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Sep 10^th, 2003 at 12:59pm

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Greetings, folks!

I've recently begun a collection of airline pilot visor caps. So far I have caps from Eastern Airlines, TWA, Aeroflot and Ansett. When I attended an airline memorabilia show in Newark, N.J., a few days ago, I was surprised to see an Eastern cap badge on sale for $320! I paid far, far less for an Eastern mint-in-box cap with the badge. Does anyone here also collect such caps? If so, where do you buy them? eBay? Collectible Web sites? Etc. ...

Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 1:04pm

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Ya know, I don't collect the caps, but I've been thinking for quite some time about getting into the airline memorabilia community by starting a collection myself. Perhaps I'll do just that. Thanks for the inspiration, and leave the good stuff for me!

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Reply #2 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 1:17pm

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i dont collect the caps or badges. but i do keep the tickets from my flights

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Reply #3 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 3:05pm

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My advice is to keep everything from your flights -- tickets, brochures, barf bags (yes, even barf bags, they are in demand!), etc. airline-issue postcards are also sought after. it's quite a niche. Obviously, items from defunct airlines are more valuable.

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Reply #4 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 3:13pm

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Would you believe that while I was working for Continental, I had no idea this market even existed? Seriously, I could have retired by now with all the crap I had access to! LOL

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Reply #5 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 3:54pm

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i collect scale models...once i bought a CityBird MD-11 and a few months later they went bankrupted. later i heard on the news, collectors were willing to pay almost 400 Euros for a model! but i still have mine...waiting on my desk for take off (at least that's how it looks like)...8)

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Reply #6 - Sep 11^th, 2003 at 6:05am

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How'd u get an Ansett one - that would be very very expensive now.

I don't collect anything Wink

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Reply #7 - Sep 11^th, 2003 at 8:44am

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Speaking of Ansett,they auctioned off a lot of stuff. Among the listed items were some pilots' seats. We laughed at the time when someone suggested I could set one up here in front of the screen and pretend to be a 'real' pilot. There were caps and jackets listed as well.

Didn't go to the auction,wish I had now Roll Eyes

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Reply #8 - Sep 11^th, 2003 at 9:18pm

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One of the things which I consider very valuable from the Airline industry, and I make use of very regularily is the medium which they utilize to operate their carriers in....... Wink

.........without which, they would only be a trucking company !
............in fact, I'm thinking of starting up a collection of

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to be of great value at a later time in my life.......... Roll Eyes