by joshh_911 » Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:30 am
Shambler wrote:"you the very young people"? Can't say I'm some 16-year-old celeb mad teen, wanting to keep anything that any star touches. But an amount of sentimental or monetary value can be placed on certain objects.
My example would be a coke bottle which David Beckham drank on while in Australia. It was put up for auction, and fetched bids of over £1 500.
I think the fun of meeting the stars does lose some appeal with modern dealers cropping up, masses of extra people waiting so it's a lot harder nowadays to how it used to be when meeting celebrities had an element of fun. I'll agree that some items are worth keeping, but the coke bottle just seems mad. Fair enough a football shirt, captain's armband, shorts, boots etc... Or for bands, guitar picks, drum-sticks etc. But something like a bottle of beer at the back of a venue, I'd just leave on the ground. Because some items are unique such as the items of kit, but others like a bottle... it'd be hard to prove to anyone that it had actually been used.
I mentioned the 'younger people' because I'd associate young girl fans crowding round the stage door as ones who would cherish an item like that, can't see it ever appealing to older males...
The majority of IP collectors I know aren't "new on the scene" so picking up a bottle of coke, or keeping a pen because 'David Beckham used it' just seems a bit daft. Beckham's a good (at least was when in the UK at games) signer, so it's really the autograph I'd be waiting for, the 'special pen' frame of mind is never something I'd even consider...
This post is a bit disrespectful. You're saying that you have to be young and naive to find sentimental value in your "graphing" pen. I don't specifically keep my pens but I'm not going to slate people who do. I probably still have pens that celebrities have touched but I can't remember which ones they are. However, if David Caruso were to ever use my pen, I would keep it in a glass case, never to be touched by human hands again
I'm not slating them, it just doesn't seem the type of thing a 'regular' collector would do... Imagine if David Caruso appeared and you didn't have a Sharpie... You asked me, and I was like "No!! David used it, you can't borrow!" -you'd be pretty annoyed. I just don't see the whole idea behind it lol.
[quote="Shambler"]"you the very young people"? Can't say I'm some 16-year-old celeb mad teen, wanting to keep anything that any star touches. But an amount of sentimental or monetary value can be placed on certain objects.
My example would be a coke bottle which David Beckham drank on while in Australia. It was put up for auction, and fetched bids of over £1 500.[/quote]
I think the fun of meeting the stars does lose some appeal with modern dealers cropping up, masses of extra people waiting so it's a lot harder nowadays to how it used to be when meeting celebrities had an element of fun. I'll agree that some items are worth keeping, but the coke bottle just seems mad. Fair enough a football shirt, captain's armband, shorts, boots etc... Or for bands, guitar picks, drum-sticks etc. But something like a bottle of beer at the back of a venue, I'd just leave on the ground. Because some items are unique such as the items of kit, but others like a bottle... it'd be hard to prove to anyone that it had actually been used.
I mentioned the 'younger people' because I'd associate young girl fans crowding round the stage door as ones who would cherish an item like that, can't see it ever appealing to older males... :? The majority of IP collectors I know aren't "new on the scene" so picking up a bottle of coke, or keeping a pen because 'David Beckham used it' just seems a bit daft. Beckham's a good (at least was when in the UK at games) signer, so it's really the autograph I'd be waiting for, the 'special pen' frame of mind is never something I'd even consider...
[quote]This post is a bit disrespectful. You're saying that you have to be young and naive to find sentimental value in your "graphing" pen. I don't specifically keep my pens but I'm not going to slate people who do. I probably still have pens that celebrities have touched but I can't remember which ones they are. However, if David Caruso were to ever use my pen, I would keep it in a glass case, never to be touched by human hands again[/quote]
I'm not slating them, it just doesn't seem the type of thing a 'regular' collector would do... Imagine if David Caruso appeared and you didn't have a Sharpie... You asked me, and I was like "No!! David used it, you can't borrow!" -you'd be pretty annoyed. I just don't see the whole idea behind it lol.
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