Where are tomorrow's antiques today?

[flobadob]

As anyone who sees much daytime TV, the world is full of quality items from the past which have either held their value throughout the years or are now worth much more.
I'm just wondering what sort of items that are being made today will we be looking at and still admiring in 150 years time?

[boxtops]

I wish we'd known then what would be valuable now - I had a full clockwork Hornby train set, when I didn't use it any more, after a while it went in the shed, and got throughly rusty, so my dad threw it out. If only.... I had a Mobo metal riding horse too, I bet that would have been a collector's item by now!

[DTCwordfan]

David Linley's carpentry

http://www.davidlinley.com/

[scotman]

If I knew that I wouldn't tell anyone!

[Mosaic]

Objects that hold their value tend to be well-made and of good quality materials. Sadly, not a huge number of the consumer goods that reach us nowdays touch both those bases. In addition, examples of iconic products tend to age well if you keep them.
But the thing about antiques is they are ultimately the bits that survive from the past. If you have the space to hang on to all your toys, clothes, games, furniture and books then you're bound to bag some winners.
But most of us wore out our Biba, broke our Hornby, spilled hot drinks on our 60s teak sideboards and didn't have the staff to put them away in the spare stables.
So the rarity defines the surviving stuff as 'valuable antiques'.
I remember the junk shops on Regent Road i Salford in the 1960s where they were practically giving away mahogany furniture cos it was unfashionable and nobody wanted it. If you could have filled a van then and stored it, you'd be quids in now.

[RAV1D]

I think if some one had a first iphone or ipod touch in good condition still in 150 years it may be worth a bit but it's hard to say when it wouldn't switch on by then and I doubt you could still get a battery that worked and fit in one,Same with a lot of technology items of today. items in this day and age are made cheaper by production in bulk loads and not to the quality of antiques of the past for example a table from Ikea in 150years will still look as cheap as the day it was made but a Victorian hand crafted table that had a lot of time and skill made into it still shows the quality today even with knocks and scrapes over the years.

[Mosaic]

I think you're right Rav
It's a question of either beng able to afford the 'known' hand-made products now, or having the confidence to find and hang on to them for yourself irrespective of whether the arty crowd acknowledge them.
It's unlikely that mass-produced consumer goods available at the mo will stand the test of time.

[maclarencat]

The thing about antiques and collectables is the most unlikely items become desireable. Who would have guessed in the 60's that Troika pottery in Cornwall which was bought as a holiday souvenir would go on to become so collectable or that the Wade whimsies we bought would become collectable. So in years to come maybe it will be the cheap plastic toys from mcDonalds if we knew we would be Millionaires Oh yes this time next year we could all be millionaires .

[Dolly1308]

There is a man in Australia who started collecting plastic toys out of his cereal boxes years ago ,now worth a lot of money .

[maggiebee]

Believe there are people who collect the McDonalds "give away" toys you get with happy meals?

[atalanta]

All hand-made musical instruments.
Apparently, especially Harps

[4getmenot]

my mum has alot of the macdonalds toys all in original packaging. thats when you could just buy the toy, but I think they make you buy the happy meal too now