Browsing: Vintage

The vintage baseball marketcontinues to prove its relevance in the current sports card landscape, with collectors willing to pay record prices for their sought-after grails. Representing a different era of the game and collectibles itself, vintage baseball has found a way to appeal to a wider audience, and it’s reflected in the sales that have…

Long before anyone walked on the Moon, toy makers had already been there. Tin robots marched off Tokyo assembly lines, ray guns sparked in Michigan, and plastic astronauts crewed bases that no space agency had yet drawn up.

The treasures of the older generation, such as ancient coins, commemorative banknotes, stamps, jade and other collectibles that were once called “hard currency” are now being sold at reduced prices, while the “hard currency” of young people including blind boxes, figurines, limited-edition cards and the like are being snapped up at extremely high premiums. Some…