Collectibles–Table Lamps

One of the hottest new types of collectible glassware, something that nearly everyone is going for in a big way, seems to be lamps and lighting fixtures.

Of course, as with any other type of collectible, you can go for it in a huge way, and sink a great deal of money into your new hobby, or start small and work your way up.I prefer the small and working my way up, as I don’t care to really sink a lot of money into something new until I spend a little while learning the in’s and out’s of what makes it command a given price and how to tell the good from the bad. Thats a strategy I recommend for anyone actually.

Learn all you can about what you want to collect. Get some broad based history on it, and find out what makes it valuable, and why its a great thing to collect, and something that will increase in value. Lets face it, while we don’t necessairly collect something for its inherent monetary worth, we certainly don’t want to spend 500 dollars and find out that two years from now its only going to be worth fifty.

E-Bay, that ever popular venue for turning someone elses trash into your new treasure is a great place to find lighting fixtures. Particularly fascinating to the collector recently seems to be fifties style fixtures, which are gathering up some great prices and selling rather well.

For the most part what I’m seeing go well are the table lamps and some of them are commanding great prices.
This pair of poodle table lamps currently lists on Ebay for about 300 USD, while another pair, pictured below, which are  crystal and quite perfect with just one small flaw is retailing for around 800 USD.

There are of course some lower cost lamps that are fifties decorator style, which are retailing for a lot less, assuming of course that there are more of them available perhaps and this is why they aren’t commanding the more massive figures.

This seems to me to be a great place to start if you’re interested in collecting lamps and lights, and particularly if you’re interested in fifties style decorating articles with a view toward perhaps furnishing your home in this fashion, which seems to be the trend.

The art decor lamp shown below is currently listed on Ebay for under 80 USD, making it a reasonable buy and something that you might want to start out with.

LIke any other type of collecting start small, and find out what interests you most, then specialize, and learn all you can about your particular variety of item. It will, in the long run, save you a lot of time, and probably a lot of money.

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