Collectors insurance is surprisingly cheap. I guess companies don’t have to pay out very often.
But what is the dollar value of e.g. 1,000 plastic clips? Another collector might want some of the rare ones, but selling the whole collection as a unit seems unlikely. Which is the only thing that could set a value on it.
Replacement cost is what it is worth.
But what are we replacing? 1000 generic plastic clips that Amazon sells for WAG $10? Or those particular 1000 carefully curated no-two-alike clips from all over the world and across decades of time?
if you’re buying collectors insurance, it’s the latter, not the former IMO.
Definitely the latter and the collector better get busy categorizing on a spreadsheet and taking pictures of the rarities.
But if there isn’t really a replacement market, then they are irreplaceable and kind of arguably invaluable.
From the way the types are nested at the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (thanks iiandyiiii) they’re not only describing them, they’re speculating on their evolutionary lines.
I have an extremely rare 1947 plastic bread clip. Only 6 were made in that year
due to the post office miners strike in Bolivia. One sold in 2004 for $18.6M
Jeeze, I came in posting what I thought was a hilarious jokey post about insuring them and making sure they were in a will (obviously wasn’t hilarious). Then I find some of these could be worth money. Shows you what I know. I’d just dump them in the landfill next to the harddrive overflowing with Bitcoins.
Collectors insurance requires a formal appraisal. Some things, like books and art, are fairly straightforward. Weird collections need to find somebody - usually in the community, but maybe an overall antiques dealer - that the insurance company will find acceptable.
What exactly do you spinning tuckers do? Presumably you hold the open end of the bag and spin the bag to close off the empth space between the bread and the opening, but what gets tucked where?
Upon spinning, you’ve created a- let’s call it a pigtail- that would unwind itself if placed down. So you tuck the end of the pigtail under the loaf so that the weight of the loaf keeps it from unwinding.
In truth, you don’t really need the spin. You can just tuck.
I twist and use a wooden clothespin. I’ve done this for years and it works great. I find myself getting all twisted up with those ties and clips that the bread comes with and they go in the trash.
I used to work for a commercial fish processing/cannery company. We were looking for system to label the insulated totes of fish that we moved around with semi trucks and forklifts. Previously we stapled a label to the tote, but the food safety people did not like the possibility of a small metal staple ending up in our fish.
I actually tracked down one of the company’s that makes these clips. We used the ones with a sturdy waterproof label attached to them. We used a Sharpie to put our info on the label and then snapped the plastic clip onto a hog ring that was permanently connected to the insulated fish tote. We orded them in batches of 10,000.
I remember reading an article about elderly people making sandwiches and accidentally swallowing the plastic clips (which can cause a perforate bowel).
https://academic.oup.com/jscr/article/2022/6/rjac163/6609161
Where is the fun in that? The spin jazzes it up!
No no no. You separate the opening after the spin and turn that over the loaf. Like rolling your socks.
And…for those annoyed the bread is left open far too often they have Rubbermaid bread loaf holders.
I’ve done that a few times when I couldn’t find a clip.
We need to get one of those or a traditional breadbox.* One of our cats is altogether too fond od jumping onto the table or counter and chewing on plastic bags.
* Which things may or not be bigger than.
The spin also vacuum seals it.
When I mailed the material for my book to be published I had to send the original negatives (Over 1000), the original prints with captions from each one and all the written text representing over a years worth of research. I could only get it insured for the cost of the film and prints, a hundred bucks or so.
I actually prefer the clothespin, the S&T is the backup. Also use various sizes of binder clips for plastic bags of freezer items.