Collecting Antique Trunks

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Any shrink can tell what kind of a man you are, by the baggage you keep. But the kind of baggage I’m referring to is the luggage any bellman knows like the back of his hand.

Collecting antique trunks is interesting. You remember an era where families send off their kids to boarding schools and had them take antique trunks with them. Stuffed with books, sweaters etc.

Antique trunks have different styles namely; flat top trunks(steamer trunks are also known as flat top trunks), dome top trunks(also known as camel back trunks or humpback trunks), half or hat trunks, Jenny Lind trunks(peep into the keyhole and see a figure”8” or hourglass shape),oak slat trunks(considered the most rare trunks today),doll trunks ,specialty trunks(for musical instruments ,costumes and make up),pyramidal trunks, wardrobe trunks( characteristically has drawers on one end and a hanging space on the other end) and wall trunks.

If you can spot initials “LV” anywhere in your vintage trunk, then you can be sure you have a treasure in your hands. Louis Vuitton vintage trunks fetch in top dollars. If you have the original keys, tags or label all the more the prices go up.

It is known that a wide selection of vintage trunks can be seen at flea markets in London and Paris such as vintage Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Goyard antique trunks from the 1920s to 1950s.

Especially authentic steamer trunks, you can see and feel they are marvels of craftsmanship. They are engineered to be portable homes. From an outside view antique steamer trunks could be seen as nothing more than beautiful boxes.

Open them up however and a different world reappears. Its features, ran from a foldout ironing board(complete with an iron and built in laundry bag and a shoe case. You can even customize it to fit your laptop, tv, Bose speakers even you vintage martini shaker.

Nobody packs for the journey anymore, now we pack for the trip. If you want to wax nostalgic collecting antique trunks is it.


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Collecting Vintage Drums

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Collecting vintage drums have gain more and more popularity among the drumming community and collectors alike.

Percussion enthusiasts only know how fun it is to beat to the rhythm of your favorite music. But I can’t say the same for the next door neighbor of drummer Dave and bongo Bob.

For a vintage drum to be collectible it doesn’t have to be rare( albeit an important factor). Black Beauties are rare also a collectible, but Radio Kings are not rare but it is also a collectible.

It depends on your interests if you want to collect a whole vintage drums set or separately buy the parts like vintage ride cymbals, vintage crash cymbals, vintage hi-hat cymbals, vintage drum stands, vintage drum thrones, vintage drum pedals , vintage drum rims, vintage drum mounts, single vintage snare drums, vintage bass drums and vintage toms.

Before buying vintage drum set check if there are scratches, hairline cracks, scuffs, patch up jobs, gouges stains, dings, dents, defacements, rust, pitting, spongy, caved in and bulged out areas or any other peripheral signs of wear and tear.

Check if there’s any signs of modification and make sure all parts are original. Originality in condition increases the value of the vintage drum set if you considering reselling it in the future.

Determine the overall tone quality of the vintage drums, make sure it resonate properly. Check out forums and talk to musicians and vintage drum collectors if you want to increase your knowledge about the subject.

Drums manufactured between the 1920’s to 1960’s such as Gretsch, Pearl, Slingerland vintage drums are the most sought after.Rarity, historic significance (like the Ludwig drum set Ringgo Starr used when The Beatles made their first appearance to the American audience in the Ed Sullivan show), preservation of originality and of course the marketplace trends makes a vintage drum set collectible.

It’s always the that market drives the values. Again it all goes back to the supply and demand theory of economics. It’s also true of collecting vintage drum set as with any other collection.

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Collecting Wine

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Once upon a time the typical wine collector is the British aristocrat but those days are gone. The current economic boom in America and its socioeconomic breadth have produced a new batch of men and women who acquire and enjoy fine wine.

People collect everything under the sun, thus this blog is what it’s all about. People collect coins to motorcycles, baseball cards to comic books, The wine collector, however stands alone. He is the only one who destroys his treasures in order to enjoy them.

Wine collecting can be as much a lifestyle as it is a hobby. What a better way to indulge your passion than by retrieving a well-aged bottle from your cellar and sharing it with your loved ones. Having wine on hand also precludes having to dash to the corner liquor store every time someone drops by unexpectedly for dinner or drink.

Yet, a well-stocked cellar enables you to transform an ordinary evening into an instant celebration simply by opening a special bottle.

A beginning wine collector should be aware of purchasing options, importance of proper storage, methods of growing, protecting and managing your cellar. He must have the patience, willingness to learn and enough money to fill his cellar. As your knowledge of wine grows and tastes develop, your collection will expand accordingly.

You can have the option of collecting only Bordeaux, it’s called vertical cellar, regional cellar which focuses only in Burgundy, global cellar- a selection from many of the world’s major wine regions and of course collecting only investment-grade wine which will appreciate in value as time goes by.

When looking to store your collection, whether it’s beginner’s stake of 250 bottles or thousand bottles, there are two standard refrigeration units: A free- standing refrigeration unit or a built-in cellar. The choice you make will depend on your financial resources, the space you have available and your goal as collector.

The fascination of wine and wine collecting is never ending. There is simply too much to know. What makes a good wine, the components that go into it, the types of soil, the different types of grapes, the aging of the wine so on and so forth. You can never really get completely on top of it. No one can know everything. Everyday there is something new to learn.

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