One is for its resale value today, one is just for you to have and never sell.
Resell: A Picasso
To keep: Paul Newman Daytona Rolex.
Resell: Stock in a few of the hot companies when they first started.
Amazon, Google, Apple, Walmart, etc.
Keep: A Van Gogh painting
Resell - An Imperial Faberge' Egg
To Keep - An Imperial Faberge' Egg
The Soviet Union sold so much Faberge' and jewelry at the end of the 20's and early 30's to raise money. If you are not familiar with what was purchased by Armand Hammer and sold in department stores during that time it I fascinating to see what was sold and for how little, (although it was during the depression.)
https://www.artandantiquesmag.com/faberge-collection/
1. A lottery ticket
2. Stocks in Amazon, Google, Apple, and Netflix bought with the money I won in the lottery.
To all you people who want to buy stock and think you are going to make trillions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyyqoHCkw9I
Where are you going to get money to buy things in the past? I guess if you're not going very far back in the past it would be easy enough to find correctly-dated money from the current circulation, but I'd want to go back to 1969, walk into a Chrysler dealership, and order a brand new Dodge Charger R/T with a 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual transmission. Finding several thousand dollars' worth of pre-1970 money in the current circulation would be next to impossible.
I'm guessing the time travel machine is staffed with a beuro-de-change.
or you take lump of gold back to the invention of banks , weigh it in ,
put it in a long term account to get interest ,
that way on subsequent trips you can withdraw the correct currency
"or you take lump of gold back to the invention of banks , weigh it in ,
put it in a long term account to get interest ,"
That's outside the parameters of the question though. Also, it would be very expensive. Just one ounce of gold will cost you $2,020 right now, and I don't know what it was worth when the first US banks appeared, but by 1969 one ounce of gold was only worth about $40. A base model 1969 Dodge Charger cost around $4,000 new, and an R/T with the very expensive (and therefore, very rare) 426 Hemi option was around $7,000.
Not counting the probable difficulties in even finding a bank that survived from the early 1700s until 1969, and with trying to collect interest on something that's been in the bank for far longer than a human lifespan, there's also this problem with the idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
From 1933 to 1974, you couldn't legally own gold; not a significant amount of it anyway.
Idk about the exact item, but I'd buy something that's relatively cheap and easy to access in the past and is priceless today, like a comic book, a licensed lunchbox for some movie, or a video game. You know, something quite easy to buy and to carry.
shareEUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA...I WILL SELL EUROPE.
shareHow about I go back to the early 1980s, and buy stock in either Microsoft or Apple! And get some top-quality American turquoise.
Good American turquoise is nearly mined out, and the high-quality stones have become fantastically expensive. A ring I bought for $40 back around 1990 is now worth a thousand or two, and it's not even a great stone. So yeah, I'd like some really good turquoise to keep, or maybe give as gifts to people I really like, and not to sell.
Interesting about the turquoise. I had no idea. I need to tell my friend who has collected Southwest jewelry for decades.
shareDo tell your friend! Something may be worth real money, if they're willing to part with it.
shareI will certainly do that. She has some serious pieces. I remember a squash blossom necklace she would wear that stole every show.
shareYes, "Old Pawn" jewelry can be worth a lot, but individual stones may also be worth more than you'd think. The thing a I love about American turquoise is its variability, it comes in many variations of blue and green, and can be veined with brown, gray, black, or dark red inclusions. Certain mines produced specific kinds of stones, and a lot of mines that produced distinctive stones have long since been finished.
For instance, Lander Blue Turquoise has very fine black veining, they're unique and lovely stones, and there haven't been any more found since the 1970s or 1980s. Good stones are now so valuable that jewelers sometimes set them in gold, while other good stones are always set in sterling silver.
https://www.used.forsale/sh-img/LanderTurquoise_lander%2Bturquoise.jpg
I have never heard of or seen the Lander Blue turquoise. Distinctive! Thank you for sharing this information.
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