Nothing is trash
Old books, newspapers, money, stamps and porcelain have become "old stories". Now, collectors' hobbies include buying 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
Buy it for what? Mr. NKN, former editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in Saigon, seemed surprised and did not believe me, asking me to "post" him some pictures as evidence.
Saigon Capital Family Declaration Form
Gia Long Girls' High School Student Card
It can be said that nowadays, anything old can be sold. Especially old things from before 1975, which were 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 banana-smashing tool 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.
Primary school diploma 1953
Primary school diploma 1956
Junior 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 copy of "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 tickets 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 asks for up to 2 million VND.
The sheet music is priced at 1.5 million VND.
The 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 sold and sold at very high prices. Specifically: old student notebooks, already written, if found to be taking up space in the house, people used to weigh them and give them to the 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 a comic book 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 now this source has run out, so people are playing lottery tickets newly issued in the 1980s - 1990s for 10,000 - 50,000 VND per ticket, depending on the theme. Tombola lottery tickets issued before 1975 cost 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, clocks, 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 is selling 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... average from 100,000 - 300,000 VND/sheet. 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 price tag up to 1 million VND
Then there are Odo watch receipts, Singer and Sinco sewing machine receipts, Denon television receipts… The oldest is probably the Saigon-My Tho railway stock certificate, 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 costs nearly 600,000 VND
It is also very strange that personal documents from before 1975 are sold at a very high price. For example, student ID cards, student ID cards, transcripts, certificates of education, typing certificates, elementary school diplomas, ID cards, voter ID cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, cohabitation certificates, driver's licenses, vehicle registration cards, family declarations, house purchase and sale papers, land lease contracts, telephone subscription contracts, hydrometer installation contracts, etc. 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, books for receiving goods and money sent from abroad. Some "unique" items such as bus tickets, fabric stamps, food coupons "for childbirth", and gasoline coupons were sold for a few hundred thousand VND per sheet. The strangest thing was that electricity and water bills, prescriptions, and medical examination books were also sold.
As for the 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 "screaming" 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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