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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 92387, member: 55&quot;]I&#039;ll agree with the comments that &quot;made to be collectibles&quot; generally aren&#039;t.</p><p>There also are tides or trends in most areas of real antiques/collectibles.</p><p>I sometimes visit toy shows, and one sad area is that of vintage cast-iron toys.&nbsp; I see dealers with tables full of cast-iron toys that used to be selling for $300-$400 apiece, with no buyers at all regardless of price.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It appears that the vintage toy market is largely driven by older folks who remember what they played with as kids.&nbsp; Today the people who played with cast-iron toys have mostly passed on.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Those who played with die-cast and tinplate are still with us, so that market is still fairly strong; but we can expect that as those folks pass, that market too will collapse[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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