Mike Carruthers:
Around the holidays we often think of the toys of our childhood.
If we’d only kept them, like… Terry
Kovel:
Mr. Potato Head, an early Mr. Potato Head with a pipe, would
be worth in the hundreds of dollars.
Terry Kovel
co-author of Kovel’s
Antiques & Collectibles Price List…
The Easy
Bake Oven became so popular they’re making it again. An original
one would be about a hundred to two hundred dollars.
An early
Monopoly game - an early Monopoly game can bring hundreds and
hundreds of dollars, a really early one of the ones from the
30’s. When you get a little bit later they’re in the hundreds
of dollars.
Most
board games are worth, if they have good graphics on the boards,
are worth anywhere from fifty dollars up, assuming they’re more
than twenty-five years old.
Because
Etch A Sketch’s were very fragile and often broke, a working
old Etch A Sketch can bring in lots of money. And, as you might
imagine, old Barbie’s are very collectible.
An original
Barbie, mint, in the box - now most of us don’t keep our dolls
mint in the box. We play with them. But, mint in the box, in
other words never opened, the first Barbie is worth five thousand
dollars, which is really astounding, but they do sell for that
all the time. A good condition - not perfect - but an excellent
condition, first Barbie could bring several thousand dollars.
I’m just stunned when I see her going for that kind of money
because that was not true ten years ago.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I’m Mike Carruthers, and that’s Something You Should Know.
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