Post by Shaggy on Oct 6, 2010 16:30:08 GMT -5
Sixties memorabilia are highly collectible. Perhaps its because the old Baby Boomers are buying up items from their youth as memories of better times washes over them.
I, Shaggy, have a particular love of buttons. Wearing buttons to express a silliness like "Peanut butter is better than pot!" was fun. It was something that we knew was contrary to our parents' ways. We also wore buttons to voice our opinion about war and peace, civil rights, and other political things. These buttons are called "cause" buttons. We proudly wore buttons from protest actions we attended, like "The Pentagon is rising" from the Oct. 21, 1967 march on Washington and the Pentagon.
Bumper-stickers, decals, smoking apparatus like brass pipes and rolling papers, "underground" newspapers and comics, patches, mod and hippie vintage clothing, jewelry, trip room items like black lights and strobe lights, posters, and just about anything from the Sixties Era are highly collectible.
Some of these items are bringing big bucks. I remember a rectangular button from the late Sixties that pictured a flag-draped coffin being carried by soldiers that read "Is your kid in this box?" It sold for, what was considered, a high price of $1.00. I have seen it sell for as high as $50.00 at auction now, while some buttons that sold for the normal 25 cents sell for more than that. I highly recommend the book "All For The Cause - Campaign Buttons for Social Change 1960s - 1990s" by William A. Sievert. It has lots of black & white and color photos of buttons with their history, along with a price guide.
A great reference book about Sixties collectibles is "Hippie Artifacts - Mind-Blowing Stuff to Collect" by Dr. Gary Moss. It is loaded with page after page of color photos and price guides to stuff you wouldn't believe!
If you ever run across a book titled "Treasures of the Aquarians - The Complete Exhibit Catalog of the Berkeley Dig" by Richard Davis and Jeff Stone, be advised that it is a work of humor. It does feature items from the Sixties, but they are presented as stuff uncovered in an archaeological dig in the future. The premise is that they have no idea about the items' original usage, so they guess at what they were. A fun book.
These collectibles are what you will need to reenact the Sixties. Many of the items can be constructed at home - like clothing and jewelry. Authentic items like patches and buttons bring your character to life. This discussion area is where members will exchange ideas and sources for materials.
I, Shaggy, have a particular love of buttons. Wearing buttons to express a silliness like "Peanut butter is better than pot!" was fun. It was something that we knew was contrary to our parents' ways. We also wore buttons to voice our opinion about war and peace, civil rights, and other political things. These buttons are called "cause" buttons. We proudly wore buttons from protest actions we attended, like "The Pentagon is rising" from the Oct. 21, 1967 march on Washington and the Pentagon.
Bumper-stickers, decals, smoking apparatus like brass pipes and rolling papers, "underground" newspapers and comics, patches, mod and hippie vintage clothing, jewelry, trip room items like black lights and strobe lights, posters, and just about anything from the Sixties Era are highly collectible.
Some of these items are bringing big bucks. I remember a rectangular button from the late Sixties that pictured a flag-draped coffin being carried by soldiers that read "Is your kid in this box?" It sold for, what was considered, a high price of $1.00. I have seen it sell for as high as $50.00 at auction now, while some buttons that sold for the normal 25 cents sell for more than that. I highly recommend the book "All For The Cause - Campaign Buttons for Social Change 1960s - 1990s" by William A. Sievert. It has lots of black & white and color photos of buttons with their history, along with a price guide.
A great reference book about Sixties collectibles is "Hippie Artifacts - Mind-Blowing Stuff to Collect" by Dr. Gary Moss. It is loaded with page after page of color photos and price guides to stuff you wouldn't believe!
If you ever run across a book titled "Treasures of the Aquarians - The Complete Exhibit Catalog of the Berkeley Dig" by Richard Davis and Jeff Stone, be advised that it is a work of humor. It does feature items from the Sixties, but they are presented as stuff uncovered in an archaeological dig in the future. The premise is that they have no idea about the items' original usage, so they guess at what they were. A fun book.
These collectibles are what you will need to reenact the Sixties. Many of the items can be constructed at home - like clothing and jewelry. Authentic items like patches and buttons bring your character to life. This discussion area is where members will exchange ideas and sources for materials.