SOMPORTEX trading cards

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• Voituer Posts: 483MI6 Agent

  December 2011

  I guess its the grading - people now collect cards sealed like this and graded as it creates a whole new market.
  
  in the old days we collected and if you had something and I did not I might be jealous. If I bought one of that something we might be equal. Now it is a competition for some collectors not only to have something, not only maybe to have a better condition something but now it has to be certified better!
  
  funny thing is years ago I had boxes of these cards and opened packets up to make mint sets, I do not regret a moment!

  www.jamesbondtoys.co.uk
• themanfrombrussels BrusselsPosts: 187MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Been collecting sixties soul records since 1979 and tv related toys/merchandise since 1989, i have stripped down the toy and memorabilia collection to the sixties tv/film spy period from the Dr No era till OHMSS . My fave part of my collection is the labelled clothes, accessoires, jewellery, toileteries and consumables (food and drink related) .
  Indeed new markets have been created along the road (same goes within the record collecting world) .
  I've never seen it as a competition as i have been collecting with ups and downs whenever my wallet permitted to buy something .

  http://guysgunsgirlscarsanddanger.jimdo.com/
• Voituer Posts: 483MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  sometimes its a very difficult world being a collector. Probably the hardest thing, certainly for me, is to limit to only certain items, or certain condition or maybe a certain genre, film etc. etc.
  
  When collecting 007 memorabilia it is sometimes like a giant unseen checklist. Once an item is bought it can be mentally ticked off and then the mind goes to the next purchase.
  
  In the art world items are generally unique. Apart from props and certain other items most of the stuff we buy was mass produced and can be common where it would be prudent to only buy the finest condition. In the case of items that are rarer either through age, their ephemeral nature or other factors then sometimes a purchase might be made of a lower quailty item due to either price restraints or because it might never come up for sale again.
  
  I have a friction little nelly toy with Connery as pilot. Made in the 1960s it is damaged and missing its rotors but I bought it as I had never seen one and I have never seen one since. I guess it was about 1998 when I bought that!
  
  Some years ago there was a move into investment with toys and cards and the grading established a fixed valuing point due to the item being encapsulated.
  
  Who can say whether buyers of these have as much fun as I have had so far, each to his own I guess

  www.jamesbondtoys.co.uk
• themanfrombrussels BrusselsPosts: 187MI6 Agent

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Voituer wrote:

  sometimes its a very difficult world being a collector. Probably the hardest thing, certainly for me, is to limit to only certain items, or certain condition or maybe a certain genre, film etc. etc.

  
  good resolutions are quickly forgotten, one day i restrict myself to certain items and next day it's allready forgotten . Still read your buying tips page from time to time when i feel i get carried away, it usually puts me in the right direction for a couple of days before i get distracted and start to have the collecting fever and see that must have item that is not in the categories i have restricted myself ) ) ) ) ) )
  

  Voituer wrote:

  When collecting 007 memorabilia it is sometimes like a giant unseen checklist. Once an item is bought it can be mentally ticked off and then the mind goes to the next purchase.

  
  OMG that bug made it to Belgium as well )
  

  Voituer wrote:

  In the art world items are generally unique. Apart from props and certain other items most of the stuff we buy was mass produced and can be common where it would be prudent to only buy the finest condition. In the case of items that are rarer either through age, their ephemeral nature or other factors then sometimes a purchase might be made of a lower quailty item due to either price restraints or because it might never come up for sale again.
  
  I have a friction little nelly toy with Connery as pilot. Made in the 1960s it is damaged and missing its rotors but I bought it as I had never seen one and I have never seen one since. I guess it was about 1998 when I bought that!
  
  Some years ago there was a move into investment with toys and cards and the grading established a fixed valuing point due to the item being encapsulated.
  
  Who can say whether buyers of these have as much fun as I have had so far, each to his own I guess

  
  Would love to see that Little Nellie (Japanese ???)
  
  Collecting is indeed fun, i have a partner and a little boy who love to go to car boot sales and flea markets with me . The little one is 9 and it is really fun to go out shopping with him because every 007 item he spots (even unlicensed look a likes) he runs like a madmen to me to show them . A well trained little boy . I avoid to take them to collectors/toys/movie fairs as they usually get bored after a couple of hours
  I only regret the days when there were still old toy shops full of goodies hidden in the back , cellar or attic and was on the road everyday, i nearly came back daily with goodies .
  I'm still out every week to find some stuff and i have still loads of fun , but finding what i want personally has become harder , except a few lucky finds i have to resign to buy from the net as well .
  On holiday i always manage to pick up something as well

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