Celebrities Treasure Collecters
Tom Hanks typewriter collection. Tom Hanks secret collection of typewriters has become such an obsession he has to pay a fortune to ship them from all corners of the world.The Oscar winner boasts a haul of more than 100 manual, portable typewriters. He says, "(I collect them) from the 1930s until they stopped making them." And his hobby has cost him a small fortune in postage: "I bought a $5 typewriter from Australia that cost me $85 to ship."
Reese Witherspoon collects antique linen, Reese's Antiques sells antiques which include fine quality furniture, silver, porceloin, paintings, jewelry and decorative accessories. We have been in business in Philadelphia since 1903.
Babe Ruth's baseball bat sells for $1.3 million, As incredible as it may sound, the old baseball bat that Babe Ruth used in hitting a home run in the very first game at Yankee Stadium, sold for nearly .3 million at an auction recently.
Sotheby’s auction house sold the bat on December 2, 2006 at their auction. No other baseball bat in history has ever come close to selling for as much as this one used by the immortal Babe Ruth.
In fact, the second highest bat that has ever been sold was one that went for 7,610 in 2001. It was a bat used by the infamous “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. You may remember him as being one of the players who were banned from baseball for their part in the famous Chicago White Sox scandal in 1919.
Who purchased the Babe’s bat? At the moment the buyer is not known. It is believed that the person is a supposed collector and hobbyist of baseball collectables. What may be even more incredible is that a spokesman for the buyer told reporters afterwards that they were prepared to pay an even higher amount for the baseball bat.
In a bit or irony, the bat was used to hit the home run on April 18, 1923, in a game against who else, but their arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox. What is even more ironic is the fact that the bat sold for what it nearly cost to build Yankee Stadium at the time. The original Yankee Stadium was built at a cost of .4 million dollars. Hard to imagine isn’t it?
How did the Babe Ruth baseball bat survive the test of time to get to this point? The story goes that Babe Ruth’s agent, a woman by the name of Christy Walsh, originally gave the bat away in a home run contest many years ago. The player who won the bat held onto it through his death, and in his will, gave it to his personal nurse. She decided to try and sell the bat and use the funds to open up a cafe that she has always dreamed of doing. With a little help from others, Sotheby’s became involved and the rest is now history.
Although this is the most expensive bat ever sold, it is not the most expensive price that has been paid for a piece of baseball memorabilia. The record holder? Currently, the record is million for the baseball that Mark McGwire hit for home run #70 in 1998. The buyer was a comic book artist by the name of Todd McFarlane.
jay leno car collection, Although Jay Leno is most famous for his interviewing and comedic skills, he is also an avid car enthusiast. According to Forbes.com, Leno has more than 50 sports and antique cars, spread out among three large garages, in addition to as many motorcycles. Not only does he like collecting cars, but he also takes pleasure in restoring antique automobiles to their original luster. In fact, he makes it a point not to own any modern cars, which makes his collection that much more impressive.
Possibly the most notable aspect of Jay Leno's cars is that he doesn't just display them in a show room, as though they were fit for a museum. His garages are fully functional, and he takes pride in driving each of his cars on a regular basis, alternating between them on any given day. He also enjoys taking his various motorcycles out for a spin around Burbank, and he's paraded his vehicles for many publicity photos and charitable organizations.
In fact, Jay Leno managed to get $360,000 for one Harley-Davidson motorcycle in 2001, in an effort to raise money for the 9/11 victims. The bike was signed by various celebrities, and did so well that he repeated this charitable act in 2004 for the Indian Ocean Earthquake victims (raising over $800,000), and again in 2004 for the Hurricane Katrina survivors (raising more than $1 million). No car is too expensive for Leno, and no vehicle is out of reach, except for cars he considers unworthy, such as Model Ts and modern vehicles.
And their are some more celebrities who collect other unique things like Claudia Schiffer insect collection, angelina jolie collects knives and first edition books, Gerard Heintzman crystal edition sold for $3.22 million, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and bass guitars, Cage collects vintage comic books, Napoleon's sword sells for $6.4 million, robin williams collects military memorabilia, Museum of Glass, Maya Angelou and garden sculptures, most expensive antiques roadshow item 5 chinese cups $1.5 million, Nicole Kidman ancient coin collection, Tom Hanks typewriter collection, Reese Witherspoon collects antique linen, Babe Ruth's baseball bat sells for $1.3 million, jay leno car collection, Demi Moore collects monkeys,
