30+ Rare Things People Love To Collect

Published on 02/15/2024
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Action Comics No.1 Comic Book

Maker: Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster
Original Price: 10c*
Worth Today: $3.2 Million*

The first superhero comic book was Action Comics #1. It originally included multiple superheroes, most notably Superman, and is regarded as the birth of the superhero genre. It is also the most valuable comic of all time, thus it is absolutely worth digging through the dusty old comic box to find one of these guys. The cover, published in 1938, shows Superman lifting a green automobile while people escape the scene. The first edition was printed in 200,000 copies and sold out very quickly. It didn’t take long for them to understand that Superman was the reason the comic book was so successful; shortly, they were selling a million copies every month. Disney and Sony’s efforts have increased the popularity of comic books in recent years. Even though an issue of this particular comic cost only 10 cents at the time, a perfect copy can fetch up to $3.2 million. That is not a small change.

Action Comics No.1 Comic Book

Action Comics No.1 Comic Book

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1856 1-Cent Magenta Stamp from British Guiana Stamp

Maker: British Guiana
Original Price: 1c*
Worth Today: $9.5 Million*

Discovered in a cellar in 1873 by a Scottish schoolboy among his uncle’s stamp collection, it passed through multiple hands until reaching Arthur Hind in 1922, who supposedly outbid three kings for $36,000. Its value has subsequently risen significantly, prompting stamp collectors throughout the world to dust off their old stamps and have them assessed. The extremely rare 1c stamp from British Guiana (now Guyana), issued in 1856, is the only one known to survive today. Each of the four times it sold, it broke the record for the most money paid for a single stamp. The most recent sale was for a whopping $9.5 million to shoe designer Stuart Weizman. Stamp collecting may be tough for some of us to understand, yet it has long been one of the market’s most popular sectors. Stamp collectors are willing to pay exorbitant prices to acquire something unusual and distinctive.

1856 1 Cent Magenta Stamp From British Guiana Stamp

1856 1 Cent Magenta Stamp From British Guiana Stamp

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