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sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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Rsoxguy! Use cards not worth anything that are worn and cover something with them! That would be awesome sauce! Or make good copies and use that to cover a wooden chest to store more cards. Maybe a wooden chair for a conversational piece!


Richard! You made me think of the scene in the new Tron when Sam goes to his dad's arcade and flips everything on. The music starts up...classic Journey...and all us 80s kids are like singing along silently as we're taken back to when the old arcade *was* the place to be! Love that visual!
 
sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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rsoxguy said:
Heresy! :lol:
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I know nothing about baseball cards other than some are very valuable (like any collectible). I'm assuming there are some not worth much of anything. LOL! Like the 80s cabbage dolls that came in boxes, generally those aren't a big deal. Even never removed from the box, not a big deal. There were so many. Some combinations from particular factories have value but mostly not. Can't tell ya how often you hear people say, "Oh I have an original from when they were first made and I'd love to sell it!", only to find out it was a mass-market baby. I don't collect those. They all look alike. They were produced based on the hand-made originals that were sculpted by Xavier as artwork and sold as folk art, not toys, starting around 1977. Biiig difference!
 
rsoxguy

rsoxguy

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sweetpee_1993 said:
I know nothing about baseball cards other than some are very valuable (like any collectible). I'm assuming there are some not worth much of anything. LOL! Like the 80s cabbage dolls that came in boxes, generally those aren't a big deal. Even never removed from the box, not a big deal. There were so many. Some combinations from particular factories have value but mostly not. Can't tell ya how often you hear people say, "Oh I have an original from when they were first made and I'd love to sell it!", only to find out it was a mass-market baby. I don't collect those. They all look alike. They were produced based on the hand-made originals that were sculpted by Xavier as artwork and sold as folk art, not toys, starting around 1977. Biiig difference!
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I have been collecting baseball cards since 1990. I have well over 10,000 cards, categorized and booked or sleeved. Some of my cards are worth a few hundred dollars each, and some aren't worth the cardboard on which they are printed. Over the years, I have sold an additional 6000 cards on ebay. For me, it's not the value. I consider baseball to be such a great game of tradition and strategy. I look for every nuance of the game when I watch one on TV, and at a stadium. Consequently, many of my cards are "worthless junk", but not to me. Sad, I know, but we all have our hobbies, which is precisely what this thread is about.
 
sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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rsoxguy said:
I have been collecting baseball cards since 1990. I have well over 10,000 cards, categorized and booked or sleeved. Some of my cards are worth a few hundred dollars each, and some aren't worth the cardboard on which they are printed. Over the years, I have sold an additional 6000 cards on ebay. For me, it's not the value. I consider baseball to be such a great game of tradition and strategy. I look for every nuance of the game when I watch one on TV, and at a stadium. Consequently, many of my cards are "worthless junk", but not to me. Sad, I know, but we all have our hobbies, which is precisely what this thread is about.
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Exactly. One of my most cherished pieces in my collection is that little toy cabbage I got from Santa when I was 9. To anyone else she's worth virtually nothing. To me, she's everything. In fact, when I had to work thru Hurricane Katrina at the parish Emergency Operations Center and was packing up my gear to take with me it hit me out of the blue that I didn't want to be alone there during that time just in case. My family evacuated. I racked in bunks with coworkers and other personnel. So of all the treasures I had, that little old beat-down doll went with me. It made all the difference. I kept her at my work station while working and held onto her when sleeping on the 12-hr rotations. She's special. It can't be explained.

My dad is a huge baseball guy. Huge. He studies it like you described. He's a Brave's man, tho. Oh the memories at Fulton County Stadium watching Bruce Horner and Dale Murphy. At the time I was much happier to keep running for more cotton candy and pizza. My brother isn't quite the historian about the team as my dad is but he's a big fan. My brother used to play baseball, very talented. Had he had a different avenue thru life maybe it would've done something for him. He loves the game, tho. And I understand the strategy and nuance parts. I know enough about the game to "get" the significance of that stuff.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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Master Yoda said:
Please tell me that this basement has black lights and fluorescent airbrushed murals on the wall.:lol:
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No my basement is unfinished.. but there are many in the hobby that have rebuilt the full 80s arcade :) The blacklight reactive carpet is pretty popular too :)

Unfortunately there is one major video collection near me that fell to the divorce victim hard. Whole seperate building, basically every classic video game.. whole arcade setup. Had to be liquidated :(

sweetpee_1993 said:
Oh! Ya know, Flynn, an old discard pinball machine stripped of it's inner-workings but still outfitted with lights on the table top, leveled off, short legs added, no back display, then given a large plate-glass top extending beyond the edges would make a really awesome table. You could do a dining room table, a desk, a coffee table, etc. That would be so neat!
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Popular project :)

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Pinball-Coffee-Table/

I've made a few animated backlit picture frames from the translites (the art at in the head of the game)

Here is one of them in my office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_RzLhxQSI

Here is one line of the games
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sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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Flynn, I figured it would be a popular thing to do. It's so obvious. I love the table. I love repurposed things, stuff made out of something not originally intended for what it was made into. Love the lighted, animated frame thing, too. Very neat! Cool games! I wish my boys had more of an appreciation for pinball. :brick:

Yeah, on Anderson Cooper the question was asked what would happen to the collection if something happened to Joe & Pat. Their daughter obviously didn't want to keep it. I've been around when some of the older collectors that I didn't really know passed so I kinda saw what happened with their collections. That's how I sorta approach the topic with my family. If something were to happen to me they could keep whatever they wanted to or liquidate. Tracey especially knows who to contact of my friends who would come help him take care of everything. It's also a thought for collectors (of anything, I suppose) to keep things organized and documented so it's easier for someone with the right knowledge to readily assess what's there. I keep everything together, not scattered. All paperwork with registration info is kept all in a single place organized by age. Important info is written and kept with all the paperwork. I imagine on a larger scale, as with the Prosey's collection, the documenting and cataloging of info is extensive and more detailed. Then you get into protecting yourself with special riders on insurance and documentation to prove loss if that should ever occur. With these collectible soft-sculpture dolls people don't readily understand their value because it's not that common. A friend of mine once had her house burglarized. The perps moved some of her Kids out of the way to take things they thought were of-value. The irony is that the dolls that were lining shelves on every wall of a spare room were worth more than the total of the jewelry and other valuables taken. :lol:
 

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