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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5365085, member: 19463&quot;]My wife collected bells and still has them but rarely gets more as the hobby is dying with the generation who collected them.&nbsp; Fifty years ago she was the youngest member of the local bell collector group but that club folded as fewer and fewer members could travel to meetings.&nbsp; Bell collectors paid good money for bells but the prices were rarely mentioned at meetings and played a very small part in the hobby.&nbsp; Coin collectors seem obcessed with the question and consider the profit potential the main reason for participating in the hobby.&nbsp; In bells, an old one with a groove inside where the clapper struck for decades was a bonus and a pristine piece two hundred years old was almost defective.&nbsp; Even ancient coin collectors tend to look down on pieces that participated in the economy that made them and preference is shown to a coin that spent 2000 years in a &#039;bank bag&#039; and hermetically sealed vault.&nbsp; It is just a different way of looking at collecting.&nbsp; My wife&#039;s bell collection with be worth about a tenth of what she paid over the years and not that much if we can&#039;t find someone who cares. Non collectors seem to prefer a bell labeled &#039;Souvenir of Disneyland&#039; to one with the mark of a nineteenth century blacksmith in North Wagga Wagga.&nbsp; Come to think of it, it is easier to sell a 2020 NCLT round than it is most ancients.&nbsp; Maybe the hobbies are not so different after all.&nbsp; Coins are just dying more slowly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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