Nothing is trash
Old books, newspapers, money, stamps and old porcelain have become "old stories". Now, collectors' hobby is to buy bronze pots, stone mortars, beer and soft drink bottles, birth certificates, marriage certificates, ID cards, voter cards, pawn certificates, pre-1975 invoices and even poems, wedding photo albums, souvenir photos of... total strangers.
Saigon - My Tho railway stock issued in 1884
What to buy? Mr. NKN, former editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in Saigon, looked surprised and disbelieving, asking me to "post" him some pictures as evidence.
Family declaration form of Saigon Capital
Gia Long High School for Girls Student Card
It can be said that nowadays, anything old can be sold. Especially old items from before 1975, which are considered as discarded items, are now being sold on websites at sky-high prices. For example, some wartime military helmets. In the past, people in the countryside used the cardboard plastic helmet as a water bucket, and the steel helmet was used as a tool to stab bananas to feed pigs. Now people separate the plastic helmet and the steel helmet and sell them for 2-4 million VND each, depending on their quality.
Elementary school diploma 1953
Elementary school diploma 1956
High school diploma
Typed in 1955
Typed in 1969
Typing Certificate 1965
A few years ago, people were surprised to see book lovers willing to spend 5-7 million VND to buy books signed by famous authors. In an auction on social networks, someone even agreed to spend 20 million VND to buy a book called "The Book Lover" signed by Mr. Vuong.
Sinco sewing machine invoice 1952
Sinco sewing machine invoice 1958
Now, that is normal! Because there are many old books being sold for prices ranging from 5 - 10 million VND to 30 - 40 million VND, especially history and research books by famous authors such as Ta Chi Dai Truong, Phan Khoang, Binh Nguyen Loc, Toan Anh...
Tombola lottery ticket issued in 1931
Tombola lottery ticket issued in 1959
Lottery ticket issued in 1952
Sheet music published before 1975 cost only a few thousand a few years ago, but some people still said it was expensive. Now, the average price is from 150,000 to 300,000 VND, but some people sell it for 500,000 to 700,000 VND, even 1.5 million VND/sheet. Especially like the sheet Chieu mua bien gioi , the seller asked for up to 2 million VND.
Sheet music is priced at 1.5 million VND
Sheet music is priced at 1.5 million VND
Very strange collection
The strangest thing is that there are things that seem to be discarded but are still being sold and sold at very high prices. Specifically: old student notebooks, with writing on them, if they are found to be taking up space in the house, people used to weigh them and give them to scrap collectors for a few thousand dong per kilo.
Press card
Nowadays, such notebooks are sold for 20,000 - 70,000 VND, depending on the cover image. There are old notebooks sold for 100,000 - 200,000 VND, if the front cover has a picture of a beautiful young woman drawn by artists Le Trung, Hoang Luong, or the back cover has comics such as Thach Sanh - Ly Thong, The Legend of Betel and Areca, Tam - Cam...
Old student notebooks with beautiful covers are being sold for 50,000 - 200,000 VND.
Old student notebooks with beautiful covers are being sold for between 50,000 and 200,000 VND.
In previous years, lottery players collected lottery tickets issued before 1975 for 50,000 - 70,000 VND per ticket. Perhaps this source has now dried up, so people are now playing lottery tickets newly issued in the 1980s and 1990s for 10,000 - 50,000 VND per ticket, depending on the theme. Tombola lottery tickets issued before 1975 are priced at 600,000 - 700,000 VND per ticket, but are very rare.
Books with sky-high prices
Books with sky-high prices
Books with sky-high prices
Books with sky-high prices
In the past, the most popular old items for sale were kerosene lamps, irons, watches, glasses, Guigoz milk cans... Now, Tiger beer bottles, 33 beer, BGI soft drink bottles, Phuong Toan soft drink bottles, Vinh Hao mineral water bottles, and even huge old cowhide jars and water containers are also for sale!
Southern Echo newspaper sells for 4.5 million VND
Old documents from before 1975 are also a type of goods that are sold at quite high prices. In particular, invoices for buying gold, radios, cassettes, televisions, sewing machines, watches, bicycles, etc., average from 100,000 to 300,000 VND/item. Some types of invoices are rare, such as the famous "gold leaf shop" Nguyen The Tai, the famous gold shop Nguyen The Nang on Le Thanh Ton Street, Saigon.
Guigoz milk can with label still costs up to 1 million VND
Then there are Odo watch receipts, Singer and Sinco sewing machines, Denon television receipts… The oldest is probably the Saigon-My Tho railway stock, which someone is selling for 9 million VND. Especially the personal tax papers from the French colonial period are worth around 1 million VND.
Vinh Hao water bottle shell nearly 600,000 VND
It is also very strange that personal documents sold before 1975 are very expensive. For example, student ID cards, student ID cards, school reports, academic certificates, typing certificates, elementary school diplomas, ID cards, voter cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, cohabitation certificates, driver's licenses, vehicle registration cards, family declarations, house purchase and sale papers, land lease agreements, telephone subscription contracts, hydrometer installation contracts... are all bought.
Old oil lamps are expensive.
Old lamps are expensive.
In addition, papers from the subsidy period were also collected, such as: food purchase books, household registration books, temporary residence registration books, receipt books, receipt books for foreign money. Some "unique" items such as bus tickets, fabric stamps, food coupons "for childbirth", and gasoline coupons were sold for a few hundred thousand VND each. The strangest thing was that electricity and water bills, prescriptions, and medical examination books were also sold.
As for weekly and daily newspapers published before 1975 in Saigon, because they were "unique", their prices for collectors were very high. A few years ago, a large-format 4 or 8-page daily newspaper cost about 40,000 - 80,000 VND. Now, people are asking for 400,000 - 700,000 VND, even 1 million VND/paper. Someone is selling the Tieng Doi newspaper, edited by journalist Tran Tan Quoc, for 4.5 million VND. Therefore, the spring magazines of the 1950s - 1960s are very rare now, so their prices are sky-high.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/thu-suu-tap-do-co-doc-la-gia-tri-khong-tuong-185241223102018706.htm
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