What will be the worth?

IMO, They will not be worth anything significant monitarily iin your liftime.

 

What does "plastified" mean?

 

Plasticoated so they don't age.

Magazine and newspaper is so thin today - cut with acids and such - that it turns yellow pretty quick, 2-5 years.

I agree - it won't be worth much for a few hundred years, if at all, because today everyone is of the same mindset - 'save everything because it will be worth something some day'. An offshoot of EBay.

 

I have a Dallas newspaper from when Oswald was assisinated and when the US landed on the moon. Anyone think it's worth anything?

 

I collected comic books for about 20 years and still have around 10,000 of them. (Whole separate insurance policy on them too.) If it is encased so it can not be taken out of the case it will be worthless. Shrink wrapping exposes the paper and ink to high heat, that will make it age extremely quickly and that will doom it too. If it is in a plastic sandwich, like laminated cards, it will be worthless.

Best bet, and what I do for Spider Man #1, Amazing Stories #1, ect., is in a plastic bag, laying flat, in a box filled with argon and kept out of the light.

 

That made me chuckle.

 

Me too, but I just realised we dont have those comic books that he does which are worth serious $$$$.

Is the oxidation rate really that fast that the argon is necessary?

 

We?

 

I collect hockey cards..thats my hobby. Gets freaking expensive too..I sort of stopped though.

 

I got the idea when I was at Harvard. At the library they kept the best stuff, Shakespeare’s first folio, original copy of Newton's works, ect. They were called "nolenthropy boxes" or something like that.

I was told that in them the work would last forever as long as it was kept out of the light. I have a few extremely rare books and building the box was actually pretty easy.

And yes, it is worth it when you think of how much some of the books are worth.

 

dude! keep hold of them! in 20 years your kids might be able to swap them for a happy meal!!!!11one!!!!!!111

 

seriously, how much are these books worth though? i was a bibliophile for a long time (couldn't support the habit ) and would rather spend $100 on a 1940's reprint of Aliester Crowley than $7.99 for EXACTLY the same content in a flimsy paperback. i have to agree that i believe i get a lot more out of a nice hardbook with nothing spared on production, you get a lot more out of them... i spent over $200 for an original [translated] The Neverending Story for the (ex)girfriend, even though she already had an old paperback copy, and she LOVED reading that (had no idea what it cost to get it )... has read it like 5 times in the last couple years that i know of.

other than that... why?

 

I have a really nice collection of Jesus fans like we used to use in church when I was a kid.

No argon, though. Piled on top of the highboy with the Raggedy Ann.

 

Argon? wasn't he the limo driver from Die Hard?