# Future Antiques **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-antiques/624830 "2012-06-11T17:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-antiques/624830/21 "2012-06-11T20:24:53Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Seems weird, but perhaps comic books. > > As a kid, I had the first several Superman and Batman comics along with a couple of feet deep stacks of others. > > When I turned 18 and was about to go into the Army, my mother wanted to throw them all out. I tried every argument to persuade her to keep them, except the improbable one that some day they would be worth a fortune. Who knew? Bummer! Years ago I was reading a book about the Beatles and it had a section on valuable collectables. We had a bunch of them! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-antiques/624830/22 "2012-06-11T21:06:32Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > … > I say go for first edition hardbound books with the original covers; having them signed would be a huge bonus. Real books are going to become a rarity due to eBooks. > > Also, I would think that album art will be huge at some point. It’s just the right size to collect and there are enough of them out there to have several grades of condition to make collecting interesting. Intact 45 rpm covers may in fact be worth more than albums because fewer will have survived and they are easier to store. CD covers will be practically worthless because the are too small to appreciate. I could see first edition books having a much smaller, but more rabid audience. Harder to find a buyer and condition has to be there, but museums will want to have some books in their collections to show off 😉 Vintage guitars, electric and acoustic, are already up in value if you have the right ones. There has been a down trend in the market due to the economy but it is picking back up again. Now, will they still be collectible in 100 years? I think so - I suspect much less current-for-2115 music will be made on guitar; much more likely to be the current-generation iPad jacked right into your brain or something. But just like with old violins and other old instruments, there will still be folks who still actually “play instruments” and some guitars will still represent the best examples within that context. With acoustic flattops, the stress put on the top due to string tension always threads to make the guitar implode and there have been fears that guitars will eventually become unplayable over time, but so far that hasn’t panned out with old-but-maintained Martins and Gibsons from the 20’s and 30’s… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-antiques/624830.md?page=1)