James Bond Collecting Survey
bondaholic007
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Hello. I am doing a survey about James Bond Collecting, I will take in all results in about 20 days. Then post the average results to them all. You are not forced into answering, You dont need to answer all of them, But it would be nice if you would, Thanks
The questions are. (Just copy paste and reply.)
1. When did you first start collecting?
2. What is your best item ?
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
5. Where do you purchase your items?
6. Where do you display your items?
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
I will post this survey on MI6, AJB and Bondaholic.
The results would be intresting to look at.
Thanks
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The questions are. (Just copy paste and reply.)
1. When did you first start collecting?
2. What is your best item ?
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
5. Where do you purchase your items?
6. Where do you display your items?
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
I will post this survey on MI6, AJB and Bondaholic.
The results would be intresting to look at.
Thanks
Moderators, If you dont like it then please lock.
Comments
I love each of my items the same. They are all equally good and special to me.
Around £700 +, Depends on how much people are will to pay for it.
I am currently looking for a Jaws Icon figure, But I am also looking for other items.
I buy my items at lots of different places.
- Bootsale
- Wh Smiths
- Tesco
- eBay / Play.com
- Collecting Shows like Memorabillia
- Various other places
In my rooms on shelves, Walls and under my bed.
I hope I never do
The beginning of this year when the 007 spy cards advert came on.
2. What is your best item ?
Hard one.It will have to be my Connery Sideshow figure.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
About £400.
4. Is there any particular Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Jaws teeth.
5. Where do you purchase your items?
eBay
car boot ,toy fairs
supermarkets
Whsmith
6. Where do you display your items?
I display them on cupboards,TV, window sill,and wall.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
No i will never stop collecting bond is my life.
Age 17 - 17 years ago now
2. What is your best item ?
Maybe not the most valuable, but my favourite item at the moment is my Planet Ocean Omega.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
I would guess about £10,000
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Yes, Casino Royale medipac - soon to be remidied
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Ebay, prop makers and clothes stores
6. Where do you display your items?
Spare room - it's a Bond themed dressing room
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
Never - it's in the blood. I've bought and sold several collections, depending on what we (family) need at the time.
My collecting tastes have changed though. I used to collect everything - toys, posters, models etc, then just Thunderball stuff - my favourite film. Now it's clothes & accessories, books / mags and classy replicas.
Hope that helps
Duncan
Around the time of GoldenEye, so 1995
2. What is your best item ?
Swell bubblegum packaging box from 1965
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Somewhere in the region of £15,000
4. Is there any particular Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Anything rare and unusual
5. Where do you purchase your items?
eBay, bootsales, collectors fairs
6. Where do you display your items?
Most of my stuff is in boxes in my spare room. I've got too much to display properly!
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
At the moment no, but I' sure I will one day get bored or not have the money to spare. I enjoy the hunt for new things.
No real idea. Around 1990 at a guess.
2. What is your best item ?
Danbury Mint DB5 with all the gadgets.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Not sure. Not much I'd guess.
4. Is there any particular Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
1:18 scale Lotus which converts to the underwater Lotus, and a 1:18 scale DBS
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Wherever I can find them.
6. Where do you display your items?
At the moment, some are on a bookcase on the landing of the top floor. Eventually, one room will be a library, and my collection will be displayed on shelves in there. Film posters will probably be hung on the walls of the stairs.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
Unlikely. I'm a hoarder.
I was collecting model cars and some Bond items before the release of Goldeneye, But I would have to say after Goldeneye i started to focus solely on Bond merchandise and collectables. so 1995 I started collecting Bond.
2. What is your best item ?
My one off Only one of its kind in the world, GOLDEN GUN replica made by my Grandfather before he retired from a metal works facotry in Glasgow. It's made of Stainless steel and is Gold plated.... very unique ,, a complete one off..complete with a Gold Plated bullet with OO7 engraved on the tip, the JEWEL in my Collection... very special to me, as It was made as a Christmas Present and I received it on Christmas Present - about 6 years ago after bugging my Grandfather about The Man With The Golden Gun and the Film prop Gun.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Just giving a rough estimate about £15,000 give or take a few hundred pounds. last time i added it all up it was about £7,000 and I have added a lot of expensive items since.. some rare and valuable collectables...
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
I am never looking for anything, Bacause if there is ever something that I cannot get or buy I simply start making a replica... that goes for Props...... However I am looking for some vintage collectables to add to my collection. Old Corgi 60's and 70's Bond items, Gilbert figures, Multiple toys, etc etc
5. Where do you purchase your items?
A lot off eBay and what I can't buy I make , But I would say eBay is my biggest resource in Collecting.... the best thing on the Net and equal par to AJB007.CO.UK and The Quartermaster website
6. Where do you display your items?
I have a James Bond room with glass display cases and areas for displaying props and collectables. I like to keep it all neat and tidy but sometimes it does get a bit out of hand if there is some unfinished Props and replicas lying around. But I try my best to keep on top of all that and keep it looking like my own Bond museum ....
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
One statment that springs to Mind about me and all of us collectors, is something David Zaritsky - The Mantis said in the video tour of his collection . He said a collector never stops. Your collecting only stops wen you Die ... So I would have to say no I will never stop .. I sometimes say to myself and friends and family when thy ask and say.... whats left to get for the Bond collection now or how much more can you fit into that display ,,, And sometimes say its coming to and end but I know.. it will never end....
www.freewebs.com/scaramangasgoldengun
www.facebook.com/QuartermasterProps
1999.
2. What is your best item ?
Vladek Sheybal autograph.
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Marne Maitland
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
Not for a long time, no!
Several years ago.
2. What is your best item ?
There is no 'best' item. Each are different.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
$6-7K
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
No.
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Gunshops, Turnbull & Asser, Gieves & Hawkes, Charles Tyrwhitt, E-Bay, jewelery shops specialty stores, etc.
6. Where do you display your items?
They are not displayed unless you are threatening me with imminent death or grave bodily harm.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
Not as long as the writers keep changing weapons and watches.
Collected comics 1990-98 , from then it's been a potpourri of various stuff , 007 in particular
2. What is your best item ?
Many items.....the DN Italy 4sh in particular{[]
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ? 60-70k....yeah I've spent waaaaay too much
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Not really.....I'm hooked on movie posters :x
5. Where do you purchase your items?
A certain web site
6. Where do you display your items?
Shelves....the 2 & 4sh posters are not gonna be cheap to frame
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
LOL....as if -{
Around the mid 90s.
2. What is your best item ?
I only really collect posters and love them all the same. Whilst not a collection piece my photo with Sean Connery is without question my fav Bond related thing I have.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
No more than £1000.00.
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Need to get the second teaser for QoS.
5. Where do you purchase your items?
E-bay and movie stores.
6. Where do you display your items?
On my walls.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
Doubt it.
around the age of 12, but only started seriously collecting when i started working
2. What is your best item ?
i like display items and product tie ins, but i would say the early connery posters i have are my favourite
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Conservatively i would estimate it around 2000 pounds
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
No not really, as long as it says 007 on it and its a fair price, ill buy it
5. Where do you purchase your items?
As bond items are hard to come by in south africa, i try ebay or charity shops
6. Where do you display your items?
Strangely enough i dont display my items, the are packed away, maybe for a time where i have enough space to display it
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
No, its an addiction i cant/wont get rid of
Average Results
(8 - 15) Young For Most People
N/A
£600+
To a real Bond fan it should be priceless
N/A
eBay / Supermarkets
In a room / boxes
No
NOTE: You can still submit, I can just update it is another 20 days or so again.
Quite facinating results really, Without eBay alot of us wouldnt have half as much as we do
That said, I'm sure he's quite happy with the pile of cash the size of Africa that he's sitting on
Duncan
That said, I'm sure he's quite happy with the pile of cash the size of Africa that he's sitting on
Duncan
1991
2. What is your best item ?
photo with roger moore aeroport of Paris.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
I dont know
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
a autocard of joe don baker
5. Where do you purchase your items?
ebay
6. Where do you display your items?
in this adress;
http://tradingscardsjamesbond.wifeo.com/index.php
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
in this moment, absolutly no.
About 2004
2. What is your best item ?
Dedicated photo from Sir Roger
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Circa £1000 I would guess
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
The new Golden Gun (not the stolen one BTW)
5. Where do you purchase your items?
eBay or Bondcollectibles
6. Where do you display your items?
in this adress;
Mostly in my downstairs loo (the Bond Room!)
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
I doubt it.
The good news is that the actual founder has been using his newfound wealth to fund causes like the environment, world hunger, and more. While the pile he received wasn't quite the size of Africa, he is at least applying it there!
I first started buying "spy toys" about age 7. I would guess that I understood that I was actively collecting around 15 or so.
2. What is your best item ?
I'm not sure how to interpret "best." Rarest, most valuable, most popular ... those I could probably respond to more easily! I often come back to the factory tooling for the Connery hand puppet as the one piece where so many factors converge.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
See PM.
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Just one?! The Sears Bond and Oddjob dolls and outfits (all so rare--other than Bond--that I wonder if they even exist), MR child's playsuit, Toyota 2000 by Clifford ... and that's just the top three!
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Originally, toy shows (fairs in the UK) and specialist dealers. Sadly, anymore, it's all eBay ...
6. Where do you display your items?
I keep a selection of "tourist" pieces in cases in my dining room, the rest in a special room devoted just to Bond.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
I think the nature of my collecting might evolve in response to the market, but I doubt I'll ever stop collecting.
Early 60s (45 years ago, aged about 10/11), when I acquired my dad's three Bond paperbacks, my original news cuttings and mags date from 1965 (I have since acquired a few older ones). My first "toys" were the Lone Star James Bond gun (Walther P38) and of course Corgi's 007 Aston Martin DB5.
2. What is your best item ?
Difficult to say, but I am rather fond of my original (although tatty) BSA Thunderball poster.
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
Again, difficult to say - about 15 years ago I had about a third of my collection on show in an exhibition, a conservative estimate for insurance purposes put that third at about £10,000
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
Anything that is cheap and that I haven't got.
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Toy shops, WH Smith, Ottakers/Waterstones, Memorabelia, eBay, boot sales etc.
6. Where do you display your items?
Books (and DVDs/videos/CDs) on Bookshelves in my lounge and hall way, a few models in glass cabinets, most of the rest is tucked away or boxed etc in either my bedroom or in the spare room - only the kitchen and bathroom are Bond free.
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting?
My collecting did slow down during the Moore era, much to my regret, but it never stopped and I doubt if I will ever stop, even when I was out of work I managed to buy something
1. When did you first start collecting?
About 10 Years ago
2. What is your best item ?
I have a few favorites... The Original Red Telephone Prop from M's Office must be the Best in my view
3. How much would you think your collection is worth ?
I Really have no Idea, Its got to be a few grands worth though
4. Is there any particual Bond item you are looking for at the moment?
An Original Production used Aston Martin
5. Where do you purchase your items?
Dealers, Ebay , Major Auction Houses.
6. Where do you display your items?
All over the House! thanks to my very Tolerant Wife!!
7. Do you think you will ever stop collecting? yeh..but No...but yeah but No.. and don't listen to Candice cos she's dirty!! (so to say.. probably not!!)