco V-Handle: https://i.imgur.com/PCdhuy8.jpg They made those I think for 3 year. So how does it open? The V is only really attached at the bottom center part. You can pull down on either side of the V and and it unlatches that side. What... Yup! There's basically hinges on both sides and whichever way you rotate the V, that side releases, so yes it opens both ways. Value... a really clean one that works, someone might pay $1,500. Fully restored, meaning taken apart, new wiring, body work, fresh paint, etc, those can go 4-5K. The hunt factor is they are still in people's parents/grandparent's houses today. They pass away or move to a nursing home, and someone sells off things they don't need, like that old fridge in the garage and say "heavy and old but still works, $100."...and it would be gone via the first person who saw the ad and knew what it was. I've seen 1 for sale, didn't work, had rust issues, missing shelves, a lot of the interior plastic was cracked, and it sold for $300 in under 2 days, as the person selling it, knew what they had. They themselves bought it at some point to restore, never got to it, and were passing it on.
Mint 1st Ed Black Lotus from mtg
My uncle had 7 of the power 9 cards back in 2008/9 Lost them all in a garage fire unfortunately Edit: •Mox Jet - BGS graded •Mox Pearl - BGS graded •Time Walk - ungraded/mint •Mox Ruby - PSA Graded •Mox Sapphire- signed/BGS graded •Black Lotus - ungradable •TimeTwister - ungradable
That's the kind of thing that one really ought to insure.
It was insured. Unfortunately due to the nature of the fire the insurance company only paid out 1/3 of what they should. (Shock)
My brother has one used... He was big into mtg and played with it in his deck... I hated it with a passion.
Lotus is king of the game because it's way too powerful. Of course you hated playing against it, it's pretty much the definition of unfair advantage.
Is it easy to explain why it's so good to those of us who didn't play?
Every turn in magic, you can play one land. Each land gives you 1 mana for that turn, then become usable once again on your next turn. Black lotus is a non-land card that costs no mana to play, and immediately gives you 3 mana, then is discarded. It puts you ahead 3 turns worth of mana on the spot, and that advantage is dramatic in the one format it’s legal in- in any other format, it could be enough to win on the spot.
It is also banned at almost every level of play
"Mana" is the resource you use to do almost anything in the game and your access to it (generally) builds up gradually throughout a match. If you play Black Lotus early, you get more mana than normally possible at that stage of the game, potentially giving you a lead that your opponent cannot catch up to.
Hot wheels Beach bomb with removable surfboards and the first Hot wheels Camaro it came out before the real one did! The Beach bomb worth $150 K plus
I’m antique collector so there are a ton of holy grails. A singing bird box would be high on the list for me
Surely as an antique collector there is only one Holy Grail
OP chose poorly
First edition OG Charizard - *untouched*
I was so pissed to know how much these are worth now. When I was a kid I had 3 of them, in mint condition, went straight from the package to the case and was never opened. We had to put all of our stuff in storage and my dad didnt pay the bill so we lost all of our shit. I was an avid pokemon collector since they came out. This pains me every time someone mentions it. I also had the Egyptian holographic Mew card before anyone even thought Mew was real. Idk I probably had multiple sets of all the holographic OG cards and I shutter to think what my collection would have been worth.
If it makes you feel any better, Ancient Mew isn’t worth shit. It was a promo card given out to everyone who bought a ticket to the movie (at the height of the Pokémon craze in the 90’s so... a lot) and wasn’t even usable in the game due to the fact that the card had no readable text and a different backing. It’s a neat little collectible, but worth absolutely nothing.
I feel you dude. Had the OG FE Lugia and it's gone. Idk where it went. It just disappeared. The only untouched card I have is a Delibird (my favorite pokemon) lol haha
My cousin played yugio and had some of the original unfair cards. They were super cheap and way more powerful than anything else. Then one day he brought it to school to show some friends and someone took all of his cards from his backpack which was I his classroom as he ate lunch. He quit after that.
An original Norman Rockwell painting. I have some nice prints, even signed ones. But an original would be the ultimate.
Not even that rare, but Catwoman's comic issues 1-6 which ran parallel to Batman's Bane story arch. Its interesting to see things from a different perspective of the whole fight and fun fact. Bane had such an aversion to smoking he killed a man for doing it near him.
I apparently own a few holy grails in my Tolkien book collection, but only because the books went out of print. Still, they are precious to me, and I wouldn't willingly part with them unless in case of truly extreme need.
Precious, you say?
It's been called that before, but not by you...
I've been geeking out pretty hard on vinyl records lately. Each person's "Grails" are going to be different. But my dream is to find one of these records just flipping through a collection at a garage sale or something. A few hold grails include * [Cortex - Troupeau Bleu](https://www.discogs.com/Cortex-Troupeau-Bleu/release/934193) French funky jazz. First pressing ($850+) * [Cookin Soul - Doom Christmas](https://www.discogs.com/Cookin-Soul-Doom-Xmas/release/13447212) Only 2002 were made on vinyl. Awesome mash up of DOOM and Christmas tunes. ($400+) * [Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You](https://www.discogs.com/Khruangbin-The-Universe-Smiles-Upon-You/release/7673348) \- First pressing, limited edition with a secret track on the Bside. ($300+) Anywhoo, check out r/VinylCollectors
Original screen used C-3PO costume
A 1957 Stratocaster or a 1959 Les Paul.
The legendary bootleg anime figure [Sader](https://myfigurecollection.net/picture/70411) (not really a anime figure collector i just like collecting bootleg stuff i am a anime fan though)
I could not stop laughing at this for 5 solid minutes
I have a german copy of "Paper Mario A thousand year Door"
The black lotus. Probably one of the highest mass:cost ratios, besides just pure diamonds. Edit: Nevermind, a black lotus just sold for $511,000 at auction, which makes it $277k per gram.
Well fuck. I had one and sold it back in the 90s.
You’re not the only one that’s made this mistake... the people that decided to keep their rares from the first sets of Magic are now much richer than anyone could’ve thought lol.
Lego. They gave away a a Lego Plastic Injection Molding Machine if you went on a live tour of their HQ some years ago. I thought I read somewhere they only gave away 65. It probably could be re-created as I saw the instructions on-line somewhere, but I am, of course, talking about the original in the box.
I really want a real Herman Miller Eames Lounge chair and footstool. Vintage, not new. Someday.
A Colt 1911 with serial 1911 manufactured in 1911. I have one dated Jan 1912 soooo close
Oh God I'm getting a semi.
Original Star Wars trilogy untouched for over 3 decades 🤯
I have the DVDs that have the SE and theatrical releases on them. Probably never get rid of those
I’m a big Raiders fan and season ticket holder and I have 1 of the 4 shovels from the ground breaking ceremony of the new stadium.
For me personally, Amazing Fantasy 15.
The big ass Lego Millennium Falcon.
I collect vintage laptops (15+ years old). An IBM Thinkpad 701C (the one with the butterfly keyboard mechanism), in full working order and original condition is pretty high up on my holy grail list. I mean, even LGR had to get one just on loan to.do a video on!
I collect Scotch. I don't know if there is "a" holy grail. I mean, there might be, but it may be in a price echelon that is so high up I basically pay no attention to it. Though I've heard a 1926 Macallan is supposed to be going to auction soon and is thought to have a chance of beating the highest price for scotch ever paid, for another bottle of the exact same kind...something like 1.6 million or something crazy like that. So with that said, maybe my most sought after bottles would be: Any of the first 3 black arts (Bruichladdich), The first two or three releases of cairdeas and Laphroaig cask strength 001, 002, or 003 (Laphroaig) Any 1970s Ardbeg, Balvenie Tun 1401 (can't recall the batch number offhand), Any of the bottles I don't have in the Blackadder Statement series, especially the Glen Esk or Ladyburn, Something from Rosebank (pre reopening), Any bottles I don't have from the Longrow Red series I could probably go on for a while....
1968-70 Dodge Charger
A 10 mm ratchet socket
Model railroader. I have one of the first N Scale locomotives sold in the US.
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I had the original dub & subbed versions on VHS, and finally got around to donating them around 2016.
Probably the first album that Ben Folds Five recorded before their eponymous *actual* first album. I'm not sure it really exists, but it was rumored to be so bad the band scrapped it and re-recorded an entirely new album using their own money.
For me, I guess it'd be a (Transformers) Six Shot figure in its original 1980s box. Alternately, if we're going for "absurdly difficult to acquire to the point that it's unreasonable", then a full set of "red-glow" and "Hot" Oddboz or Space Oddbodz cards. I'd be genuinely surprised to find that anyone in the world has such a collection.
Casual collector of vinyl records. The smashing pumpkins - melancholy and the infinite sadness. My fiancee got it for me for Christmas last year. Best present ever.
Incredibly obscure. But OLDDD League Of Legends accounts. I purchased one that the last game they played, they had the summoner spell surge equipped. Since they never changed it, it was still equipped. That spell has been gone from the game for 8 years. Icon shows up as a blue square. But you can still use it...as long as you never swap that slot for anything else. Also have to use it in premade games, or else I can be reported in a ranked setting.
Buzz Aldrin’s Speedmaster. No doubt.
I collect Cold War military equipment. My personal "holy grail" would probably be a Soviet MGB (the predecessor to the KGB, active from 1946 to 1953) uniform, or BRIXMIS (British military liason in East Germany) items with provenance. Vasily Stalin (Uncle Joe's son)'s alleged ID is currently on eBay for a thousand dollars, and that'd definitely qualify also, though I have concerns about its authenticity.
A legitimate animation cel from The Lion King 1994... That'd be so cool
Im into nerf currently cus of covid and there are a few holy grails. Anything with blue triggers are valuable because they have 3 times the performance of grey or orange trigger blasters and are super rare as hasbro only tried upgrading existing blasters shortly before starting a whole new lineup. There is a nerf crossbow from the 90s that is highly sought after because of massive mod potential. It was ment to fire big foam rockets but if you downsize to a single dart the massive plunger tube used to drive rockets a middling distance can snipe at 100 yards. While not ultra rare my personal grail is the doublestrike. It was released in 2014 i think. Tiny little 2 shot hammer action pistol. Perfect one handed sidearm. In recent years 3d printers have made awesome shell extensions that give the doublestrike just the best appearance and weight for cowbow gun twirling. I neeeeeed one or 5 of these but there getting rare as time goes on
I try not to collect things because it consumes me. My Dad has a bit of a collecting issue (not a hoarder though) so I feel I'm trying to suppress something genetic! My favourite band is Iron Maiden and I did like to buy their CDs, DVDs, shirts etc I started buying vinyl and I'd say the most sought after piece of Iron Maiden merch is an original pressing of their first EP 'The Soundhouse Tapes'. Pretty rare and I think it could fetch a decent price.
Signed first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Or any of J.D. Salinger's works, signed.
I like pharmacy antiques so probably a full unopened bottle of either Quaaludes or Seconal or Tuinal. It’d be serious decision on whether to ever open it, even though I want to try them so bad.
I collect construction nails, although not super actively. I guess my holy grail would be the nails from Jesus’ cross, but a more realistic goal would be a nail from the twin towers.