Collectibles Crazes That Were A Waste of Money
A business news syndication website, Business Insider, has an interesting article on collectibles crazes that were a waste of money. On their list are things like:
Fortunately Scout patches are not on this list although I’ve previously written about being near a tipping point. I’ve long contended that Scouting memorabilia is a solid collectible because the items were made to be used as part of the program. The more our collectibles become like these, mass-produced, fad-based the less they will be collectibles. Read the above links for the epitaphs, and wasted money, on what were once “hot” collectibles. I was going to write “Lets hope this doesn’t happen to Scout patches.” Well it has happened but what this means, like the discussion in baseball cards above, there was a period where our patches were true collectibles and those will be the ones in the future most likely to hold value.
on January 1st, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Hopefully scouting memorabila never makes this list. However, It still can be a scary endeavor for many of us that have large sums of monies wrapped up in the hobby in vintage memoribilia. This is the perfect example for why I have shyed away from the modern computer generated and ridiculous cartoon style merchandise that are mass produced for profit by Councils and Lodges. I personally wont be a part of it. What most consumers of these items, as well as the councils and lodges putting out these items dont realize is… that, this mass bulk of stuff , ultimately hurts the legitamite vintage collectibles market. Hopefully we can take Roys article as a warning…
on January 3rd, 2013 at 5:33 pm
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on January 19th, 2013 at 7:43 am
I’ve written and talked about how I caught the “patch bug” the week that I got into the OA back in 1986. If you listened to my Scouting Hot Finds Radio show back on November 30th I had on my old friend Paul Gowder. In that show we talked about the patches there were being traded around Elk campsite that week. I will never forget one of those flaps. Somebody put into the mix a twill Osage 42 flap. Now the only thing we knew about twill flaps was from drooling after the blue and black twills of Santee 116 so this Osage flap was treated with reverence. Of course I later found out that not all twills are made alike and this Lodge 42 flap wasn’t pure gold. However, I’ll never forget the first OA flap from another lodge that really left an impression on me as a 14 year old just getting my feet wet in patch collecting. I spotted one on eBay today and thought I’d share this and ask does anybody else have a story of that first patch that really connected with them they would be willing to share?