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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3581947, member: 96864&quot;]I believe part of that has to do with the internet linking supply with demand. In some regions certain antiques were scarce and in high-demand, whereas in others they were plentiful and low-priced. I went to gobs of sales/auctions with my father starting in 3rd grade and started selling my own antique scores on eBay when I was 11. Back in the good &#039;ole days when you could buy guns, drugs, live hand grenades and prostitutes off eBay, LOL. I can clearly look back and chart the fluctuation in market values, supply, and demand for various classes of items and while many have lost value as everyone who was hunting managed to find what they wanted on eBay, or the passing of generations caused things like WW1 relics or Shirley Temple memorabilia to plummet in value, other classes of items have become more valuable thanks to access to worldwide supplies information and likeminded collectors (various vintage clothes/shoes come to mind).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I honestly believe this is an orchestrated conspiracy to deracinate individuals in the Western world, being perpetrated by Marxists and global corporatist interests (strange bedfellows) to divorce peoples from their history and thus obscure vision of their future trajectories as a people, and instead atomize them and turn them into good consumer cattle or cogs in an engineered socioeconomic class-conflict.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Orwell aptly stated: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Stamp collecting was largely a heavily shilled and hyped speculative bubble like Tulipomania or the Beanie Baby craze, thanks in no small part to the shameless self-promotion of folk like John Walter Scott. A genuine and passionate collector base did and will continue to exist, just as some people still cling to their massive collections of plastic pellet-stuffed toy animals, but in my opinion most of the collecting activity wasn&#039;t rooted in deep and sincere personal interest and instead was more of a multigenerational fad built on hype and visions of future profit.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yep, most people don&#039;t seem to even begin thinking about engaging in acquisitive hobbies and collection-building until they&#039;ve absorbed enough knowledge about themselves and the world to know what they even like to begin with and also have the financial security to pursue it. I started collecting coins, fossils, antiques and old books when I was 5 but many people aren&#039;t autistic goobers with supportive parents and don&#039;t get started until a bit later. </p><p><br /></p><p>The collecting of ancient coins or antiquities isn&#039;t going anywhere, and as source countries improve enforcement of current export laws or implement new ones the freshly metal-detected supplies will likely start drying up which oughta ensure some degree of value stability or growth in your ancient investments.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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