We are all fans of the Star Wars trilogy. Watching these movies as a kid was probably one of the best memories we could have. Finding any of the original characters’ action figures could be like finding an oil well in your backyard.
Hardcore collectors are willing to spend a pretty penny to get their hands on rare Star Wars toys. These fans were so diehard that in 2015, the Luke Skywalker Action figure released in 1978 was sold for a whopping $25,000. Woah!
Original Cracker Jack Poster
That much for a poster? Incredible, you might think, but when a Wisconsin police officer was going through his barn he found one of these old posters, printed in 1915. A baseball card-collecting friend notified the officer it could be worth something major. Something so old, and so historic, and in such good condition is surely worth a bundle, and it was eventually sold by the Mile High Card Company for an eye-popping $61,000.
I’ll be back in a bit; I'm going to go look through all my old junk. If I find something pricey, the article ends here.
Game Boy
It shouldn't really come as a surprise the original Game Boy is worth a lot, but you have to take care that it's still in the original packaging, or was only available as a limited edition. Take the “Nintendo Game Boy Color Pokemon Center Hong Kong Limited Edition Pikachu,” which, in May 2019, was on sale at eBay for $8,000 in unopened packaging.
The Game Boy quickly became the must-have toy when it was released in 1989, and came bundled with Tetris – another piece of retro video game tech that has a high price.
Vintage bands tees
If there's a market for old beer cans and cereal boxes, you can bet vintage band shirts command a high price. They serve as bookmarks in the annals of music history, such as The Beatles' 1966 “Butcher” album cover, which was immediately withdrawn, which made it to a t-shirt in the 1970s, eventually selling on eBay for $595.
An original 1987 Guns N' Roses t-shirt from their Appetite for Destruction European tour sold for over a thousand dollars, and the most valuable item is a Nirvana In Utero tour shirt given to the crew who helped, which went for almost seven thousand big ones.
Vintage Microphones
We doubt you have one of these hanging around in your home since most of the singing we do is in the car or the shower. But if you happen to have a real piece of retro microphone, you could be sitting on a sudden cash flow. Exceptionally rare pieces such as the Neumann U-47 from the 1940s can, in fact, be worth tens of thousands of dollars, and one on eBay recently sold for $9,999.
Of course, a microphone in poor condition – or the wrong model – is probably not even worth a hundred dollars, but there's always a chance.