00:00 My name is Mark Monteiro.
00:01 I'm the founder of LCG Auctions.
00:03 We specialize in high-end pop culture collectibles.
00:06 Today, we're gonna talk through five collectibles
00:08 ranging from $3,000 to $60,000.
00:12 (upbeat music)
00:14 This is the very first Super Mario Brothers
00:27 released on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
00:30 This particular example would appraise for around $10,000.
00:33 This is a rare hang tab edition.
00:35 The back of it has a hang tab that's perforated,
00:39 which is different from the subsequent models
00:41 that came out, and collectors find
00:42 the hang tab very collectible.
00:44 This one is graded by CGC,
00:46 which is also a comic book grader.
00:48 They've graded some of the most valuable comic books.
00:50 Anything 9.0 or greater
00:53 is considered exceptional condition.
00:55 Super Mario Brothers is the most popular video game
00:58 of all time.
00:58 There's been over 40 million copies sold.
01:01 Super Mario Brothers revived the video game industry
01:04 after Atari, the video game console, was starting to fail.
01:08 When the Nintendo Entertainment System came out,
01:10 Mario in particular,
01:12 it created a whole new level of interest.
01:14 The Holy Grail of Super Mario
01:16 is a 9.8 sealed hang tab edition.
01:20 It sold for $2 million.
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01:26 This is a Sega Game Gear released in 1991.
01:30 It's the very first release,
01:31 retailed at $149.99 at launch.
01:35 This is around $12,500.
01:38 This example is what we call Hobby Fresh.
01:41 It's never gone to market before,
01:42 and it'll be interesting to see where it ends up.
01:44 This grade is the Holy Grail of Sega Game Gears.
01:48 It's graded by VGA.
01:50 It's a VGA 85.
01:51 Game Gear was Sega's answer to Nintendo's Game Boy.
01:55 The Game Boy was black and white.
01:57 The Sega Game Gear was in color.
01:59 Unlike Game Boy,
02:00 you could actually play Game Gear in the dark
02:02 because of the backlit screen.
02:04 The Sega Game Gear had popular titles
02:05 like Sonic the Hedgehog and Streets of Rage.
02:08 Over 10.5 million units were sold of the Sega Game Gear.
02:11 It was one of the most popular,
02:13 portable gaming systems for years.
02:15 The Sega Game Gear is known for ripping through batteries,
02:18 but there was also a TV tuner
02:20 that you could put on the top,
02:22 allowed you to watch television stations
02:24 on the portable console.
02:25 This is the very first release of Ghostbusters
02:31 on VHS from 1985.
02:33 It retailed for $79.99.
02:36 $79.99 was a very high price,
02:39 but VHS was in its infancy,
02:41 and the tapes were just very high.
02:43 It's dropped down a bit,
02:44 but it's still in the four figures.
02:46 The first edition Ghostbusters has some unique features.
02:49 The logo on the front is an embossed logo.
02:53 On the back, it also has what we call waterfall watermarks.
02:57 These are vertical RCA white watermarks
03:00 that resemble a waterfall.
03:01 VHS as a collectible is relatively new
03:04 in the four and five figure numbers.
03:07 Some videotapes that have sold for a lot of money
03:09 include Superman Black Box Edition.
03:12 This was a Betamax tape that sold for $40,000,
03:15 and some of the early release Rockies
03:18 have sold for significant amounts of money as well.
03:21 This is an Apple iPod, first release,
03:27 first generation from October 2001.
03:30 It retailed for $399.
03:32 The last one that sold, sold for $29,000.
03:35 The first edition iPod is extremely rare
03:38 in factory-sealed condition.
03:39 It's become highly collectible through the years.
03:41 In collectibles, we have something called scarcity.
03:44 Just because something is rare
03:46 doesn't make it collectible.
03:47 Scarce factors in demand,
03:50 so something scarce is oftentimes collectible.
03:53 This is most definitely the holy grail iPod,
03:56 the first release, the five gigabyte version
03:58 in factory-sealed.
04:00 It has a black and white screen.
04:02 It utilizes buttons as opposed to a click wheel,
04:04 and it stores around 1,000 songs.
04:07 Apple had been struggling up until the early 2000s,
04:10 and this was the first handheld device
04:13 that really helped the company turn a corner,
04:15 and it really launched Apple's handheld division
04:18 to new heights.
04:19 This is a first-release iPhone from 2007.
04:24 This model cost $599.
04:28 We have it between 50 and $60,000.
04:31 This model's eight gigabytes.
04:33 For the internet, it used something called the Edge Network.
04:35 It was a very slow internet service,
04:38 and that was kind of the main difference
04:40 for this first model compared to the subsequent models.
04:43 Factory-sealed means the seal has not been broken.
04:46 It's not been opened up.
04:47 You may have an iPhone at your house
04:49 and think it could be worth a lot of money.
04:51 The reality is it's probably not.
04:53 There's a lot of them in the population,
04:54 and for that reason, they're not worth very much.
04:57 Steve Jobs introduced the phone at Macworld in January 2007.
05:02 There was a lot of hype around it.
05:04 The most expensive item that we have sold
05:06 is a first-release iPhone from 2007.
05:09 It was the rare four-gigabyte model.
05:12 The four-gigabyte was discontinued after just two months in,
05:15 and it went for $190,000,
05:18 an item that would just be a holy grail
05:19 that we have not seen.
05:21 If we were to have an unopened iPhone
05:23 with a signature from Steve Jobs,
05:25 the sky would be the limit on something like that.
05:27 I've heard that he actually gave a signed edition iPad
05:32 to his inner circle.
05:34 There are counterfeits that enter the market
05:36 from time to time.
05:37 Collectors have to be very careful
05:39 to make sure that all sides of the iPhone are shown.
05:42 The seal follows a very detailed pattern.
05:45 The use of the box underneath the seal,
05:48 it should be in mint condition.
05:49 The seams along the side are very thin.
05:51 Those that are resealed,
05:53 the counterfeiters never tend to get the seal right.
05:55 My advice to those looking to get into collectibles
06:02 is to collect what you like,
06:03 do your homework in terms of pricing,
06:06 previous sales history.
06:07 Some of the stuff is very, very expensive.
06:09 So you want a good amount of knowledge before you dive in.
06:12 (clap)
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