Antique Toys
When shopping for antique toys, it can be extremely helpful to have a price guide in hand. Many unscrupulous sellers are hoping to gain profit due to a buyer’s lack of knowledge. Watching some of the antique shows can help educate you as a buyer.
For a few dollars, you can purchase an antique toys pricing guide and have a firm understanding of how to find a bargain. If you happen to have collected many of your childhood toys and are ready to sell them, there can be a great deal of money to be made. Do some research regarding antique toys and their prices and some items may make you a mint!
An extremely popular collection of antique toys includes a wooding rocking horse. Wooden rocking horses are widely available at online antique stores and often cost well over $1,000 if they are in good condition. Some wear is expected, but the rocking horse must work and contain the original pieces.
Surprisingly, antique toys sought after by collectors typically include marbles. One onionskin marble on EBay is currently priced at $500 and steadily climbing. While marbles may be at the bottom of your antique toys list, they can sell for huge amounts of money.
In the 1970s, many little boys craved an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle. These rare bikes with the matching Evel Knievel doll earn well over $400 now, and parents back then paid only dollars for them. If you have an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle in your old toy chest, pull it out and gain some money selling it to antique toys collectors.
Antique toys collectors are interested in even unusual items. One tube of Mattel’s Plastic Goop is entertaining bids of well over $100. Can you imagine paying $100 for a small tube of plastic mix? If you are holding any old goop, you will earn far more than you paid.
A set of two Whammo Frisbees in their original 1973 packaging are currently earning bids of $75. With more than three days left in the auction, these two Frisbees are going to make well over their original purchase price. Even Frisbees are sought after antique toys.
Antique Barbies usually make a great deal of money. These antique toys were usually played with avidly, but if you happen to have a doll that comes with the box or an antique carrying case, the Barbies can sell for hundreds.
Buying and selling antique toys can be a great way to make a few dollars but it also will afford you a great trip down memory lane, all the way back to your childhood.
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