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What Makes Something Collectible?

WHAT MAKES SOMETHING COLLECTIBLE?

The first collectibles - objects made by manufacturers for the express purpose of collecting - came as premiums in other products: baseball cards in packs of cigarettes or bubble gum, for example.
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Something is only as important as it is to the person owning it or wanting it. If enough people want it and like it, then it becomes a collectible. If something is worthless to me, it doesn't matter how many I have, its not a collectible to me.

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Like kon said anything can be a collectable as long as you like that certain thing you are collecting. Even if no one else does it's still your collectables and if someone does it will have more worth to them.

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I agree that collectibles are things that have meaning to the one that owns them. It does not matter what the collectible is or how many the person has, if it means something to them, then it is a collectible.