Millennium Collectors News

Predictions from an Authority on Limited Editions

Rosie Wells, in her Jan 5 Rosie's Weekly Collectors' Gazette insert in Antique Trader, reports the following:

Many of you have collected Millennium offerings from many of the collectibles companies. Some items may go up in value quickly, but it all depends on how scarce the supply was. Actually, the value will be affected by who bought these pieces. If most were sold to individuals who bought only one, then those items will be hard to locate (most folks who buy only one of a collectible will hold onto it for their collection and the memory). If secondary-market folks bought up several for speculation and too many are bought for resell, that will make the supply easily available for awhile and the value will remain somewhat stable until all are sold. As I see it, there just aren't the secondary-market folks out there now as there were in the past 10 years. As I see it now, only the very scarce Millennium pieces of art will be sought after today. I really can't speculate for now what those pieces are. It will be the new collectors of the future who may be the seekers of these pieces, as we today purchased what we wanted. We old-timers will be the ones to have the Millennium collectibles to sell down the road.