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Collecting Animation Cels




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Animation cels, short for cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate. It's a clear plastic sheet that original drawings were made.
Collecting animation cels started when the full length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became so popular. Disney studio at the time began to recognize the value of the animators' works.

Today animation art is prized by collectors. Especially with the advent of computer generated graphics cels are no longer used for animation. That's why they are rare and collectible. Little Mermaid in 1989 was the last movie, that cels were used.

Hardcore collectors only collect what they call production art, original animation cels that were used in a movie or a popular series. For animation cels collectors, their collections reminded them of a fantastic moment in films or evoke particular memories from their childhood. Their passion runs deep, they must own a piece of a memorable movie.

The areas in animation cels collecting are varied.

1. Collecting animation cels from one single studio. e.g. Disney, Hanna-Barbera etc.

2. The characters pose whether they using the phone, standing up etc.

3. If the animation cels come with the original background or with matching sketch.

4. If you are only interested in collecting production art( original cels), reproduction art, limited editions or sericels.

Extremely rare and sought after animation cels like the top quality Earle background for Sleeping Beauty would fetch five figure top dollar.

I loved my daily afternoon cartoons when i was a kid....Moby Dick, Mightor, Road Runner, Wacky Races.

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Paperweights


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Paperweights are collected by millionaires, who pay enormous sums for selected French Baccarat, Clichy and St.Louis examples or you can rummage around many a bargain basement for some of the less expensive, but still attractive, chinese and advertising items.

The best known type of paperweights is the domed "Millefiore" variety that was first made by the glassworkers on the island of mMrano, near Venice using techniques adapted from Egyptian glassmakers.

The Murano paperweights originated early in the 19th century and were made until around 1850. Leading exponents of these early types include Bigaglia and Franchini.

The French became interested in the Millefiore paperweights and the three factories started producing superb paperweights that now fetch the highest prices, for a period of fifteen years.they were not at all Millefiore, the French produced dazzling flowers, fruit, mushroom and insects.

England produced good quality paperweights through Bacchus, Whitefriars and others, while at the same time the best ever American paperweights were being made by Mount Washington, New England glass, Gillinder and others .The American paperweights in particular or rather some of them are now the second most expensive after the French.

The history of paperweights does not end there .Green bottle weights were produced by Kilner of Wakefield, Nailsea until the end of the 2nd world war.

So the question remains what paperweights will make a good investment? many modern paperweights will soon rival the high quality the French made from centuries ago. So the newer approach is to buy paperweights with more character and less price.

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Records


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Records are one of the collectibles that can be enjoyed in their original manner. in my previous post i touched on the subject of gramophones, and today it is only appropriate that we discuss records for they go hand in hand.

The earliest records were Thomas Edison's tinfoil cylinder and which was replaced by waxy material until 1910.

The first circular records were vulcanised rubber discs with their galvano-plastic coating, which were patented along with beliner's gramophone in 1887.

What should you collect? well as with most things, it is really best to specialize. if you select something from the period of 1920 onwards, it would prove to be a valuable collection. specifically the swing records of the year between world wars.

If you like modern jazz you might like to collect records of Ella fitzgerald, Dizzie Gillespie, Stan Getz and the like. They are a must from the forties.

Then there are the crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Vic Damone, Perry Como. Their records must surely appreciate in value.

How about records of Mario Lanza? The early rock n roll years. If you can discover a pile of early rock and roll records, i'll bet you can make your pile.

Although, re -recording is now so common and the sound quality of these copies are so good( and not to mention cd, ipod that music is easily available), that the age of the record, i mean the record itself is now of interest only to the true collector and this reduces the possibilities of records as an investment.

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