Early Memorabilia
Below are our 10 articles in the 'early memorabilia' category:
Autographs are some of the easiest things to collect; going back a few decades many boys had an autograph book which they used to collect signatures of the famous and not so famous. Autographs are ...
The biggest problem you’re going to encounter if you try to collect 1950s rock memorabilia is the fact that there’s very little of it about. That’s especially true of clothing from the period. It’s ...
Country music might not be tremendously popular in Britain – it certainly doesn’t have the fan base it enjoys in the United States – and it doesn’t generate the memorabilia prices rock does but it ...
Elvis was the biggest name of early rock’n’roll but he was hardly the only figure of the time. Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly were among others who also ...
Elvis was the iconic figure of rock from the 1950s, so famous that he was recognised around the globe by just a single name. His popularity never faded, through the Hollywood years, the comeback and ...
Frank Sinatra became a huge star in the 1940s, attracting hordes of female fans (known as bobbysoxers). During the 1950s he became the King of Las Vegas, performing and hanging out in the casinos of ...
Can you find instruments that belonged to musicians from the 1950s or even earlier? In short, yes, there are a few, but you’re going to pay through the nose for them. However, on the plus side, even ...
Jazz has had a rich history since it began in the late 19th or early 20th century in New Orleans, but the market for jazz memorabilia is much smaller than for rock, or probably even for country ...
When you go to a concert and see the plethora of things on offer from CDs to tee shirts to key rings and far beyond, you’d be excused for thinking it’s a fairly recent phenomenon. In fact it dates ...
Posters from the 1950s are eminently desirable to collectors of rock memorabilia. Concert posters in particular, can command high prices, with those of Alan Freed’s groundbreaking package tours (the ...
