Zombie Village mug fetches big $$$$ on ebay - Collecting Tiki

T Tattoo Tiki Socialite Los Angeles Joined: Sep 24, 2005 Posts: 321	T Tattoo Posted posted on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 10:30 PM I didn't buy it but I personally find $385 not that much money when one thinks that this is one the more coveted mugs in Tiki culture. In almost any other collecting genre prices for top pieces go thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Just look at comic books where a 1960's issue of Spiderman went for over a $100,000 or in movie posters where a Frankenstein poster can go for over a million: http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-BRIDE-OF-FRANKENSTEIN-1935-Karloff-27x41-UNIVERSAL_W0QQitemZ380138589624QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5882068db8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_4004wt_1167 Tiki collecting is frankly cheap and be glad Tiki mugs are still this cheap. I think if most of us look at what we've spend on mugs in the past year and pooled that money into one mug, The Zombie Village Mug probably could have been ours. Don't get me wrong, $385 is a lot money for a mug but I think within the reality of a collecting field and it being a coveted piece, I just don't think it's that much.

I didn't buy it but I personally find $385 not that much money when one thinks that this is one the more coveted mugs in Tiki culture. In almost any other collecting genre prices for top pieces go thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Just look at comic books where a 1960's issue of Spiderman went for over a $100,000 or in movie posters where a Frankenstein poster can go for over a million:

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-BRIDE-OF-FRANKENSTEIN-1935-Karloff-27x41-UNIVERSAL_W0QQitemZ380138589624QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5882068db8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_4004wt_1167

Tiki collecting is frankly cheap and be glad Tiki mugs are still this cheap. I think if most of us look at what we've spend on mugs in the past year and pooled that money into one mug, The Zombie Village Mug probably could have been ours.

Don't get me wrong, $385 is a lot money for a mug but I think within the reality of a collecting field and it being a coveted piece, I just don't think it's that much.

Post #476298 by Tattoo on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 10:30 PM