I have always enjoyed admiring classic and collectable cars, they have a certain dignity and appeal to me. This is a feeling shared by many an enthusiast from the collectable cars scene. Stemming for a love of the past and antiques this collectable brings 4 wheels and an engine with it, which makes petrol heads ear’s perk up too. All round fun to restore and fun to own – classic and collectable cars are welcomed to Collectables Now!
When it comes to precious metals, one of the most well known is silver. A lovely metal to collect that finds itself in lots of different forms around the world, from silver chalices to silver jewellery, coins and other collectable items. Collectables now really enjoys precious metals and silver antiques and silver collectables, we have just added them to our site and there’s some fantastic examples available right now.
Considered by many to be the ultimate in combination of design and graphical techniques, Art deco is a phrase which covers many areas of design. The grand combination of Cubism, Futurism and around 10 other concepts (depending on who you ask), Art Deco is the sum of the art movement within the 1920s through 1940’s that has inspired countless creative concepts in the past centurys. Art Deco items populate the world as we know it, with art deco furniture, art deco architecture and art deco paintings commonplace. We may not realise but art deco has affected our lives to this day with buildings, graphics and even cars being influenced by the efforts of the art community with Art deco. Today we have added an art deco section to Collectables now so have a look now!
If you haven’t yet seen the awesome trilogy of films that is the Lord of the Rings then where have you been? Heralded as one of the most epic stories, battles and all round entertaining recreation of a book since the beginning of film the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is the ultimate in fantastic fantasy films. With great films come great collectables, Lord of the Rings (abbv. LOTR) is no exception, there are some very excellent LOTR – Lord of the Rings Collectables out there and we have the best selection available online today. Tolkien’s wonderful book became one of the biggest hit films ever..read more about it on our Lord of the Rings pages.
It takes a fair few different types of people to make up the world, and chances are you know someone who loves retro and kitsch items, even if you don’t realise it! Ever walked into someone’s house and seen some wacky wall paper or noticed some retro clothing that’s cool? Well now you can find a whole heap of retro stuff that’s for sale in the uk on Collectables now, just check out our collectable retro category by clicking this phone!!
Celebrity Collectables have been a big thing for as long as the celebrity has existed and right now nothing is bigger than the modern day celebrity. People adore film stars, rock stars and even tv stars. There are all sorts of famous people that become celebrities, at which point their signature, photo or a prop they have used in a film becomes a celebrity collectable - with this in mind we have added the Celebrity collectables category to Collectables now!
Betty Boop is a cartoon charector that not many of us can forget, and the first cartoon charector to have sound used with the cartoon. Betty Boop collectables can be enjoyed by all the family, mothers want to be he, fathers strangely like her and kids find her funny. A well known cartoon charector that is funny and a good investment.
We were all kids one day, or if you can’t remember that then we all have kids one day – and with kids comes the temptation to satisfy them – even the best eating families go to mcdonalds once a year or so – despite its decline in business. Something once used by McDonalds to make its kids meals more appealing to children (Happy Meals) McDonalds toys last as a collectable with huge scope. There are over 100,000 different Mc’D Happy meal toys, making it an interesting collectable.
I always thought Pewter was a stone – Very wrong. Pewter is a type of metal, like silver or gold. Famous for having a huge variety of tankards, hip flasks and other drinking vessels made from it – Pewter provides a tarnish free alternative to traditional metals. The Variety of Pewter antiques and Collectables is largely substantial and always fun to take some time out and look at. They are all usually well marked with date stamps and make a great collectable item, because you can use them to drink or eat from – as pewter items do not tarnish – making them long lasting antiques.
Beanie Babies and Beanie Bears have shot up in popularity within the last 5 years – its quite prominent to note that one beanie bear has been sold for £5000 in a uk auction – quite a lot of money for a plush beanie bear! So it seems collecting beanie bears can be a valid pursuit, both for financial affluence and for a great collection of plush toys. With all you beanie bear collecotrs in mind we have set up a new category aiming at collectable TY beanie babies and bears. You can find everything there from mint condition ty bears to near mint ty babies!