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Old 03-27-2023, 08:40 AM   #1
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"Collectables"

I freely admit, being of sound mind, but not body (I’m a candidate for hip replacement), what I know about artwork, you could fit on the head of a pin. I suspect, although I can’t speak for others, is that there are many more out there like me. I bring this up because, recently, the thought of getting into “collectables” has crossed my mind.

Moreover, I feel that our currency and its spending power is turning into “Monopoly money.” Years ago, when I played “Monopoly” with my friends, I often fantasized when I was raking in the “money” with my properties, that it was “real money.” Those gold-colored $100 “Monopoly-money” bills. Today, I have that same feeling, although, in this case, I'm not fantasizing.

In that vein, that's how I currently feel about the money I get from my monthly teachers' pension-check. Although the amount stays the same, what it can buy is, as Simon & Garfunkel might croon: ”slip slidin' away.”

It’s here that I hark back to collectables. Oh, I was, in a manner of speaking, into collectables, years ago, although I didn’t know it. Had I known, I wouldn’t have treated my baseball cards so roughly. We kids used them to create a motorcycle sound by putting them between the spokes in the wheels of our bikes. We’d also shoot them against a stoop. It was sort of like “pitching pennies” only with baseball cards. All those Mickey Mantle's, Ted Williams', Jackie Robinson's, Stan Musial's, etc. In the end, those baseball cards were thrown out, en masse. My mother needed space in the closet. Hundreds of baseball cards ended up in the trash.

As for other collectables, I did collect stamps. I recall a yellowish-covered stamp book that listed the countries and pictures of the stamps you were looking for. That lasted for all of about one year.

Further, I did briefly get into coin-collecting. I recall having some Indian-head pennies and a couple of older coins (there were flea markets where you could buy coins). Yet, that too, was short-lived.

Oh, now that I think of it, when I was younger I had a few autographs. My friends and I would wait near the exit of the old Boston Garden for the players to come out. In those days, it was Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman, Ed McCauley, Frank Ramsey, Jim Loscutoff, etc. I don’t know what became of those autographs.

As for toys, I did have a wooden Flexible Flyer for "coasting," a three-speed Raleigh bike, and a bunch of baseball gloves: a Walt Dropo first-basemen's mitt and a Bobby Doerr. Oh, and my father's old “pancake style" glove. In one case, the glove had, over the years,turned into a bloc of petrified wood.

As I hark back to the topic of art, we did, now that I think of it, have a piece of artwork in our Dorchester (section of Boston) apartment. When I was in the 4th grade, our class had art every Friday afternoon. I remember we were painting with water colors. I recall one of my paintings had to do with cowboys on horseback. In those days, I was big on Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Red Ryder, etc. As it turns out, our teacher thought that my rendering was one of the best. She pasted a star on my watercolor painting and handed it back to me. I brought it home. My mother was so proud that she put a magnet on it to hold in place on the refrigerator door.

In concluding, when it comes to art, I wouldn’t know a Picasso from paint-by-numbers. Yet, I firmly believe that in light of our current inflationary cycle, owning “collectables, might be a feasible strategy to consider in overall financial planning.
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