The year was 1953, and the British toy company Lesney Products came out with the first so-called Matchbox car. It's been a while since then and things have certainly changed.

Collectors of these model cars like it when they buy their cars already boxed. Nothing makes these collectors feel more like little kids than when they start painting the exterior. The people who collect these things live on the "fumes" to put together each and every piece as they would fix their very own car.

If you collect stamps, there is no doubt that you want the Inverted Jenny as part of your collection. This is a postage stamp issued in the US on May 10, 1918. The design of the stamp was supposed to contain a picture of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane. Through a mistake in the printing process, the image of the airplane was accidentally placed on the stamp upside down.

When you send a piece of mail, you have to attach postal stamps to show that you have paid the appropriate amount of postage for the size and weight of the envelope or package. The first such stamps to be used in the world were in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Learn about the history of the silver eagle dollar as well as information on storing and collecting these coins.

In the world of collectibles, fantasy items such as daggers and knives always are a popular hit with many different people. Go to a knife show and you will see plenty of people surrounding the fantasy knives and daggers collection. What is it about these designs that strike us as fascinating? It is the design or the function?

There are many children who have a favorite type of toy. This can be teddy bears, Cabbage Patch dolls, Care Bears, soft dogs and cats. They can even be the world famous Barbie and Ken dolls.

The moment I saw the map of Middle Earth illustrated in the first few pages of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein, I was hooked. Fantasy world wall maps create an amazing sense of immersion into your favorite fantasy realm.

The article explains you the facts about collecting Porcelain as art material & how you can determine the value of a particular Porcelain object. The article has been written by a passionate art collector himself who is now the owner of an Asian Art Gallery in California.

Model cars are basically a miniature representation of actual cars, and they are normally a to-scale model of the real cars.