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Hello

Just a quick question. (or 2)

How popular are collector’s items ? These would include Limited Editions, Signed, Collectors pieces and Rare Magic related items.

I collect Derren Brown Stuff and have just about everything of his signed. Its just something i enjoy doing.

Are there many others out there that collect and what sort of things ?

Signed copies of Absolute Magic and Pure Effect are slowly turning into small pensions!

Like most kinds of collecting, the market depends mainly on what a large number of people recognise and get excited about.

So items associated with famous names like Houdini, Paul Daniels, or Derren Brown will be sought after and expensive, because they'll attract the general public and collectors from other fields (e.g. theatre). The same would apply to things like well-designed posters that are attractive in their own right.

Other items might generate a lot of interest within the magical fraternity, but not among the general public. They'd be worth less overall because they're of interest to fewer people.

With any collecting, the best advice is to acquire what you love because you love it, not trying to second-guess what the future value might be. If you love something and it also becomes valuable, then that's a bonus.

(I collect, but not in the magic field.)

I spoke to someone the other day that had over 400 different designs of cards. I never knew that many had been printed. He told me that they were all unopened and he is giving them to his kids when he is older and hopes that the very rare ones will be worth quite a bit of money