About Memorabilia...
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Are Music Books Memorabilia?
There have been plenty of music books published over the years, many of them frivolous and gossipy, but also more than a few that are serious and even weighty (such...
Are Music Magazines Classed as Memorabilia?
Music magazines and music papers aren’t a new phenomenon. They’ve been around for decades. Until the middle of the 1960s, however, there were few...
Auction Houses
Going, going, gone is the familiar cry of the auctioneer, and we’re used to hearing it for works of art or antiques, and news of them commanding record prices. But more...
British Blues Memorabilia
The British blues boom was the fuel for the 1960s rock explosion in the UK. Some many of the musicians who’d make an impact in the era came out of it – not just the...
Collecting Different Recorded Formats
These days it’s not uncommon to find musical recordings in several different formats. Although the CD is the standard choice for most music fans,...
Collecting Foreign Memorabilia
One of the treasure troves for music memorabilia collectors is foreign memorabilia. There can be a wealth of items available, ranging from various record releases,...
Collecting Old Vinyl
As people of a certain age will recall, before downloads, CDs, and cassettes, there was vinyl. It was the only way to buy music. There were 12 inch long playing...
eBay
For anyone wanting to begin collecting rock memorabilia, eBay is a good place to start – as long as you realise that you’re very unlikely to find a great rarity at a...
How do You Know it's Real?
As with any area of antiques, knowing that an item of rock memorabilia is authentic is vital, whether you’re buying or selling. Obviously, with many of the things...
How to Buy it
So you want to buy some rock memorabilia? Maybe it’s as an investment hoping you can sell it in the future at a profit. Or maybe it’s just to collect something...
How to Sell it
So you have something to sell. It might be quite ordinary – an old magazine maybe – or something rarer – that original Beatles butcher cover LP signed by a member of the...
How to Spot Counterfeit Memorabilia
Let's face it, there's a lot of fake music memorabilia out there. If there's money to be made, someone will create a counterfeit to make a profit. That means some...
Memorabilia to Invest In 2000 & Onwards
The value of memorabilia rises due to both scarcity and the passage of time. Those, at least, are two of the main factors, the other, and...
Music Memorabilia by Region
Often, in the history of pop and rock, a band has emerged from a city or region, only to be followed by others from the same area. Think, for instance, of all the...
New Music Memorabilia
Can it be worthwhile collecting new music memorabilia? Won’t it take a long time to really appreciate in value? More than that, how can it be possible to determine...
Provenance
When you buy something, especially if you’re spending in the hundreds or thousands, you want to be absolutely sure the item is what it claims to be. That’s true not only...
Reproductions
It might seem hard to credit, when there’s a market flooded with all manner of rock memorabilia but there’s actually a demand for reproduction memorabilia, too, to the...
Sheet Music: Is it Memorabilia?
Most people don’t pay much attention to sheet music, unless they’re musicians. Even then, it tends to be classical musicians who purchase sheet music. But you can...
Should You Collect Reissued Vinyl?
For quite a few years it seemed as if vinyl was dead, going the way of the 78 rpm record and the wax cylinder. But there’s been a small resurgence of popularity for...
Signed T-shirts and Other Items/Things
All sorts of things qualify as rock memorabilia, and for collectors, as well as those with items to sell, that’s a good thing. Even band...
The Big Players
There are people and organisations who’ve amassed some very large collections of rock memorabilia. Of course organisations with big pockets will always have a huge...
What is Rock Memorabilia?
You might well have read in newspapers and magazines about the tremendous sometimes outrageous, prices being paid for rock’n’roll memorabilia. It’s a rapidly growing...
What Rock Memorabilia Should You Collect?
Collecting music memorabilia is a very personal hobby. You’re the one who makes the decision of which bands or artists to collect, and what areas...
Who Collects Memorabilia?
Music memorabilia is big business. Millions are spent on it annually and the auction houses, as well as private traders, do brisk business. A quick glance on any auction...
Why Collect Memorabilia?
Everyone has their favourite artists and bands. For most of us it’s enough to buy CDs or download music. If it’s someone you really like you might buy a book on them and...
