I don’t have many collectibles. At one point, I tried to collect as many postcards as humanly possible and when that failed I turned to pennies. I had a good amount of pennies before my mom started complaining about all the jars I was taking up, and eventually, that came to an end as well.
Although I was collecting these items, I think for me it was more of a quantitative game. I always wanted to have the largest number of pennies as opposed to a limited number of coins but ones that were worth the most. Perhaps I had some hidden treasures in my stash, but I never really came across anything because I was going after sheer volume.
However, the opposite goes for the man in the video below. This clip takes us back to “America’s Antiques Road Show” and a specific episode where a man is presenting his prized possessions. The man brings his rhinoceros horn libation cups to the show and is on the chair looking for their current market value.
As the host discloses, these cups are made for “ceremonial presentation purposes,” and they were made in the late 17th to the early part of the 18th centuries. The owner of these antiques goes through all of his pieces, giving the specifics of when and where he bought them; he talks about how much money he spent on each cup as well. In total, he’s spent about to $5000.
That amount seems like a lot when you think that this man bought these pieces years ago, but if you hear the market value for them today, it’s all worth it!
Click on the link below and watch as Mark Walberg presents a full valuation of these rhinoceros horn libation cups!
