January is National Hobby Month- what better time to get your collectibles organized and your collections valued from the holiday haul? Choose a hobby that you have always wanted to pick up and make a New Year's resolution to let yourself indulge in your new activity. If you have children, help them beat the winter blahs by assisting them with starting a new collection or craft interest. If you need any more ideas, check out this article's list. Add your newly acquired pieces into your iTaggit collection and show them off to our other users. I hope you enjoy your new 2008 pastime and Happy National Hobby Month!
Showing posts with label value collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value collections. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
Buffalo Sabres To Produce Framed Limited Edition Winter Classic Collectible
In celebration of the Amp Energy NHL Winter Classic, the Buffalo Sabres are producing a limited edition framed collectible that will be autographed by Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller.
The autographed memorabilia will feature two photographs framed side by side in a solid wood gallery frame measuring 27"x21." One picture will be an autographed action shot of Miller from the game, and the other will be an aerial photo of Ralph Wilson Stadium, also taken during the game. Also included will be Winter Classic, Sabres and NHL pins, along with an inscription plate mounted within the frame.
Only 2,008 pieces will be made available, and can be purchased online at www.sabres.com, and at the Sabres Store at HSBC Arena. For more of the original article, click here, and also be sure to organize your collectibles with us. If you need your collections valued, add them into our “What's My Item Worth” collection.
The autographed memorabilia will feature two photographs framed side by side in a solid wood gallery frame measuring 27"x21." One picture will be an autographed action shot of Miller from the game, and the other will be an aerial photo of Ralph Wilson Stadium, also taken during the game. Also included will be Winter Classic, Sabres and NHL pins, along with an inscription plate mounted within the frame.
Only 2,008 pieces will be made available, and can be purchased online at www.sabres.com, and at the Sabres Store at HSBC Arena. For more of the original article, click here, and also be sure to organize your collectibles with us. If you need your collections valued, add them into our “What's My Item Worth” collection.
Collectible Card Game To Be Exhibited At International Consumer Electronics Show
TM Media Group, Inc. announced that it will be attending this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be exhibiting its new online video and collectible card game, Street Cred at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, offering the Company a vital opportunity to reach out to industry professionals and joint marketing partners. TMMG will also have Manaj, daughter of Hip Hop pioneer Dr. Dre, make a public appearance at this year's show. Manaj is the first rap artist signed to TM Media Group, and also appears in Street Cred.
The International Consumer Electronics Show is the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology and America's largest annual tradeshow of any kind. The event is held at various locations throughout the city, including the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sands Expo and Convention Center, and the Las Vegas Hilton, where over 2,000 exhibitors will be showing off the latest in Electronic Gaming, Mobile Electronics, Robotics, Retail Resources, and more.
"The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest venues for electronic gaming in the world and we look forward to showcasing Street Cred to a very large audience. We believe this year's show will be a launch pad for a new era of online and collectible card games worldwide," stated Matt Harmon, CEO of TM Media Group, Inc.
Street Cred is the first and only online video and collectible card game to incorporate urban motifs, settings, images and celebrities. The marketing of Street Cred will follow a proven and successful model of online game delivery with a collectible card game component. The Company intends to continuously launch new online and offline add-on products simultaneously. This course enables users to play the game online initially as a free version with in-game advertising and then subsequently on a subscription basis, as well as having the ability to purchase trading cards in stores. TM Media's goal is to ensure a long product cycle for Street Cred by creating add-ons and upgrades, as well as by establishing and supporting organized tournaments and community based professional 'Street Cred players.' Additionally, the Company intends to utilize and capitalize on ancillary marketing opportunities by licensing celebrities for its card imaging, as well as designing customized cards by top industry artists.
If you enjoy interactive games, does Street Cred sound like a successful idea? The cards seem to have the potential of becoming a collection of value. If you play this, organize your collectible cards on iTaggit and let us know how the idea turns out. For more information from the original release, click here.
The International Consumer Electronics Show is the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology and America's largest annual tradeshow of any kind. The event is held at various locations throughout the city, including the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sands Expo and Convention Center, and the Las Vegas Hilton, where over 2,000 exhibitors will be showing off the latest in Electronic Gaming, Mobile Electronics, Robotics, Retail Resources, and more.
"The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest venues for electronic gaming in the world and we look forward to showcasing Street Cred to a very large audience. We believe this year's show will be a launch pad for a new era of online and collectible card games worldwide," stated Matt Harmon, CEO of TM Media Group, Inc.
Street Cred is the first and only online video and collectible card game to incorporate urban motifs, settings, images and celebrities. The marketing of Street Cred will follow a proven and successful model of online game delivery with a collectible card game component. The Company intends to continuously launch new online and offline add-on products simultaneously. This course enables users to play the game online initially as a free version with in-game advertising and then subsequently on a subscription basis, as well as having the ability to purchase trading cards in stores. TM Media's goal is to ensure a long product cycle for Street Cred by creating add-ons and upgrades, as well as by establishing and supporting organized tournaments and community based professional 'Street Cred players.' Additionally, the Company intends to utilize and capitalize on ancillary marketing opportunities by licensing celebrities for its card imaging, as well as designing customized cards by top industry artists.
If you enjoy interactive games, does Street Cred sound like a successful idea? The cards seem to have the potential of becoming a collection of value. If you play this, organize your collectible cards on iTaggit and let us know how the idea turns out. For more information from the original release, click here.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Time To Organize Holiday Gifts
Hello iTaggit friends,
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I was very pleased when some of my items from my iTaggit wish list appeared under the tree this year. I especially look forward to setting up my new green iPod mini! I hope all of you comic collectors out there received some great collectible additions, all of you antique and art aficionados acquired new pieces to be displayed in your homes, and of course all of you entertainment enthusiasts added new games, music, and dvds to your shelves, but all of you must be sure and add them to your iTaggit collection and share them with the rest of our community! There's no time like the present to get started on your birthday wish lists, and our Gallery is a great place to find ideas. I look forward to seeing what you all add, ask us if you need your collections valued, and I hope you have a happy new year!
Rare 'Jenny' Stamp Sells for $825,000
I found a great story this morning by the Associated Press about one of
the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. History. The “Inverted Jenny” sold for $825,000 to a New York collector who lost an auction last month in which another “Inverted Jenny” sold for $977,500. The rare 1918 24-cent stamp, depicting an upside-down Curtis JN-4 biplane known as “Jenny” is one of the finest known surviving stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints. The original 100 were bought at a Washington, D.C., post office in 1918. “This is the Rolls-Royce,” said Randy Shoemaker, founder of Professional Stamp Experts. “It's the most expensive airmail stamp in the world.”
Post your stamp collection on iTaggit, and then add them to our “What's My Item Worth” category if you're curious about your collection's value.
the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. History. The “Inverted Jenny” sold for $825,000 to a New York collector who lost an auction last month in which another “Inverted Jenny” sold for $977,500. The rare 1918 24-cent stamp, depicting an upside-down Curtis JN-4 biplane known as “Jenny” is one of the finest known surviving stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints. The original 100 were bought at a Washington, D.C., post office in 1918. “This is the Rolls-Royce,” said Randy Shoemaker, founder of Professional Stamp Experts. “It's the most expensive airmail stamp in the world.”Post your stamp collection on iTaggit, and then add them to our “What's My Item Worth” category if you're curious about your collection's value.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Dark Knight Trailer And Analysis!
It's here! It's here! The Dark Knight Trailer is here! Ok, it was leaked
earlier this week, but that won't stop me from watching it again and again. Click here for a great article outlining the trailer from MTV.com, as well as the trailer itself. They also have the leaked version on several of their other pages for your viewing pleasure. If you are lost, The Dark Knight is the sequel to the smash hit Batman Begins, based off the DC Batman comic books. I've outlined what is known about the movie in my blog The Dark Knight and have included in it some trivia about the filming. Enjoy Batman fans!!! Remember, if you're curious about the value of your collections, Batman or otherwise, add them into our What's My Item Worth collection and we will do our best to estimate it.
earlier this week, but that won't stop me from watching it again and again. Click here for a great article outlining the trailer from MTV.com, as well as the trailer itself. They also have the leaked version on several of their other pages for your viewing pleasure. If you are lost, The Dark Knight is the sequel to the smash hit Batman Begins, based off the DC Batman comic books. I've outlined what is known about the movie in my blog The Dark Knight and have included in it some trivia about the filming. Enjoy Batman fans!!! Remember, if you're curious about the value of your collections, Batman or otherwise, add them into our What's My Item Worth collection and we will do our best to estimate it.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
A Real National Treasure Mystery
The National Treasure sequel is coming to theaters in a couple weeks and it has entertainment collectors abuzz, but what they might not know is that we have our own national treasure mystery going on display this
month at the Library of Congress. A Wadseemuller map from 1507 has puzzled researchers from the moment it was discovered. It is the only known surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first named this land “America”. The 12 sheets that complete the map were purchased from German Prince Johannes Waldburg-Wolfegg for $10 million in 2003 from his valuable collection of historical documents.
The German monk Martin Waldseemuller drew them after he was approached by the Duke of Lorraine, 13 years following the first landing of Christopher Columbus in the Western Hemisphere. The result he and a group of scholars produced two years later was remarkably dead on. The shape of South America is mostly correct, to the point that key areas are drawn proportionally to each other within 70 miles of accuracy. Also, the map gives a mostly correct depiction of the west coast of South America, but according to our history books, Vasco Nunez de Balboa did not reach the Pacific by land until 1513, and Ferdinand Magellan did not round the southern tip of the landmass until 1520. So, from what we currently hold to be true, it technically should not have been possible to construct this map so precisely with the knowledge that we believe they were limited to, but this is only part one of the mystery.
Waldseemuller was very clear in his naming of this new land “America”
after Vespucci, a famous Florentine navigator who wrote letters describing his journeys to this new world. But for some unknown reason, Waldseemuller began to have regrets about the name, and in an atlas he produced six years later, he refers to it as “Terra Incognita” or “Unknown Land.” A few years after that, he digressed even further by reconnecting North America to Asia, and renaming this land mass “Terra de Cuba” (Land of Cuba) in the north, and “Terra Nova” (New World) in the south. Some speculate that political influences of Spain and Portugal played a part in the differentiation between the maps. One thing is for certain though. This map is the modern standard by which all further maps were developed, making it a keystone map, and an important piece in the developing understanding of the history of western civilization.
month at the Library of Congress. A Wadseemuller map from 1507 has puzzled researchers from the moment it was discovered. It is the only known surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first named this land “America”. The 12 sheets that complete the map were purchased from German Prince Johannes Waldburg-Wolfegg for $10 million in 2003 from his valuable collection of historical documents. The German monk Martin Waldseemuller drew them after he was approached by the Duke of Lorraine, 13 years following the first landing of Christopher Columbus in the Western Hemisphere. The result he and a group of scholars produced two years later was remarkably dead on. The shape of South America is mostly correct, to the point that key areas are drawn proportionally to each other within 70 miles of accuracy. Also, the map gives a mostly correct depiction of the west coast of South America, but according to our history books, Vasco Nunez de Balboa did not reach the Pacific by land until 1513, and Ferdinand Magellan did not round the southern tip of the landmass until 1520. So, from what we currently hold to be true, it technically should not have been possible to construct this map so precisely with the knowledge that we believe they were limited to, but this is only part one of the mystery.
Waldseemuller was very clear in his naming of this new land “America”
after Vespucci, a famous Florentine navigator who wrote letters describing his journeys to this new world. But for some unknown reason, Waldseemuller began to have regrets about the name, and in an atlas he produced six years later, he refers to it as “Terra Incognita” or “Unknown Land.” A few years after that, he digressed even further by reconnecting North America to Asia, and renaming this land mass “Terra de Cuba” (Land of Cuba) in the north, and “Terra Nova” (New World) in the south. Some speculate that political influences of Spain and Portugal played a part in the differentiation between the maps. One thing is for certain though. This map is the modern standard by which all further maps were developed, making it a keystone map, and an important piece in the developing understanding of the history of western civilization.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Napoleon Bonaparte Love Story Manuscript
Historical documents always add great value to the collections of those who intently seek them out. Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most infamous figures in European history, and he began his rise to prominence as a general during the French Revolution. He then staged a coup d'etat that landed him as the First Consul of France, which he 
parlayed into being the self-crowned Emperor. Later, by strategic alliances or by armed force, he gained control of most of continental Europe, which directly led to his disastrous invasion of Russia, followed by his infamous downfall at Waterloo. What most people don't realize is that Bonaparte was a writer, and before he moved on to political matters, he penned love stories. Recently, a single manuscript page from his 1795 short novel “Clisson and Eugenie” was sold for $35,400 at the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau, France. The page had been part of a private French family collection and the buyer's identity was not disclosed at the time. “Clisson and Eugenie” was written while he was a 26-year-old general on his rise to the aristocracy, though it was never published in Napoleon's lifetime. It is believed he loosely based it on his brief romance with the sister of his brother's wife. If you have any items from a significant historical era, iTaggit is always prepared to help you manage your collections and value your collectibles within them.
parlayed into being the self-crowned Emperor. Later, by strategic alliances or by armed force, he gained control of most of continental Europe, which directly led to his disastrous invasion of Russia, followed by his infamous downfall at Waterloo. What most people don't realize is that Bonaparte was a writer, and before he moved on to political matters, he penned love stories. Recently, a single manuscript page from his 1795 short novel “Clisson and Eugenie” was sold for $35,400 at the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau, France. The page had been part of a private French family collection and the buyer's identity was not disclosed at the time. “Clisson and Eugenie” was written while he was a 26-year-old general on his rise to the aristocracy, though it was never published in Napoleon's lifetime. It is believed he loosely based it on his brief romance with the sister of his brother's wife. If you have any items from a significant historical era, iTaggit is always prepared to help you manage your collections and value your collectibles within them.
Friday, November 30, 2007
A Fun Story Emphasizing The Importance Of Organizing Your Collectibles
Everyone has collectibles they value, and can recognize the little pang in your heart when one is misplaced. That is why we strive to get across the importance of organizing your collectibles so that you will never have one go missing again. Now, there will always be extraordinary circumstances that might happen, and for this original story in particular, it all came to a happy ending.
More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he's finding how it was discovered tough to swallow. A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it. Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather's barn near Sherburn. "I would spend most of my time out at his farm, and that's the only place I can think of that I would have lost it," Giles said about his bracelet on Thursday. The 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5. The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was embedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away. The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm. Giles, who now lives in Gloucester, Mass., said he received his old bracelet in September. "It was in pretty immaculate shape. Everything was working on it, and all the engravings on it were still legible," Giles said. "It was quite the surprise." Giles said he expects the bracelet to stay in his family for many years to come. "I have no plans on trying to lose it again."
I hope Giles' story brought you a smile for the coming weekend. If you happen on some old, perhaps lost, heirlooms, and need your collection valued, don't hesitate to add them into our “What's My Item Worth” section, and include your object's story in the notes for us to smile about.
More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he's finding how it was discovered tough to swallow. A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it. Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather's barn near Sherburn. "I would spend most of my time out at his farm, and that's the only place I can think of that I would have lost it," Giles said about his bracelet on Thursday. The 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5. The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was embedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away. The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm. Giles, who now lives in Gloucester, Mass., said he received his old bracelet in September. "It was in pretty immaculate shape. Everything was working on it, and all the engravings on it were still legible," Giles said. "It was quite the surprise." Giles said he expects the bracelet to stay in his family for many years to come. "I have no plans on trying to lose it again."
I hope Giles' story brought you a smile for the coming weekend. If you happen on some old, perhaps lost, heirlooms, and need your collection valued, don't hesitate to add them into our “What's My Item Worth” section, and include your object's story in the notes for us to smile about.
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