{"id":1288,"date":"2013-05-27T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2013-07-01T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:33:09","slug":"the-date-niters-and-the-advanced-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/the-date-niters-and-the-advanced-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Date-Niters and The “Advanced Collector”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"date-niters_front\"<\/a>The other night I was browsing through some of the Disney postcard related sales on eBay and came across an “Elliot Brothers<\/a>” card showing the band playing at the Disneyland Date Nite. \u00a0\u00a0What was most remarkable about this sale was the fact that the card was really rough, missing a significant chunk off one corner, and yet it managed to get $128 when all was said and \"date-niters_back\"<\/a>done. \u00a0The card did come from the personal estate of the trumpeter in the band, Cappy Lewis (pictured on the center of the card), who apparently worked for the Disney Studio for quite a while. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This got me thinking about a somewhat tangential topic. \u00a0Two terms that one often hears in collecting circles are “Advanced\u00a0Collector” and “Important Collection”. \u00a0Today I wanted to give some brief thoughts on the first term: \u00a0“Advanced Collector”.<\/p>\n

What makes someone an “advanced” collector?? \u00a0I have to confess…this term usually makes me roll my eyes because too\u00a0often it has everything to do with $$. \u00a0An “advanced” collector will shell out a million bucks for an Action Comics #1, or $50K for a first edition Hobbit, or whatever. \u00a0But that really isn’t it, is it? \u00a0An advanced collector, in my humble opinion, is someone who has significant historical and or encyclopedic knowledge about a specific hobby. \u00a0I certainly do not count myself as an advanced\u00a0collector,\u00a0but I have had the privelege to know a few, mostly in the comic book arena. \u00a0People who can site facts regarding the hobby that seem so obscure, and yet are important facts that are common knowledge to them.<\/p>\n

In this hobby…clearly there are enough people out there who know enough about Disneyland postcards to realize that this Date-Niters card is really rare. \u00a0And so, they went after it. \u00a0In doing so, they educate the rest of us. Next time one shows up…whenever that will be…we can be ready! \u00a0And that really is one of the key purposes of this site…to educate and inform while conveying the fun of the hobby at the same time. \u00a0I hope you find that to be true!<\/p>\n

Until next time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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