Collectibles and memorabilia are among the most popular new ways for home and business owners to invest a few dollars while providing the ultimate in décor and atmosphere. The wide market of memorabilia covers just about anything connected with celebrities, well-known events, history, sports, movies, and – well, just about anything you can imagine. If there’s a fan base for it, there’s a good chance that you’ll find memorabilia associated with it. Of course, that also means that no matter what your favorite passion is, you’re almost positive to find memorabilia associated with it.
And that memorabilia has come out into the open. Where once collectors jealously and protectively stored their celebrity autographs and other items in locked safes and safety deposit boxes, today’s collector delights in the principles of conspicuous consumption by displaying his collection of movie tickets, movie posters, autographed guitars and all the other mementoes and memorabilia that are available today.
And what a variety of memorabilia items there are on the market. Music lovers can mount guitars signed by their favorite musical artists on the wall of a family room. Movie buffs have a treasure trove of signed lobby cards, movie memorabilia, celebrity autographs and candid photos framed with their certified autographs with which to decorate their in-home media rooms and movie theaters. Sport fans decorating a man room can hang autographed team jerseys in frames on their walls, or create displays of signed balls, pucks, bats and hockey sticks to strike envy in the hearts of their friends.
The love of memorabilia and its display doesn’t stop with the typical celebrity pursuits, and isn’t even limited to humans. Fans of the horse circuit can find beautifully framed horse photo memorabilia, including framed photos of Triple Crown winners and other famous horses that have captured the public imagination. Framed photos, often autographed by the jockeys that rode them in their most famous races, adorn the walls of restaurant dining rooms and executive board rooms around the country.
The best-known dealers in memorabilia and collectibles cater to a wide assortment of fans in a broad assortment of genres. It’s become more and more common for the best dealers to assemble small collections of memorabilia in a particular genre and sell them as a single framed piece of wall art & décor. You might find, for example, a frame that holds pictures of the three Triple Crown Winners of the 20th century, or a framed collage that displays replicas of tickets to every Kentucky Derby ever run.
The new trend of displaying memorabilia makes much more sense than tucking the prized possessions away to “keep them safe.” After all, what fun is it to own a full collection of original Star Wars posters if you can’t show them off to all of your friends?
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