Hippie Collections
It's hard for people who didn't live through the 1960s to understand just how much turmoil was going on, according to Saturday Early Show Collectibles Expert Tony Hyman. Today, that means there's a lot to collect.
The newspaper accounts of those days don't have any value. What's important are leaflets, handbills and paper throwaways about anti-war demonstrations, protest marches, radical movements, SDS, Black Panthers, the Yippies, the Chicago Seven, the Weathermen, Peace and Freedom Party, the '68 convention, hippies, Haight-Ashbury, the drug scene, psychedelic art, rock 'n' roll, women's rights, free love... There was a lot going on.
Especially interesting are notices of one-time events. Most of these items sell for only a few dollars, but insider, confidential memos and draft copies can be $50 or more.
Find out about other collectibles described by The Saturday Early Show's Tony Hyman in the Collectibles Archive or visit Tony Hyman's Web site. If you think you have a collectible worth a lot of cash, send an email to sat@cbsnews.com with "What's It Worth?" in the subject line. Or write to "What's It Worth?" The Saturday Early Show, 514 West 57th St., 6th floor, New York, N.Y. 10019. |
If, like Hyman, you are in your 50s or 60s and picked this stuff up as souvenirs of what was going on in your life, don't let these memories die with you. Get this stuff into the hands of people who care. Most of these paper items were produced in very limited quantities. You may have the only remaining copy.
Value isn't so much in money, as it is in preserving the history of the most radical decade since the Revolutionary War.
If you have paper and other collectibles of the 1960s counter-culture, politics or social activist movements, please contact '60s historian-collector Richard Synchef at 208 Summit Drive, Corte Madera, Calif., 415) 927-8844. Fax number is (415) 927-8899 and email address, hippie@tobacciana.com
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